On a cold February day in 2008, my husband, Sid, and I heard the words we had long anticipated. a “Dad, Michele, Leslie and I

Journeys The immigrants who arrived in Israel over the past century came mostly by boat or airplane, but it’s the voyage our forebears from Egypt

We were going on vacation—me and Eliana, my 18-year-old daughter, and my friend Shira and her 18-year-old daughter, Ruthie. It would be a gift to

In a renowned biblical love-triangle, a destitute widow cares for her equally destitute mother-in-law, and an elderly rich man falls in love with the daughter

Jerusalem has been in the news lately, and as usual the image much of the media projects bears little resemblance to the city most of

Numerous reference requests lately have asked how the building of the Hadassah Medical Center in the 1950s compares with the building of the new Sarah

The patient was 30 years old and he was dying. His liver—scarred beyond repair by cirrhosis that followed a hepatitis B infection 18 years earlier—was

Hadassah Magazine mourns the passing of Charlotte Jacobson, one of the towering figures of the Zionist movement, who died May 14 in Florida. In addition to