Measured in masks that signify great challenge and our ability to rise to the occasion, we have now had a year of Purim.

Perhaps more than anything else, our long viral winter should remind us that existential challenges to our entire planet demand that nations work together.

In 1987, on the eve of a summit between President Ronald Reagan and Premier Mikhail Gorbachev, 250,000 people marched on Washington in solidarity with Soviet Jewry.

Juggling objectives and crises is certainly a constant theme in the Hadassah story.

Channeling gratitude for Covid-19 vaccine trials, the rebirth of an ancient species of date palm and groundbreaking research into breast cancer—all at Hadassah.

At Rosh Hashanah, the shofar calling us to gather together reminds us of the new forms of assembly we have developed during the pandemic.

The best way to honor the triumph of women’s suffrage is to act as if it happened not 100 years ago but yesterday: go vote.

For all the loss of life, for all the stress we have seen and felt these many months, I’m sure we will hold on to our 2020 inspiration.