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Being Jewish
Announcing Hadassah Magazine’s 2023 Teen Essay Contest
The fourth annual Hadassah Magazine and jGirls+ Magazine teen essay contest is here!

The fourth annual Hadassah Magazine and jGirls+ Magazine teen essay contest is here!
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Jewish Girls Make the Grade
Girls are reaching new levels of academic success, in the process surpassing boys in earning undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Girls are reaching new levels of academic success, in the process surpassing boys in earning undergraduate and graduate degrees.

The Talmud (Eruvin 65) suggests that a person is defined by what he carries in his pockets. Every Thanksgiving, I look into my pockets and

Being Jewish

Commentary: Questions of Faith

by David Wolpe

I was 12 when I stopped believing in God. I lost my faith when I first encountered the horrific images of the Holocaust in the

Being Jewish

Commentary: Talmudic Fish Tale

by llana Kurshan

It is Friday afternoon, two hours before Shabbat. I am preparing salmon in my Jerusalem studio apartment, listening to a recorded lecture on my computer

Being Jewish

Last Look: A Star Is Reborn – Reclaiming and reinventing a Jewish legacy.

In its heyday, the eldridge Street Synagogue in New York’s Lower East Side echoed with the footsteps of thousands of worshipers, from the famous—scientist Jonas

Being Jewish

Commentary: Sunrise, Sunset

by Lisa Kingstone

When my son was a newborn, I had imagined myself his custodian in the years ahead, picking up after him, feeding him, buying larger pants

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Editor’s Wrapup: In So Many Words

by Alan M. Tigay

Just as language is what distinguishes humankind from the other species, so does the way we use language distinguish one person from another. There are

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