As 2,000 women and men in bright red Hadassah T-shirts joyously wound their way down Jerusalem’s Jaffa Road last fall, music playing, flags flying and

In the 1980s, in my late twenties, I was studying in a yeshiva for young women who had no religious education. Newly arrived in Israel,

This Hanukka, for the sake of our daughters, let’s tell the missing piece of the Maccabee story. Let’s celebrate the Queen of the Jews, who

Every year at this time we read stories about how the Pilgrims likely used their knowledge of Sukkot, the harvest festival of ancient Israel, as

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Hadassah. what did it mean to me prior to June 2009? It was one of the many Jewish organizations that I received mail from periodically

November, perhaps more than any other month, reminds us of both the need for Zionism and also its legitimacy. It comes with anniversaries we remember