Yolande Gabai Harmer: Israel’s Secret Heroine
Moshe Sharett, the head of the Jewish Agency’s Political Department, visited Egypt in 1945. In Cairo he met a most remarkable young woman, a beautiful journalist who was the darling of Egyptian high society - from high-ranking military brass, to culture icons and Muslim sheikhs, to the court of King Faruk.
Aviv Tsalik: My Champion
She was a voice on the telephone, a pleasant, friendly voice: “How can I help you?”
I had heard this question in the past five weeks more time than I care to remember. As soon as I explained what my quest was the questioner would switch me to another voice on the telephone, then onto another, and another, without any results. This went on daily ever since we moved to a new apartment and wished to have our landline telephone number reinstated, instead of the temporary one arbitrarily assigned by the company.
Dr. Eilat Mazar: Biblical Archaeologist
I work with the Bible in one hand and the tools of excavation in the other.
Kolech: Promoting Women’s Rights In Orthodox Judaism
These developments brought about cooperation between Torah-educated women and a small number of rabbis who favor an egalitarian approach.
Fiamma Nirenstein: The Multi-Talented Jewish Diplomat
Their daughter Fiamma inherited the Zionist spirit and talent for writing from her parents.
Esther Pollard: A True Woman of Valor
Esther called their marriage "an oasis of unconditional love in a sea of lies and corruption.
Shoshana Bluth: A Supermom Hotline Of Emunah
Shoshana Bluth’s telephone number is a help hotline for mothers and wives of Israeli soldiers – a hotline of faith, emunah in Hebrew.
Hadassa Birnbaum: ‘Hand In Hand’
Operating under the umbrella of Esra for administrative help, Hadassa’s group delivers 120 food baskets every month.
Remembering Esterka
Polish history and popular legend credits a beautiful Jewish girl named Esther, or Esterka, with the turn of Jewish fortunes in Poland.
Professor Malka Schaps: Ultra-Orthodox Dean
Prof. Malka Schaps was born Mary Kramer, a Protestant, in Cleveland, Ohio. When she was sixteen, she started questioning the rationale of moral conduct: Why be good?
Dalia Betolin-Sherman: How The World Turned White
She writes intuitively, freely, and only afterwards understands the meaning of what she has written.
Belaynesh Zevadia: Ambassador To Ethiopia
He related how they had to create a single chain of men, women and children in order to help them board the plane that had no seats. They had to be removed in order to accommodate as many immigrants as possible, among them Belaynesh Zevadia.
From The Archives… Rachel Celebrates Her Bat Mitzvah
What an amazing message is this birth on the doorstep of the Biblical matriarch!
Yehudit And The Miracle Of Chanukah
She approached Holofernes and, with a sword concealed under her robe, severed his head.
Chanah And Her Seven Sons: Inspiring Story For Chanukah
Ever since, the tragic tale is told and retold as “Chanah and Her Seven Sons.”
Sylvia Rafael: A Fearless Fighter For Israel
Three years after she first arrived in Israel, she met a Mossad recruiter who thought she might be right for the organization.
Holocaust Heroines: Hilda Pistiner
When I first saw Hilda Pistiner I believed she was a German tourist. Later, when I met her personally and found out she was an Israeli born in Bukovina, I labored under a second mistaken assumption: I believed she had been a pioneer in pre-State Israel, her fresh youthful blond looks untouched by the Holocaust. How wrong have I been!
Ruchama Cabilo: Motherhood
Each year International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated on March 8. Thousands of events occur, not only on this day but also throughout March to mark the social, economic and political accomplishments of women.
A Letter of Appreciation To Mrs. Esther Levens, CEO of Unity Coalition for Israel...
“I realized early on how really vulnerable Jews felt around the world,” you said.
Lyndell Higgins: Dance In The Face Of Hate
In recent months I have been profoundly affected by the news of growing anti-Semitism in most European countries and in the United States, especially on college campuses. When, at the end of World War II, I emerged a living skeleton from the German concentration camps, I believed that the horror of Jew-hatred was defeated forever. And now, as I watch my grandchildren raise their young families, the news of the ancient hatred’s revival strikes fear in my heart for their safety. For the Jewish future.
Holocaust As A Lesson For Life
How did you view the Nazis during the Holocaust and how do you view them now?
The Phenomenal Anastasia Michaeli
Who is Anastasia Michal Michaelevski Samuelson? Fashion model, electronics engineer, Beauty Queen, Knesset Member, devoted mother of eight, champion of the underdog, passionate Israeli, committed Jew?
Would you believe that she is all of the above – and more?
Joan Peters: The Myth “Of From Time Immemorial”
In 1939, Chuchill challenged the common notion that Jewish immigration to Palestine uprooted Arabs
Chava: The Mother Sets The Tone
How many of us realize that it was through this act that woman attained motherhood? Her punishment of pain and anguish turned into the blessing of bearing children.
Dr. Karnit Flug: First Female Governor Of The Bank of Israel
The State of Israel has truly reached the age of maturity. For the first time in 65 years a woman was appointed governor of the Bank of Israel.
Irene Burg: A Multifaceted Personality
About a year ago, my husband and I joined a new synagogue in Netanya. In the women’s section a strikingly elegant lady caught my attention. Only later, did I come to know that Irene Burg’s looks were only the tip of the iceberg.
Religious Girls In The: IDF Sari Michael
When asked how she handles religious questions, she noted that there is a battalion rabbi and she could ask her father.
Hadassa Dubrofsky: A True Role Model
Hadassa Dubrofsky, a lovely twelve-year old girl from Toronto, Canada decided to forgo bat-mitzvah presents and replace them with something even more meaningful and exciting – an act of chesed (charitable kindness).
Goldie Michelson: A Century Of Jewish Commitment
Whenever new Russian immigrants arrived in Worcester, Goldie Michelson helped welcome them.
Miriam Friedman: Chassidic Matriarch
Matriarch Miriam’s lifespan included the Russian Revolution, the oppression of Soviet Russia, the chaos of post-World War II Europe, and the birth of Chabad Chassidism around the world.