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ISRAEL NEWS

BREAKING NEWS

10:57
Singer Barbara Streisand to be awarded honorary doctorate by Hebrew University (Haaretz)
10:56
Syrian state media: Regime troops in key strategic town near Lebanese border (AP)
10:46
30 Hezbollah fighters, including brother-in-law of Nasrallah, reportedly killed in Syria (Haaretz)
10:17
Car bombs in mainly Shi'ite district of Baghdad kill at least 14, police and medics say (Reuters)
09:50
Vandals spray paint home of Women of the Wall activist with graffiti reading 'Torah tag' (Haaretz)
09:17
Lapid to NYT: Israel must not halt West Bank settlement construction (Haaretz)
08:32
Shots fired from Syria into Israeli territory; no casualties or damage; Israel notifies UN (Haaretz)
06:31
Death toll rises to 14 after tunnel collapse at Indonesia mine (DPA)
05:42
Syrian troops push into strategic rebel-held town (AP)
05:05
20-year-old man stabbed in altercation in Haifa (Army Radio)
04:18
Severe tornadoes hit Kansas, Oklahoma; no injuries reported (Reuters)
02:43
30-year-old man drowns to death off coast of Tel Aviv (Haaretz)
02:02
Two truck collision kills one, injures three at Lehavim junction north of Be'er Sheva (Haaretz)
01:36
Militants kill 10 Iraq policemen in checkpoint attacks (Reuters)

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Hadassah at 100: Where No Man Has Gone Before

Helping themselves and others

'It’s important that women be aware that if they don’t treat their business like a work-in-progress – needing a business plan and customer recruiting – it just won’t move ahead'.

By Hila Weissberg | Oct 10, 2012 | 04:37 PM

Members at a NIV event in Modi’in in 2011.

Net disadvantage
By Hila Weissberg

Hadassah Ein Kerem.

Israel charities in the U.S. bucking predictions of doom

Set back by the global economic crisis and the Madoff scandal, Israel charities that raise money in the U.S. appear to be climbing their way back.

By Dina Kraft | Oct 10, 2012 | 04:06 PM

Volunteers with children at an Ethiopian orphanage

Transplanted operation

Hadassah physicians took know-how from treating pediatric AIDS patients from Operation Solomon and brought it back to Ethiopian orphanages.

By Judy Maltz | Oct 10, 2012 | 04:01 PM

Miriam Schler

Standing up to the dark side

Long Island native Miriam Schler, motivated by her youth movement experience, passed on a career in law to develop the Tel Aviv Sexual Assault Crisis Center.

By Danna Harman | Oct 10, 2012 | 11:02 AM

Iris Stark

Net disadvantage

Israeli women in the workforce often stumble at professional networking according to observers, some of whom advocate an old girl’s network to counter men’s advantages from serving in the army

By Hila Weissberg | Oct 10, 2012 | 04:27 PM

Women singing - Haggai Frid - May 15, 2012

Where freedom confronts communal values

In the U.S., our cultural ideal is “freedom”: freedom from restrictions, individual freedom to do anything we want that is not illegal. Freedom is not so much an Israeli ideal, rather “sustaining community” – belonging to something sacred and larger than oneself – is what moves Israelis.

By Shula Reinharz | Oct 10, 2012 | 11:38 AM

Rabbi Tamar Kolberg

Rabbis in waiting

More than a century after Henrietta Szold studied at JTS, women in Israel are still struggling for acceptance as Jewish leaders

By Allison Kaplan Sommer | Oct 10, 2012 | 04:48 PM

A page from Szold’s diary describing the hospitals in Jerusalem.

The writing on the page

Henrietta Szold’s 1909 diary hints at things to come in the Land of Israel.

By Steven Klein | Oct 10, 2012 | 04:13 PM

Yifat Zamir

What Israeli women want

Bucking societal and religious shibboleths, this generation is pushing for shared parenting to strike a balance between the mommy track and the superwoman model.

By Tali Heruti-Sover | Oct 10, 2012 | 03:32 PM

Keren Leibowitz

But oh, the salaries

The salary gap in Israel not only gives a lasting sense of humiliation but also affects decisions about sharing the household burden.

By Tali Heruti-Sover | Oct 10, 2012 | 03:49 PM

Hadassah presidents

If history has taught us anything, it is this: There is no challenge that a Hadassah lady isn’t willing to take on.

By Allison Kaplan Sommer | Oct 10, 2012 | 03:24 PM

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Jewish World News

Graffiti reading "Women of the Wall are wicked" and "Torah tag" outside home of Peggy Cidor, May 20,

Vandals spray-paint inciting graffiti outside Jerusalem home of Women of the Wall activist

By Judy Maltz | 10:18 AM

Naftali Bennett

Bennett pushing vast reforms to pry Israel’s rabbinate from ultra-Orthodox grip

By Yair Ettinger | 04:00 AM | 2

A screen grab from a YouTube video of Attila Petrovszki.

'Death to Jews’ tattoo costs Hungarian martial artist Prague gig

By JTA | 08:30 PM | 3

Jewish World Features

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By Brian Schaefer | 06:49 PM

Gatsby

Baz Luhrmann, blood libel and a vaguely Jewish Gatsby

By Hephzibah Anderson | 06:05 PM

The Jewish Thinker

Member of Women of the Wall.

In defense of Jewish pluralism

By Arie Hasit / Jewish World blogger | 10:13 AM

Shavuot, the forgotten holiday

By Yael Miller / Jewish World blogger | 07:30 AM | 2

When you love your mum but she hates Mother's Day

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