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A Thinking Mother's Memoir

1 week ago | hadassahmagazine.org | Judy Bolton-Fasman

Email Print Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays By Nicole Graev Lipson (Chronicle Books)In her debut collection, Mothers and Other Fictional Characters, Nicole Graev Lipson is unflinching and honest, poetic and learned, intelligent and emotional. Her 12 essays are seasoned with Jewish learning as they explore motherhood’s complexities, challenges and joys, showcasing the author, journalist and essayist’s impressive command of English literature and women’s history.
The Mom Who Co-Designed Israel’s Supreme Court Building

1 week ago | hadassahmagazine.org | Curt Schleier

Email Print Ada Karmi-Melamede is considered one of Israel’s most celebrated architects. Over the past four decades, the 88-year-old Israel Prize recipient has designed some of the nation’s most iconic public buildings, perhaps none more so than the Supreme Court building in Jerusalem, which she conceived of with her late brother, Ram Karmi.
Books on Motherhood in All Its Permutations

1 week ago | hadassahmagazine.org | Judy Bolton-Fasman

Email Print Since I became pregnant with my daughter over 30 years ago, I have been something of a 24-hour sentry. I can’t seem to break the impulse that left me on duty as a parent morning, noon and night, seven days a week. The psychology books have a descriptor for me—I am hypervigilant. When my girl was a baby, I stood over her to listen to her sweet breathing almost every day. My hypervigilance later extended to her test-taking in college, and beyond.
Meet Canada’s Jewish Female Culinary Stars

2 weeks ago | hadassahmagazine.org | Adeena Sussman

Email Print Canada’s food scene is chockablock with female Jewish success stories, and Gail Simmons has some ideas about why. “My nonscientific theory is that it’s because we are a younger country,” she said, and Canadian Jews are “less assimilated than American Jews.”Simmons, 48, is the longtime host of the Bravo television cooking series Top Chef as well as a respected food authority.
Idina Menzel Dishes on ‘Redwood’ and Jewish Ethics

2 weeks ago | hadassahmagazine.org | Curt Schleier

Email Print Tony award-winning actor and singer Idina Menzel is now starring in what may be the most positive Jewish play on Broadway in decades. In the musical Redwood, Menzel plays Jesse, a New York City art gallery owner and bereaved Jewish mother. Unable to cope with the approaching anniversary of the death of her son from a drug overdose, Jesse, who is gay, leaves her wife and job and travels across the country to Eureka, Calif.
'Let the Truth Come Out'

3 weeks ago | hadassahmagazine.org | Maayan Hoffman

Email Print Edna Mor adjusted her computer camera, angling it toward the grand piano at the heart of her living room. Her thick Russian accent grew harder to understand as she fought back tears. “This is the holiest place in my house,” she whispered. “She loved playing so much.”“She” is Shirel Mor, Edna’s daughter, who was one of the tatzpitaniyot, observer soldiers from the Border Defense Corps’ 414th unit, tasked with keeping close watch on the border with Gaza.
Listening to Folksinger Janis Ian

1 month ago | hadassahmagazine.org | Curt Schleier

Email Print Many people have likely only heard of Janis Ian from for her two major hits, Society’s Child, from 1965, and At Seventeen, from 1975. A new documentary on the life and career of the Jewish singer-songwriter, whose songs have been covered by stars from Cher to Nina Simone to Dave Grohl, is out in select theaters on March 28.
New Jewish Books For Spring 2025

1 month ago | hadassahmagazine.org | Sandee Brawarsky |Binnie Kirshenbaum |Susan Josephs |Lucy Adlington |Kelsey Osgood

Email Print Counting BackwardsBy Binnie Kirshenbaum (Soho Press)This novel, author Binnie Kirshenbaum’s eighth, focuses closely on a loving, happily married couple—he is a scientist; she is an artist—as the husband’s health plunges because of early-onset Lewy body dementia. With dark humor and much insight into love and grief, Kirshenbaum details the couple’s unraveling lives as they shift from sharing dreams to an unexpected place of despair.
'October 8,' and the Rise of Antisemitism on Campus

2 months ago | hadassahmagazine.org | Curt Schleier

Email Print October 8 is depressing, frightening and warning of lurking dangers for the American Jewish community. It also is one of the most important films you’ll likely see this year. That is not hyperbole.
The Era of the Jewish Gun Club

2 months ago | hadassahmagazine.org | Esther Kustanowitz

Email Print Deby Goodman used to be a cantor at a Conservative synagogue. She also has worked as an accountant and once owned a spa, “the only one around with a mezuzah on every doorpost,” said the Hadassah life member who sits on the board of directors of the Jewish National Fund’s local office in Orange County, Calif. Largely retired, Goodman, 70, now writes a Substack column about Israel and, occasionally, freelances as a karaoke DJ and as a cantor for weddings and funerals.