There is something so very special when, during our annual Hadassah business meeting, hundreds of Hadassah leaders, delegates and Associates meet to discuss and deliberate

From the ubiquitous Israeli wafer cookie to Judith's slaying of Holofernes to young Jewish volunteers working in the slums of Mumbai, tales of survival are always sweet.

Jean-Paul Sartre, in his existentialist play No Exit, posits that what you have actually done—not what you have been—is what defines your life. In Hebrew,

Method: Take two magnets. Put one in the stomach and the other in the small intestine. Wait a week for the attraction between the magnets

When Henrietta Szold first visited Jerusalem in 1909, she was shocked by the dismal state of public health including—among other ailments—the prevalence of trachoma, especially

I was not just stir-crazy but screen-crazy. I work on two computer screens and then there is my Kindle. But on Shabbat my screens go dark.

The process of forgiveness involves both the one who was angered and the one who gave offense. What happens, then, when only one side is left to both…

Scratch yesterday and you will often find today just below the surface. It’s easy to link the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil