Although I can’t remember when I first heard the name Hadassah, my real interest in the Women’s Zionist Organization of America started in my midtwenties

Just in time for Hadassah’s 100th birthday, two academic presses have released in-depth appraisals of the significant roles played by Hadassah in American Jewish and

In hindsight, history always looks inevitable. When we look at Hadassah’s 100-year saga, we see the linear version, showing the founding meeting at Temple Emanu-El

If the Hadassah century had a scrapbook, its first page would show women gathered on February 24, 1912, shortly before Purim, to found an organization

Flames in thick, squat glass tumblers flickered on the kitchen counter of my Brooklyn home as my mother, the designated keeper of our extended family’s

In the movie Calendar Girls, Helen Mirren leads a group of Yorkshire women who decide to donate a sofa to the cancer ward of a local

Last June, the popular Saudi Arabian daily Al-Watan had something positive to say about its regional neighbor. Columnist Fawaz al-’Ilmi told readers that “the only registry in