The women sitting silently in the hospital waiting room are all riding the infertility roller coaster. Some tap on their phones, others read, most

It amazes me how brilliant Hadassah leaders were to begin their Zionist work in 1914 with a public health and medical “needs assessment” of the

Hadassah has thrived, and continues to thrive, because we have managed to remain relevant across the generations.

The first legal case one studies in Talmud class reads like a rather contemporary allegory. It involves two litigants invoking the principle of “finders, keepers.” Each petitioner, claiming…

I’m new at this. Well, not new at Israeli folk dancing but, after 40 years, I’m rusty. What is new for me is dancing at

I am sitting in the corner of the couch, and Fania Lavi is facing me in her wheelchair in her small apartment at an old-age home in Jerusalem.…

A flexible spaghetti-like tube, perhaps the width of 15 hairs, slides into a vein or artery and is pushed gently through a maze of blood-filled

Have you heard about the latest Hanukka miracle? Some bakeries in Israel are claiming that  סוּפְגָנִיּוֹת (sufganiyyot), jelly donuts, are healthful. We won’t go into