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Marching Through Jerusalem
Please enjoy our coverage of From Dream to Innovation: Hadassah’s Milestone Mission, when participants toured Israel and took to the streets to support Hadassah.

Please enjoy our coverage of From Dream to Innovation: Hadassah’s Milestone Mission, when participants toured Israel and took to the streets to support Hadassah.
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The Pioneering Women of Zionism
An updated anthology of classic Zionist texts acknowledges the influence of women like Golda Meir and Naomi Shemer as well as Hadassah’s early leaders.

An updated anthology of classic Zionist texts acknowledges the influence of women like Golda Meir and Naomi Shemer as well as Hadassah leaders.
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Hadassah on the Boardwalk
Hadassah celebrated many of its early conventions in seaside Atlantic City, including its 25th anniversary convention in 1937. Enjoy this photo album of “vintage” Hadassah as you scroll down memory lane.

Enjoy this photo album of “vintage” Hadassah in Atlantic City as you scroll down memory lane.
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Premonition of Hope: Hadassah Members Recall 1967
Fifty years ago, our readers were new mothers, students at Hebrew University and the Weizmann institute, college kids in America and young girls about the celebrate their bat mitzvah. Here, they look back at the Six-Day War while renewing their commitment to Jerusalem, Hadassah and tikkun olam.

Fifty years ago, our readers were new mothers, students at Hebrew University, college kids in America and young girls about the celebrate their bat mitzvah.

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The Impossible Takes a Little Longer

by Rhoda Smolow

Juggling objectives and crises is certainly a constant theme in the Hadassah story.

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RBG: Inspired by Henrietta Szold Until the End

by Dvora Hacohen

I got to know Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her winning personality and the values that guided her over the course of our correspondence in recent years on the subject

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Pathbreaking Jurist and Proud Jew

by Adena Berkowitz

The passing on Erev Rosh Hashanah of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the age of 87 led to an outpouring of tributes and admiration for her work and

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Readers React to Biden, Trump Opinion Pieces

We received a significant response from readers to the two political opinion pieces that ran in the September/October issue of the magazine.

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The Extra Dayenu in Repairing an Imperfect World

by Rhoda Smolow

Channeling gratitude for Covid-19 vaccine trials, the rebirth of an ancient species of date palm and groundbreaking research into breast cancer—all at Hadassah.

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Letters to the Editor: Anti-Semitism, Activism and Advocacy

The July/August 2020 issue raises a profound question, 75 years after the Holocaust, as to whether mainstream Jewish organizations will call out the alarming increase in anti-Semitic and