My term as Hadassah national president began with a global pandemic and ends with Israel at war.

Rhoda Smolow writes her final magazine column as Hadassah’s national president.

Killing Jews is still possible, but not without consequences. Today, we have a nation and an army—and hospitals and friends around the world who support us.

More than 2,600 people have been critically injured and the Hadassah Medical Organization continues to treat many of the wounded from around the country.

In Israel, your neighbor may vote for a different party, speak a different language, make more noise than necessary—or become your patient, surgeon or kidney donor.

Israel is the difference between a young Jewish life threatened in the 1930s and today.

Israel’s existence altered the way the world looks at the Jewish people. It also altered the way we look at ourselves, in both pride and self-awareness.

Israel is the responsibility and the treasure of all its citizens and of the Jewish people worldwide.