Hadassah and I were born within months of each other on opposite sides of the globe. It, of course, was as unaware of the infant

Jerusalemites are a conservative bunch. The now popular Knesset building was disliked for a decade following its 1966 inauguration, and the jury is still out

Henrietta Szold's final resting place is faithfully maintained by members of the Sayd family.

In Connecticut, where I grew up, my mother and my Aunt Lucile were forever “going to Hadassah.” I was not sure what they did in

At age 14, Frieda Cooper was drafted to the role of secretary at her mother’s Zionist meetings in Boston. She dutifully attended every gathering to

When I was little, my mother told me that she would always remember where she was when she heard that President Franklin Roosevelt had died.

Although I can’t remember when I first heard the name Hadassah, my real interest in the Women’s Zionist Organization of America started in my midtwenties

Just in time for Hadassah’s 100th birthday, two academic presses have released in-depth appraisals of the significant roles played by Hadassah in American Jewish and