According to humorist Ephraim Kishon, when Israelis are asked לַעֲמד‭ ‬בַּתּר (la-amod ba-tor), to stand in line, there are always a “privileged few” who consider

Readers share their thoughts on recent articles, from the pope to Leonard Cohen, and debate the spelling of the word mentch.

Hadassah’s primary mission has always been in Israel. But if our eyes have always been on Jerusalem, our headquarters have been in New York, the city that gave…

If you took a poll today asking American Jews to name their favorite religious leader, the answer might well be Pope Francis.

A guesthouse in an Albanian village offered the tourists a comfortable place to rest. But it also sparked a meditation on a very personal and intense Jewish relationship…

Writer David Zulberg turns to ancient physicians like Maimonides for weight loss advice.

Communities across the United States are devising different means of helping people find their place in their synagogue.

Immune modulation of the liver, a field that rapidly went global, was born in the early 2000s, when Dr. Rifaat Safadi, an Arab-Israeli gastroenterologist from the Hadassah–Hebrew University…