Columns & Departments

Letter from Herzliya: All It Takes 
By Barry Rubin
It is no secret what Israel wants in a peace agreement with the Palestinians: It has been spelled out by Prime Minister Netanyahu and is endorsed by an Israeli consensus. more...

Letter from Jerusalem: Toward a Two-Leader Solution 
By Gershom Gorenberg
Some American Jews and Israelis see President Obama as less committed to Israel than previous presidents. That is a misreading. more...

A Chronicle of Jewish Crime Books: Figuring Out Who the Bad Guys Are 
By Zelda Shluker
This season’s stack of mystery books with either Jewish sleuths or Jewish stories is big enough to keep you reading through the rest of the summer. more...

President's Column: Renewal 
By Nancy Falchuk
There is always serious work at a Hadassah convention, but delegates often leave feeling they have been on vacation, or at a spiritual retreat. more...

Letter from Washington: Can They Work It Out? 
By David Makovsky
The leader of the free world and the leader of the Jewith state have an issue: They disagree on how to lead—and secure peace for Israel. more...

Interview: Tzipi Livni 
By Charley J. Levine
Tzipi Livni led the Kadima Party to a plurality victory in Israel’s 2009 Knesset election but became leader of the opposition after Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud—which garnered one seat less—was able to form a larger coalition. more...

The Jewish Traveler: Zikhron Ya'akov 
By Esther Hecht
The harsh conditions met by the first settlers to Israel’s ‘Provence’ are almost forgotten on a stroll through the shops and cafés that now fill their red-roofed houses and courtyards. more...

The 188th Crybaby Brigade 
By Joel Chasnoff
For this "skinny Jewish kid from Chicago," joining the Israeli Army for one year might seem counterintuitive: He was 24 years old, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and a left-leaning, lactose-intolerant peacenik who passed out when he saw blood. more...

Editor's Wrapup: Migrants 
The immigrants who arrived in Israel over the past century came mostly by boat or airplane, but it’s the voyage our forebears from Egypt made on foot that is at the core of Jewish history. So it’s fitting that this month’s issue of Hadassah Magazine focuses on walking. more...

Arts: Art From Everything (Incl. the Kitchen Sink) 
By Rahel Musleah
The first major exhibit from well-known illustrator Maira Kalman celebrates her idiosyncratic, whimsical and poignant views on contemporary life. more...

Profile: Yasmin Levy 
By Rahel Musleah
Classic Ladino compositions receive reverential treatment—and passionate flamenco remixes—from the ‘sultry siren’ of the almost extinct language.
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Family Matters: Steel Drum Hora 
By Michele Chabin
On an exotic Caribbean island, two families—one Christian, the other Jewish—pull off the ultimate Orthodox destination wedding. more...

Letter from Nazareth: Members of the Wedding 
By David W. Weiss
We stepped through the magic looking glass and found ourselves in a world at once very different from the one we inhabit and very much the same: the world of Arab Nazareth. We came as members of the Khourys’ wedding party. more...

Israeli Life: Country Road, Take Me Home 
By Rochelle Furstenberg
Winding the length of the Jewish state, the Israel National Trail is the way 
this nation of hikers connects to each other and to their beautiful, multifaceted land. more...

Commentary: Healing on the Rocks 
By Sherri Mandell
We were going on vacation—me and Eliana, my 18-year-old daughter, and my friend Shira and her 18-year-old daughter, Ruthie. It would be a gift to our daughters, good friends. I booked a cheap charter vacation in Rhodes more...

Medicine: Detecting Child Abuse 
By Wendy Elliman
Dr. Yoram Ben Yehuda, head of Hadassah’s pediatric emergency unit, has taken the lead in protecting children throughout Israel. more...

Inside Hadassah: Miracles of Environment, Empowerment and Health 
By Hadassah Magazine
Chaim Weizmann, Israel’s first president, once said, “Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them.” We agree, so this month we applaud miracle workers like the Hadassah scientists who have created a new method of growing greater numbers of stem cells that can be used for researching new methods of combating disease. more...

Cut & Post 
How to cook like a Southern Jew and what to drink this summer; plus, the latest way to stay in touch with grandkids online and the restoration of an historic synagogue in Jerusalem. more...

Brief Reviews: Living Traditions and Ancient Treasures 
In 30 large-format candid images and brief oral histories, Randi Sidman-Moore captures the daily lives and holiday rituals of a community that largely left Cuba during the Castro takeover in 1959 and took up a new life, primarily in Miami. more...

Books: Puzzling Out Pages That Challenge Imagination 
To get something out of Beatrice and Virgil, a reader must engage in several acts of faith: faith that the abstruse details will prove meaningful, that the knack for indelible storytelling that won Yann Martel the Man Booker Prize for Fiction forLife of Pi (Marwer) will rematerialize and that it will all produce a luminary way to examine the Holocaust. more...

Letters to the Editor: Israel—Lighting the Way 
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Out of Hadassah Archives: Engaging History 
By Susan Woodland
Numerous reference requests lately have asked how the building of the Hadassah Medical Center in the 1950s compares with the building of the new Sarah Wetsman Davidson Tower today. more...

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