Archives for November 2009

Known as the Gateway to Zion for its role as a point of emigration to Palestine, this sophisticated, cultured city teems with literary significance and

A nursing home is not the most obvious place to house a new, contemporary Jewish museum, but that is one of a number of surprises

There’s no way around it: Preparing for Thanksgiving is a time-consuming affair, with the turkey taking up not only hours and energy but oven space

Deceptively simple, elegant prose wrings beauty out of the horrors of the Holocaust in one author’s autobiographical novel of her wartime experiences. Elie Wiesel has

What a year this has been. Hadassah faced a financial meltdown and we had our name linked to scandalous headlines involving unscrupulous people with whom

Once the focus of worldwide attention, genetic therapy’s dazzling potential has proven difficult to implement. However, a team at Hadassah is still researching healing through

A new tradition is taking root in Jerusalem as Jews seeking free religious expression flock to the promenades overlooking the Old City for holidays and

Iran has outmaneuvered the United States and its allies on the nuclear weapons’ issue. Fortunately, Israel has its own secret weapon for dealing with the