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Latest Episodes:

Ayelet Tsabari: Songs from a Yemeni Israeli Legacy May 30, 2025

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 founding of the modern state of Israel, as thousands of Yemeni Jews arrived seeking a better life; the other in the 1990s, just before the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, when a young Yemeni Israeli woman uncovers her mother’s secret romance through a dramatic journey into lost family stories.

Ayelet discusses the complex history of Yemeni Jews in Israel, drawing on her own family background that inspired her novel and highlighting the central role of music in Yemeni culture and in her lyrical storytelling.

Further Resources

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CHUTZPAH GIRLS with Mayim Bialik May 05, 2025

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 Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and dozens more remarkable leaders, in the new book Chutzpah Girls: 100 Tales of Daring Jewish Women.

Co-authors, Julie Esther Silverstein and Tami Schlossberg Pruwer discuss powerful stories of both famous and less-well-known women with chutzpah to awaken your pride, inspire you to explore your heritage, and dream bigger than ever before.

Further Resources

Purchase a copy ofChutzpah Girls: 100 Tales of Daring Jewish Women
Read New Books Spotlight the Jewish Female Heroes We Need in Hadassah Magazine

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The show is hosted by Hadassah Magazine Executive Editor Lisa Hostein and produced by Hadassah Magazine with the support of the Engagement and Marketing divisions of Hadassah.

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A Conversation with Dara Horn Apr 30, 2025

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 People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present.

She says she has been “completely obsessed” with Passover since she was a child and sees a link between her new graphic novel, One Little Goat: A Passover Catastrophe, and the nonfiction work that has made her a leading voice in the discussion of the global rise of antisemitism. Pesach, she says, represents the “institutionalization of resilience.”

Further Resources

Purchase a copy of One Little Goat: A Passover Catastrophe
Read our review of the book

Follow Hadassah Magazine Presents wherever you get your favorite podcasts. Liked this episode? Share it with a friend and help others discover our podcast by writing a review.

Get more of Hadassah Magazine! Follow us on Instagram and Facebook and subscribe to get the latest print magazine delivered to your mailbox.

The show is hosted by Hadassah Magazine Executive Editor Lisa Hostein and produced by Hadassah Magazine with the support of the Engagement and Marketing divisions of Hadassah.

Please send any follow-up questions or feedback to engagement@hadassah.org

The Enduring Relevance of Anne Frank Apr 21, 2025

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 discussion on the legacy of Anne Frank and her best-selling diary, which has been published in more than 70 languages. Panelists include Ruth Franklin, author of the biography The Many Lives of Anne Frank, and Professor Doyle Stevick, executive director of the Anne Frank Center at the University of South Carolina and educational adviser to Anne Frank The Exhibition, which recreates the annex where Anne and her family hid in Amsterdam.

Further Resources

Read an excerpt from The Many Lives of Anne Frank
Purchase a copy of The Many Lives of Anne Frank
Read The ABCs of Holocaust Education in Hadassah Magazine
Read Bringing Anne Frank to New York City in Hadassah Magazine

Follow Hadassah Magazine Presents wherever you get your favorite podcasts. Liked this episode? Share it with a friend and help others discover our podcast by writing a review.

Get more of ⁠Hadassah Magazine!⁠ Follow us on ⁠Instagram⁠ and ⁠Facebook⁠ and ⁠subscribe⁠ to get the latest print magazine delivered to your mailbox.

The show is hosted by Hadassah Magazine Executive Editor Lisa Hostein and produced by Hadassah Magazine with the support of the Engagement and Marketing divisions of Hadassah.

Please send any follow-up questions or feedback to ⁠engagement@hadassah.org