While the financial crisis has caused justifiable anxiety, many of us make the anxiety worse by focusing on short-term uncertainties, like what the stock market

Working with other organizations, Hadassah doctors are raising the number of circumcisions performed in Africa—not as religious practice, but as disease prevention. It is a

November is a month of remembrances: the anniversary of the 1947 United Nations vote to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab states and, this year,

Controversies used to be simple. Rabbis in Israel and the diaspora once argued over “Who is a Jew?” But after Israel’s High Rabbinic Court ruled

Natan Sharansky tells the story of how he first heard our name. During his imprisonment, he briefly shared a cell with a Communist Party official

The birth of twins at Hadassah who do not carry their mother’s mutated BRCA gene is not only a medical breakthrough, it offers hope for

The Talmud (Eruvin 65) suggests that a person is de­fined by what he carries in his pockets. Every Thanks­giving, I look into my pockets and

America is in the midst of a presidential election, and even though Hadassah Magazine does not endorse candidates,we are acutely aware that our readers are in­tensely active