by Julie Wiener | Apr 15, 2026
Mark your calendar! Two of our U.S.-based grant recipients, Moving Traditions and Jewtina y Co. are offering opportunities for Jewish women and girls with fast-approaching deadlines. In other news, U.S.-based grant recipient, Jewish Women International, has just...
by Julie Wiener | Apr 13, 2026
Days before Hadassah Foundation staff and board were scheduled to depart for an Israel mission, we hosted a small kick-off Zoom briefing with journalist and filmmaker Anat Saragusti, journalist and media analyst Kholod Massalha, and law professor Yofi Tirosh. To...
by Julie Wiener | Mar 30, 2026
Once upon a time, women did most of the cooking, cleaning, and serving for the Passover seder, while the men dominated the reading and discussion of the Hagaddah. Thankfully, modern seder tables tend to be more equitable, with women contributing to and often leading...
by Julie Wiener | Mar 26, 2026
This week, at a late-night session while Israel was under missile attack, the Knesset passed a law giving all-male rabbinical courts the power to arbitrate in civil matters. (It already had power to rule in marriage and divorce cases.) Several Hadassah Foundation...
by Julie Wiener | Mar 18, 2026
The Hadassah Foundation is pleased to welcome two new board members: Lisa Haynor of Atlanta, Georgia, and Buffie Longmire-Avital of Greensboro, North Carolina; as well as our two inaugural Fellowship Directors: Shanie Reichman of New York City and Elizabeth Slotnick...
