Hadassah Great Plains

08/21/2026

Click here to read the weekly Here & Now newsletter, featuring news and upcoming events in and around Hadassah Great Plains and a message from our region president, Sharon Star: https://bit.ly/4ig9gig

08/20/2026

🚨 New Jewish exhibit alert!
"All We Have Standing Between Us: 250 Years of Jews and American Democracy" is now on view through December 31, 2026 at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan.
Presented by The American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS)
and the Yeshiva University Museum, the exhibition’s 75 artifacts from throughout Jewish American history invite visitors to consider how Jews have participated in the nation’s defining debates and helped shape its democratic ideals, from labor rights and voting access to immigration and religious freedom.

In honor of America’s 250th anniversary, a new exhibition in Manhattan highlights how Jews have shaped the nation’s defining debates and democratic ideals.

08/20/2026

Join Hadassah Minneapolis St. Paul on October 25 as we play games and get together for an afternoon of fun and prize drawings! Games offered: Canasta, Cribbage, Mah Jongg, Mexican Train, Rummikub, and Scrabble. Register here: https://bit.ly/43ocAzd

08/19/2026

"My mother had carried Morocco across the Atlantic in her hands, and she rebuilt it, one meal at a time, with American appliances and spices she had to hunt down," writes Moroccan-born author Ruth Knafo Setton. "The kitchen was her country. Cinnamon was its flag.”
✨ What food or spice brings you back to your childhood?

For three generations, a dash of cinnamon has carried my Moroccan Jewish family's memories, traditions and recipes across America.

08/18/2026

As widespread resistance to common antibiotics rises globally, a new global project — funded by a European Union grant — will bring together 20 research and clinical partners from 13 countries to investigate whether bacteriophages — viruses that naturally infect and destroy bacteria — can serve as a safe and effective alternative to conventional antibiotic therapies.
Dr. Ran Nir-Paz of the Hadassah Medical Organization, who will help lead the Israeli contingent, is one of the pioneers of clinical use of phages to treat hard to eradicate bacterial infections, and a co-leader of the Israeli Phage Therapy Center.

Released Aug 04, 2026. Hadassah is part of one of largest global trials to evaluate phage therapy’s potential as alternative for antibiotic-resistant urinary tract infections.

08/18/2026

How is artificial intelligence changing women's health care today? Join Springfield Hadassah Sept 9 to learn what these advances mean for you, your health, and the care you receive. For more info or to register, email [email protected].

08/17/2026

"A documentary recasts the folk singer’s legacy through the influence of his mother-in-law, Yiddish poet Aliza Greenblatt."

A documentary recasts the folk singer’s legacy through the influence of his mother-in-law, Yiddish poet Aliza Greenblatt.

08/16/2026

Act now! US and Israeli medical providers are leading the world in life-saving care and innovative health advancements. Congress is considering legislation that would strengthen US-Israel health research collaboration and speed up the next generation of breakthroughs. Urge lawmakers to pass this critical legislation today!

Urge Congress to support the US-Israel relationship through medical partnerships!

08/14/2026

Click here to read the weekly Here & Now newsletter, featuring news and upcoming events in and around Hadassah Great Plains and a message from our region president, Sharon Star: https://bit.ly/4zhNPDE

08/13/2026

Can you be fully American and fully Jewish?
“Jews may captain industries and rise to some of the highest offices in the land. But these accomplishments cannot assuage the anxieties over roadblocks that bar Jews from living fully American lives and fully Jewish lives,” writes historian Pamela S. Nadell, author of "Antisemitism, an American Tradition."
“Perhaps we can draw from the past, knowing that our predecessors navigated the ambivalent embrace of their times, as we face ours in this moment and into the future.”
➡️ Continue reading Nadell’s “Compromise and Hard Choices for Jews in America” in Hadassah Magazine:

From the nation’s founding to the present, generations of Jews have wrestled with the same question: How do you become fully American without ceasing to be fully Jewish?