Hadassah Magazine mourns the passing of Charlotte Jacobson, one of the towering figures of the Zionist movement, who died May 14 in Florida. In addition to

“The Jewish religion provides an exquisitely structured approach to mourning.”—Rabbi Maurice Lamm, The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning (Jonathan David Publishers). Everyone observing aveilut, the traditional

The Book of Ruth, viewed by Goethe as the most beautiful “little whole” in the Hebrew Bible, is the special reading for Shavuot, which begins

The desire to serve his country developed early in this Conservative rabbi, the Navy and Marine Corps’ highest-ranking Jewish chaplain. Not many bar mitzva boys know

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

A new program has opened in Jerusalem, one that combines the best of Hadassah’s medical school with elite Army training. There are 50 of them

Though George was ‘only a boy’ when French police forced his family out of their apartment, the experience never left him. 

Spring at last, and time to celebrate Yom Ha’atzma’ut (Israel Independence Day), Yom Yerushalayim and Shavuot. Time, too, to take pride in Hadassah’s medical rescue