During Hadassah’s July convention in Hollywood, Florida, a hotel staff member told me in an elevator that he had been in the auditorium during several sessions and

There is always serious work at a Hadassah convention, but delegates often leave feeling they have been on vacation, or at a spiritual retreat. Over

Jerusalem has been in the news lately, and as usual the image much of the media projects bears little resemblance to the city most of

The Midrash tells us that all Jews—those living at the time and all the generations that would come after—were present at Sinai. This story touches

Just as American political leaders often try to divine how the Founding Fathers would have viewed a modern issue, so do Hadassah presidents try to

Much of the Bible is devoted to a short stretch of time. Roughly 20 percent of the Tanakh and about 80 percent of the Five

Those of us in the pro-Israel community often complain that the media focus on Israel is too negative, always concentrating on conflict. But we spend

It was an extraordinary time, it was a normal time. During a 48-hour period last July, surgical teams at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem