Health / Nutrition

By Dr Norman Blumenthal In response to the fatal suicides of preadolescent children in recent months, OHEL Children’s Home and Family Services is refocusing attention on these tragic events with...

An adult who arrived on an international flight through JFK International Airport has been diagnosed with an active case of measles. Nassau County health officials said Wednesday that the...

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman Two million dollars a year, just for medication? For one person? And who exactly should pay for that? More and more medicines are carrying such a...

BY MARCY OSTER (JTA) — The measles outbreak concentrated in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in New York City is considered over. There have been no new infections over the last two incubation...

This article originally appeared on Kveller. I’m a 40-year-old virgin. I’m also Orthodox, single and, after a few failed rounds of artificial insemination and one IVF cycle, I am now about to...

By Rivka Markowitz, OD Q: My child failed the vision screening, should I really be concerned? A: Vision screenings are, thankfully, commonplace at your child’s pediatric office and/or school. The purpose...

By Yochanan Gordon Alexander Olshanetsky composed the famous Klezmer tune Mayn Shtetele Belz sometime during the 1850s, a song that possesses strong yearnings for an era that, despite the affluence of...

The death of a child is an unimaginably heart-wrenching tragedy that can impact the daily lives of those who have endured it. While the age of a child has...

Israeli doctors at a Jerusalem hospital have saved a one-and-a-half-year-old Syrian toddler with a heart defect whose parents fled with him from the carnage of their country’s civil war. The...

Put 18 pulpit rabbis in one room for a week and what do you get? While this sounds like a good opening line for a derashah or a rabbi joke,...