In this issue of Hadassah Magazine, we commemorate just some of what we have accomplished over the last 100 years—and all that we are still doing

In Connecticut, where I grew up, my mother and my Aunt Lucile were forever “going to Hadassah.” I was not sure what they did in

At age 14, Frieda Cooper was drafted to the role of secretary at her mother’s Zionist meetings in Boston. She dutifully attended every gathering to

When I was little, my mother told me that she would always remember where she was when she heard that President Franklin Roosevelt had died.

Although I can’t remember when I first heard the name Hadassah, my real interest in the Women’s Zionist Organization of America started in my midtwenties

Just in time for Hadassah’s 100th birthday, two academic presses have released in-depth appraisals of the significant roles played by Hadassah in American Jewish and

In hindsight, history always looks inevitable. When we look at Hadassah’s 100-year saga, we see the linear version, showing the founding meeting at Temple Emanu-El

If the Hadassah century had a scrapbook, its first page would show women gathered on February 24, 1912, shortly before Purim, to found an organization