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Hadassah at 100: Where No Man Has Gone Before

'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

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

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

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

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

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

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

First ladies

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

Jewish World News

Moran Mazor, Israel's 2013 Eurovision contestant, performing in Malmo. Wednesday, May 15, 2013.

Israeli Eurovision delegation threatened in Sweden

By JTA | 08:04 PM | 27

Angelina Jolie's 'Jewish genetic mutation': Breast cancer gene is common in Israel, but few opt for preventive mastectomy

By Dan Even | 03:50 PM | 8

Las Vegas Sands Corp. CEO Sheldon Adelson testifies in Clark County district court in Las Vegas

Sheldon Adelson ordered to pay $70 million to Hong Kong businessman

By The Associated Press | 02:34 PM

Jewish World Features

In Budapest, a revival of Jewish studies - and not just among Jews

By Judy Maltz | 01:02 AM

Ten reasons conversion to Judaism has failed

By Anshel Pfeffer | 09:54 PM | 15

Christian churches back Jews facing anti-Semitism in Hungary

By Reuters | 04:55 PM | 5

The Jewish Thinker

Cheese at a deli prior to Shavuot, Tiberius, May 8, 2013.

Shavuot, the forgotten holiday

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

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

By Joel Braunold / Jewish World blogger | 08:07 AM | 2

In order to live together, both religious and secular Jews need to accept discomfort

By Arie Hasit / Jewish World blogger | 07:03 PM | 8