The articles are interesting and the money goes for a great cause. I highly recommend it.
This magazine is beautifully printed and illustrated. The print is
large and easy to read. ( Years ago, it was a large-tabloid size,
news-print affair....but, thank goodness, it has become more stream-
lined, and....even if there is less info in it, at least it is of
a paper type more ameniable to people reading and keeping it! )
The articles have toned down as well...they are now more centrist, and
some articles even have an Arab perspective or two, a sympathetic
and Humanistic view. This is all to the good...as the stridency of
years past was something very difficult for me to read.
However....HADASSAH officially calls itself: "HADASSAH INTERNATIONAL"
-or at least it does in its excellent "YOUTUBE" videos... I always expected at least half the material to be on what Jewish people -and particularly,
Jewish women -were doing around the world. But no...it is all slanted
to Israel, and what the people THERE are doing. Once in a while, a
four-to-eight page supplement, "THE AMERICAN SCENE", is added, (at least in the American edition....I can only hope other countries at least have supplements entitled: "The Canadian Scene", "The Canadian Scene", etc., as
well -but even this is not what I had always expected....quite the
reverse!) If HADASSAH, INTERNATIONAL is indeed an INTERNATIONAL Jewish organization and magazine....shouldn't
at least half of every issue be devoted to what Jewish women, WORLD-WIDE,
are doing?
In one issue, years ago, it was stated that "being Jewish, and FEELING
Jewish are two different things." I guess they were right in this.
Somehow, though born Jewish, I have never really FELT Jewish. I have
always felt simply HUMAN, like the rest of Humanity. To me, ethnic
differences pale beside the great simularities that make EVERYONE
A HUMAN Being. Perhaps HADASSAH Magazine would gain a wider reader-
ship -of both Jews and Gentiles -if they were to concentrate on
SIMULARITIES between Jews and others, and not the differences. In
dping so, HADASSAH could go a long way in fighting anti-semitism...
because it's real hard to hate people who are more similar than
differnt from you.
HADASSAH Magazine has come a long way from the xenophobic, almost
paranoid publication it was twenty years ago. I can only hope it
will continue -by showing more articles on WORLDWIDE Jewish life,
-and so reflect, more correctly, upon the name, 'HADASSAH, INTERNATIONAL", and also maybe even have a few articles on world-wide
Christian, Moslem, Buddist, and Humanist life. My rabbi
taught us that all people are equal under ONE God. Only God is different.
And we are ALL His equally-beautiful creations! This Humanistic side of
Judaism should be emphasized, I feel...in HADASSAH Magazine, and elsewhere. It can only serve to make everyone feel more comfortable with each other, world-wide!
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