Defining Moments

• Letter from Jerusalem: Hadassah Horizon 
  By Barbara Sofer
  What if Hadassah's founder, Henrietta Szold, came back to see us today? She would surely ask, "What's happened to Hadassah? What has it done?" 


• Letter from New York: Practical Revolutionaries 
  By Rahel Musleah
  We all know how Hadassah helped women and children in Israel,but what about its contributions to women—and Judaism—in America? 


• The Arts: Photo Shop 
  By Leah Finkelshteyn
  Hadassah College Jerusalem's diverse student body—Jews and non-Jews, sabras and immigrants, Russians and Ethiopians—is not only a snapshot of the city in which the school resides, but also of the richness of modern Israel.


• Commentary: Taking It Personally 
  By Gloria Goldreich
  Because of my longtime affiliation with Hadassah, both as a volunteer and a professional writer, I have always known that the organization is dedicated to pikuah nefesh, the saving of lives. 


• Letter from Everywhere: Medical Light Unto Nations 
  By Rachel Schwartzberg
  Dr. Mankuta, head of labor and delivery at Hadassah–Hebrew University Hospital at Ein Kerem, spent his vacation last year in the East Congo caring for rape victims, many of whom had become sex slaves.


• The Jewish Traveler: Jeremiah’s Neighbors 
  By Barbara Goldstein
  A Hadassah mission is not just about beautiful scenery, good food and great fun; it's about connecting with Israel and the marvelous works Hadassah has built there. 


• Family Matters: Mars and Venus Together 
  By Rachel Pomerance
  Hadassah members understand that their organization is more than a cause. It is a belief system, a shared experience—and a lot of fun.


• Letter from Ketura: Where the Local is Global 
  By Yosef Israel Abramowitz
  A family came to Kibbutz Ketura to reconnect and focus on personal goals. However, their time was spent working on world-changing projects.


• Season to Taste: Kitchen Zionism 
  Adeena Sussman
  In a nondescript room in downtown New York sit 13 boxes that reveal a very tasty slice of American Jewish life. 


• Medicine: Hospitals in Hard Times 
  By Wendy Elliman
  Financial difficulties have hit medical centers worldwide. Hadassah has not been immune but is weathering the storm with smart decision-making and perseverance. 

HADASSAH:
The Road to 100

As Hadassah marks its 98th anniversary and prepares for its centennial in 2012, Hadassah Magazine looks at how the world has changed because of the organization and the women who built it.

• Generations: Still Nursing After All These Years 
  Passing on their knowledge to a new generation, two Hadassah nurses are changing the way Israel looks at the unsung heroes of the medical profession. 


• President's Column: Hadassah’s Plymouth Rock 
  By Nancy Falchuk
  Just as American political leaders try to divine how the Founding Fathers would have viewed a modern issue, so do Hadassah presidents try to see today's projects and problems through the eyes of Henrietta Szold.


• Editor's Wrapup: A Century Note 
  By Alan M. Tigay
  On a long journey, it is not uncommon to stop short of your destination to reflect on where you have come and see your destination on the horizon. 


• Brief Reviews: Sefardim Who Never Forget 
  A 23-foot-wide canvas map depicts the world as a cartographer might have drawn it in 1492, when Jews were expelled from Spain. 


• Cut & Post 
  Hadassah's founder, Henrietta Szold, is one of 18 distinguished Americans featured in the National Museum of American Jewish History's Only in America® Gallery/ Hall of Fame


• Books: Can an atheist find love—and God? 
  36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction sports a long, off-putting title and lots of difficult to read paragraphs about the latest academic fashions, but it's also Rebecca Newberger Goldstein's most ambitious novel since her 1983 fictional debut The Mind-Body Problem. 


• Last Look: Daughters of Hadassah 
  Triple Take: Odelia, Donna and Nomi Orbaum (from left) have grown up with—and to some extent in—Hadassah Magazine. 


• Guide to the Arts 
  Your source for currents exhibits, theater and film across the United States. 


• Letters to the Editor: A Righteous Gentile; Disordered