Hadassah Magazine Presents

One of the most alarming upticks in antisemitism has been in the world of medicine, which impacts doctors and patients, medical students, nurses, mental health practitioners and anyone working in health care today. How do Jewish medical professionals navigate these difficult times, and how can we, as patients, protect ourselves? Hadassah Magazine  Executive Editor Lisa Hostein speaks with a panel...

Hadassah Magazine  Executive Editor Lisa Hostein speaks with food-world luminary Adeena Sussman about her new cookbook,  Zariz: 100 Easy, Breezy, Tel Aviv-y Recipes .   With its focus on uncomplicated, Israeli-inflected cooking, Sussman, the author of the best-selling  Sababa  and  Shabbat  cookbooks and the beloved food columnist at the magazine, developed  Zariz  in the shadow of the Hamas attac...

Hadassah Magazine Presents host Lisa Hostein speaks with Matti Friedman about his new book,  ⁠ Out of the Sky: Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe ⁠ , on Hannah Senesh and the mission to rescue Jews during World War II. The renowned journalist and author discusses the enduring relevance of the ill-fated mission that became a Zionist legend as well as the challenges Israel faces today.  Further Reso...

Hadassah Magazine  Executive Editor Lisa Hostein speaks with master storyteller Allegra Goodman. Famed for her keen observations of the idiosyncrasies of contemporary Jewish families, Goodman discusses her latest novel,  This is Not About Us , and shares insights into the complexities of American Jewish life and faith.  Further Resources Purchase  This is Not About Us  on Bookshop .   Read the rev...

Tune in as award-winning author Mary Morris joins Hadassah Magazine Presents to discuss her latest novel,  The Red House.   A mystery that toggles between contemporary New Jersey and Mussolini’s Italy during World War II, the book explores hidden Jewish identity and history and the lasting impact of trauma.   Further Resources Read  a review  of  The Red House  in  Hadassah Magazine  Purchase a co...

With menopause suddenly everywhere, from news reports to memes on social media to pop culture, it's fair to say that menopause is having a moment. What's driving this new visibility for something women have always experienced? And how can you separate fact from fiction? Those questions and more are addressed in this episode focused on the changing conversation, latest health trends and med...

In conversation with  Hadassah Magazine  Executive Editor Lisa Hostein, Angela Buchdahl, the trailblazing senior rabbi of New York City’s Central Synagogue and one of America’s most influential Jewish spiritual leaders, joins  Hadassah Magazine Presents  to discuss her remarkable journey from South Korea, where she was born, to the rabbinate; finding light and joy in Judaism today amid the many ch...

Recorded live at the Miami Book Fair, this episode features   award-winning historian Pamela S. Nadell, director of the Jewish Studies Program at American University, about her new book,  Antisemitism, an American Tradition . Nadell addresses the dark history of how antisemitic hate threaded across the American past from colonial times to today, uncovering centuries of prejudice — but also Jewish...

In conversation with Hadassah Magazine Executive Editor Lisa Hostein, renowned Israeli writers Yossi Klein Halevi ( Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor ) and Lee Yaron ( 10/7: 100 Human Stories ) join Hadassah Magazine Presents to discuss what it means to be a Jew today, in a post October-7 world as well as what two years of war and rising global antisemitism mean for the future of the Jewish peopl...

As non-Hebrew readers are at last able to access and enjoy the work of acclaimed Israeli-born author Maya Arad, one of the "finest living authors writing in Hebrew today" ( Haaretz ), this candid and illuminating conversation highlights what makes Maya and her work so vital. In dialogue with  Hadassah Magazine  Executive Editor, Lisa Hostein, Maya discusses her new book,  Happy New Years...

Jewish writers are being blacklisted and review bombed as antisemitism runs rampant in the book world.  Tune in as Hadassah Magazine Executive Editor Lisa Hostein moderates a panel of prestigious literary insiders discussing the challenges and opportunities facing Jewish authors amid the current climate of rising antisemitism.  THE PANELISTS Rachel Gordan  is the Samuel "Bud" Shorstein P...

Tune in as Hadassah Magazine  Executive Editor Lisa Hostein interviews  Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur , author of the recent best seller  ⁠ How Isn't It Going? Conversations After October 7 ⁠  and the inspiration behind the hit streaming series  ⁠ Reformed, ⁠  which is loosely based on her award-winning 2021 essay collection  ⁠ Living With Our Dead ⁠ . One of only a handful of female French rabbis...

Anyone who has visited a college campus or scrolled social media has seen the alarming anti-Israel rhetoric running rampant among young people, including young Jews. But there are young people who have emerged in this difficult environment with a renewed passion for Israel and dedication to fighting for its future. Hear from some of them and the leaders supporting them in this informative and insp...

In this compelling conversation,  Hadassah Magazine  senior and books editor Leah Finkelshteyn speaks with Israeli-Canadian writer Ayelet Tsabari, whose debut novel,  Songs for the Brokenhearted , won a National Jewish Book Award for Fiction.   The rich and complex novel unfolds across two pivotal moments in Israel's history: one set in an immigration camp in the 1950s, shortly after the found...

From Miriam to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, strong Jewish women have had the guts to speak out, impact history, break barriers and make a difference. We celebrate those women in this empowering episode.  Tune in as Hadassah Magazine  Executive Editor Lisa Hostein moderates a panel discussion with actor and neuroscientist  Mayim Bialik , who is profiled, along with Hadassah founder Henrietta Szold, Supreme...

Hadassah Magazine  Executive Editor Lisa Hostein interviews three-time National Jewish Book Award Winner  Dara Horn  about her latest work, the Passover-set graphic novel  One Little Goat , and about the alarming rise and historical roots of antisemitism. Horn, one of America’s most insightful Jewish commentators, is also the author of five best-selling novels, as well as the 2021 essay collection...

More than any other work of literature, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl helped the world comprehend the tragedy of the Holocaust. Anne’s diary now merits revisiting — not just as an inspiring tale of a girl coming of age under unimaginable circumstances, but as a siren alerting us to the malevolent potential of antisemitism anywhere. Hadassah Magazine  Executive Editor Lisa Hostein hosts a d...