My term as Hadassah national president has been enlightening and exhausting, exhilarating and turbulent, marked by great challenge and sweet success.

The Ten Commandments are familiar to most and some may know of the seven Noahide laws, but in the hierarchy of biblical lists, the 613 mitzvot is a…

The new website offers a platform for Jews to kibitz, share recipes and engage in our rich tradition of debate.

The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene is out with the musical comedy Di Goldene Kale, The Golden Bride.

For 35 years i have served as executive editor of this magazine. This edition is my last. I take with me the experience of the articles I have…

The title of this ambitious, compassionate tale of four women who love, lose and rededicate themselves to life refers to a “solemn, ancient, sacred” burial ritual, a hesed…

In her new memoir, Rita Gabis tells of unearthing facts about her once-beloved grandfather, the chief of police from 1941 to 1943 under the Gestapo in the Lithuanian…