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On the Runway: Jewish women through the ages
By Cindy Mindell ~ NEW HAVEN – Two years ago, Dina Rubini attended “Jewish Women through the Ages,” a multimedia fashion show portraying historical figures from biblical times to the… Read more
Q & A… Rabbi Mary Zamore: Restoring the Jewish “power of the fork”
By Cindy Mindell ~ WESTPORT — In the Pittsburgh Platform, the 1885 document adopted by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, American Reform rabbis encouraged their followers to embrace a… Read more
BDS permeating churches, campuses
By Jacob Kamaras / JointMedia News Service ~ NEW YORK, N.Y. — First came an entire conference dedicated to boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) at the University of Pennsylvania. More recently,… Read more
Rosalind Gordon: Turning 90 at the Torah
By Cindy Mindell ~ BRIDGEPORT – Rosalind Gordon was 83 when she first read from the Torah as an adult bat mitzvah at Congregation B’nai Israel in Bridgeport. She read… Read more
We remember Menachem Begin
Menachem Begin – a Life: The second day of the Hebrew month of Adar II marks the 20th yahrzeit of Menachem Begin z”l, Israel’s sixth prime minister, who died on… Read more
Hadassah at 100: One woman’s vision, realized
Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, was founded by Henrietta Szold on Feb. 24, 1912. Like others of her generation, Szold’s existence was shaped — and framed — by… Read more
Conversation with Marcie Natan, Hadassah’s national president
By Judie Jacobson ~ HARTFORD – At its Annual Meeting in July 2011, the National Board of Hadassah: The Women’s Zionist Organization of America elected Marcie Natan as its national… Read more
From High Tea to Chai Tea, CT Hadassah celebrates centennial
By Cindy Mindell ~ Connie Freeman is quick to point out that Hadassah was founded eight years before the Nineteenth Amendment granted American women the right to vote. “This is… Read more
Conversation with… Dr. Uzi Rabi
By Judie Jacobson ~ WASHINGTON, D.C. – Dr. Uzi Rabi is director of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University and also chairs… Read more
Advocating for Israel, one aid project at a time
By Cindy Mindell ~ Looking at the state of the State of Israel today, Zionist visionary Theodor Herzl might not recognize the face of the movement he helped launch in… Read more
