Thursday, September 18, 2008
Cancer survivor brings art, courage to other patients
By Rachel Heller
Having cancer has emboldened Kaufman in other ways, too -- after her first surgery in 1999, she traveled to Israel for the first . . .
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Freshman Israeli filmmaker earns three Emmy nods
By Justin Rudzki, Israel21c
Rosie O'Donnell was impressed enough by Medalia and her venture that she joined the project as executive . . .
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Q&A with Rhoda Weisman -- Jewish woman on top
By Danielle Berrin
Rhoda Weisman, executive director of the Professional Leaders Project, which is designed to engender and support a new generation of leaders in the . . .
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Rabbi Leah Kroll takes solo trip to fulfill aliyah dreams
By Tom Tugend
In August, she joined 240 other North American olim, or new immigrants, on an El Al flight chartered by Nefesh B' Nefesh (Soul to Soul), arriving to . . .
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Deferred dream comes true for actress Nan Tepper
By Tom Tugend
"I had been a student, wife, mother, news executive and caregiver, but I had always promised myself that one day I would be an . . .
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
All pink, all the time
By Molly Binenfeld, Contributing Writer
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Feminist cantor retires from long-term post
By Danielle Berrin
If words don't come easily to Rosenbloom, it's because she has spent most of her life singing. As early as age 4, she jumped up on a coffee table at . . .
Thursday, July 17, 2008
The Hadassah convention - VideoJew style
By Jay Firestone
The 94th annual Hadassah convention recently traveled to Los Angeles and JewishJournal.com VideoJew Jay Firestone was all over it, like jelly on . . .
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Turning 60
By Rabbi Anne Brener
I have learned that finding peace is more important than being right, but that I can't make peace with someone who doesn't see me, nor they with me . . .
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Hadassah convention to stimulate mind, body, soul
By Tom Tugend
An overflowing plate of activities, from Shalom Yoga exercises at 6:15 a.m. to festivities lasting until midnight, will be served up to some 2,000 . . .
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Young women find it’s not their bubbe’s Hadassah
By Rachel Heller
A spiritually-attuned mother of two with a background in software sales, Rabishaw might not seem like your typical Hadassah member. Then again, many . . .
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
What to expect when you’re not sure you’re done expecting
By Debi Pomerantz
One night on the phone, she confesses to me about the "voices" -- the voices in her head that keep telling her she feels empty. I tell her the story . . .
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Student on track to become first black female rabbi
By Sue Fishkoff
Alysa Stanton-Ogulnick isn't particularly interested in being a standard-bearer.
She's proud to be black, proud to be a woman and proud to be a . . .
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Tolerance Museum director doesn’t tolerate status quo
By Elyse Glickman
The Museum of Tolerance is rarely the same experience twice, even with its permanent exhibits. New visuals, soundtracks and materials are added to . . .
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Researchers stop biological clock during chemo
By Karin Kloosterman
Girls as young as 14 who are exposed to chemotherapy for treating breast cancer, Hodgkin's disease, and other non-malignant diseases such as lupus, . . .
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Gender equity lags in Jewish organizations
By Sue Fishkoff
It's been 45 years since the U.S. Congress passed the Equal Pay Act, making it illegal to pay men more than women for the same . . .
Thursday, April 17, 2008
The intercontinental JConnector dreams big
By Danielle Berrin
Just try to put Michal Taviv in a box -- she won't . . .
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Leading . . . by pulling back
By Amy Klein
When Lori Schneide was 16 years old, she lived in India for the summer.
"I had this deep impression of calling," she said. "There's something we all . . .
Thursday, February 14, 2008
The hi-tech gadgets women need now!
By Beth Levine
Major manufacturers think that all they have to do is make the product pink to win us over. But, you won't find many women lost in a gooey haze over . . .
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Women’s Heart Health 101
By Jenny Stamos
Advice about cholesterol for . . .
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Finding the sacred in the mundane
By Amy Klein
Now, following the latest publishing craze of themed Jewish anthologies comes "Bread and Fire: Jewish Women Find God in the Everyday" (Urim . . .
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Counting my bruchas
By Fredricka R. Maister
They say brakha, I say brucha in referring to BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations, the strong predictors of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer found . . .
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Color me spiritual
By Amy Klein
It's another bright sunny day in Encino, but Deborah Gordon manages to almost outshine the sun. In her hot pink and purple ensemble -- from . . .
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Groups offer hope and support for advanced breast cancer patients
By Francesca Lunzer Kritz
Ever since Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards, announced that her breast cancer had recurred and was treatable, . . .
