An organization as dynamic as Hadassah will not be distracted by a few scandalous headlines, or descriptions of events that happened years ago and for which we bear no responsibility, the group’s national president writes. More ▸
Jewish groups applauded President Obama’s decision to lift the executive order restricting federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. More ▸
The French first lady brought her elegance and humanitarianism to a glitzy fund-raiser in Paris for Hadassah Medical Organization’s hospital in Jerusalem, perhaps boosting Israel’s image to boot. More ▸
Two Jewish organizations have expressed disappointment that a provision to make family planning services more accessible under Medicaid was removed from economic stimulus legislation. More ▸
Agudath Israel of America asked U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to repudiate her statement that funding birth control reduces government costs. More ▸
Katyusha rockets were fired on northern Israel from Lebanon, sparking fears that the conflict with Hamas would open on a second front, but Israeli and Lebanese officials downplayed the incident. More ▸
Eight Jewish women were arrested after they entered the Israeli consulate in Toronto and began protesting Israel’s actions in Gaza. More ▸
Unifying the country requires reaching out to those with whom you disagree. That’s what a couple of top Jewish leaders are saying about Barack Obama’s choice of Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his swearing-in next month. Others in the community, however, say the president-elect’s choice is a disappointing kickoff to his administration. Critics… More ▸
On the evening of May 27, 2002, a Palestinian terrorist walked into an ice cream parlor in the central Israeli city of Petach Tikvah and detonated the explosives strapped to his chest. More than 30 Israelis were wounded in the attack. Two lives were claimed: 18-month-old Sinai Keinan and her 56-year-old grandmother, Ruti Peled. Even… More ▸
Rabbi Emanuel Rackman, a leading Orthodox thinker and an early champion of women’s rights, died Monday in New York. He was 98. Tributes poured in from around the world this week, many of them praising Rackman for being an Orthodox pioneer in trying to ease the plight of agunot — women whose recalcitrant husbands denied… More ▸
