Jody Comins, at The Blogs

Nov 25, 2024, 6:51 AM

One Story that Shows the Impact of Hadassah’s Commitment to Israel’s Wounded

Dvir Musai is a friend I met in Israel in 2016 when I was part of a two-year Hadassah Leadership Fellowship initiative. We were a group of “#lucky16” young women from around the country who were recruited to become...

Oct 30, 2024, 8:27 PM

My Hadassah Journey: Looking Back at How It All Began

My great-grandmother made me a life member of Hadassah when I was born. A fourth-generation life member, I am now the co-chair of Evolve Engagement for National Hadassah. It’s been so fun to look back on how I got...

Oct 21, 2024, 6:40 AM

Ding Dong, The Witch is Dead….

“Ding Dong, The Witch is Dead….”, cheered the munchkins in the famed Wizard of Oz movie when Dorothy’s House accidentally landed on the Wicked Witch of the East in a tornado and killed her. Since last Thursday morning when Yahya...

Oct 16, 2024, 6:31 AM

“Doubling Down on Volunteering in Israel in a Time of War”

This is Part Three of a three-part series about my love affair with Israel. Part 2. Part 1. After I led the Evolve Hadassah Heart to Heart Mission to Israel to bear witness to the atrocities of October 7, I...

Oct 9, 2024, 6:00 AM

Volunteering in Israel in a Time of War

This is Part Two of a three-part series about my love affair with Israel. See part 1 My love affair for Israel propelled me towards an idea to spend winters in Tel Aviv. In 2023 I found an adorable apartment...

Aug 16, 2024, 1:50 AM

My 40-year love affair with Israel

Let me tell you a secret: I've been having a love affair with Israel since I was 17 years old. And my husband knows all about it! I grew up in Marblehead, Mass., where the Jewish community had its own Israeli...

May 5, 2024, 1:19 AM

Bearing Witness at MIT

This past February, I led a mission to Israel for Evolve Hadassah, the young women’s department of the Women’s Zionist Organization of America. We bore witness in some of the places that Hamas committed atrocities on October 7: Kibbutz...

Feb 27, 2024, 12:56 PM

We Interrupt This War for a Day in Paradise…

Every Sunday morning of my childhood we'd hunt around the house for quarters to bring to Hebrew school so we could put it in the Keren Kayemet (JNF) card. At the end of the year we'd have enough quarters...

Feb 9, 2024, 11:23 AM

Reflection on a Visit to Kibbutz Be’eri

Burnt house at Kibbutz Be’eri. (courtesy)

The sound of a drone drowned out the Beautiful song of birds while I heard loud Booms in the distance 2 miles from Gaza on a Picture perfect day Yarden an avocado farmer spoke about his experience from the day of the unthinkable with tears in his eyes Flowers...

Oct 29, 2023, 8:03 PM

Turn your fear on campus into activism!

When I was a senior in college at UMASS/Amherst in 1989, I came upon a group of students with their faces covered in “kefiyah” scarves standing on an Israeli flag and chanting anti-Zionist rhetoric. I had just returned from...

About Me

Jody Comins, MSW, is the National Chair of Hadassah Evolve Engagement and a member of the Hadassah Writers’ Circle. She’s a life-long Zionist and Israel activist since her early days working for the American Zionist Youth Foundation. Currently, Jody leads several annual trips for young women to Israel with Hadassah. In her professional life, she is a Divorce and Family Mediator and the author of “Speaking Out: Voices of Adult Children of Divorce.” Jody lives outside of Boston with her husband and is a “snowbird” in Tel Aviv. All of her blogs are her own personal opinions and do not represent the organizations with which she is affiliated.

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