Weight Loss Struggles: A Full Week
Dear Alice,
I had a busy week. I had a wedding one night, a bar mitzvah another night, and went away for Shabbos. I was so proud of how well...
Hearing Loss And Your Loved Ones: Communicating Without Enabling
By Dr. Esther Fogel
Hearing loss can be uniquely challenging for the family members of an individual with hearing loss, but clear and open communication can make all the difference....
The Vein Of My Existence
By David T. Jacobs, MD
A gentleman recently presented to my office with longstanding aching and heaviness in the legs. Over the last few years, large, bulging veins began to...
The Responsibility Vaccine
By Yochanan Gordon
We live in a multidimensional world where things can be perceived on varying levels. So while it seems that, on the face of it, the merits and...
NYS Ends Religious Exemptions for Vaccinations
NEW YORK (JTA) — New York state has banned religious exemptions to vaccinations, meaning that parents must vaccinate their children unless there is a medical reason not to.
The state...
NSPC’s Dr. Jonathan Brisman Only L.I. Neurosurgeon On New York Magazine’s New “Best Docs”...
Jonathan L. Brisman, MD, has been named, again, to the just-published New York Magazine’s “Best Doctors” list. He has been recognized by his peers, each year, since 2013. And...
Getting Back On Track After The Holidays
By Alice Harrosh
We just finished a three-day holiday! To someone like me, the first thing that comes to mind is: TOO MUCH EATING!
As always, I gave out guidelines to...
9th Williamsburg School Closed Under Measles Emergency
NEW YORK (JTA) — New York City is shuttering an Orthodox school in Brooklyn because it has continued to admit unvaccinated students in violation of a city order.
The Central...
Magen David Adom in Action
Magen David Adom is helping save lives, not just in Israel, but around the world; almost everywhere there is a local Hatzalah ambulance team. That’s because Magen David Adom...
Jean Gluck Memory Care and Wellness Services Dedicated at AFLH Dinner
Hundreds of supporters of Laniado Hospital, family, and friends of eminent philanthropist Eugen Gluck and his late wife, the legendary eishes chayil, Jean Gluck, a’h, packed the ballroom of...
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Taking the Shul on the Road
My shul is moving. To be fair, it’s been “moving” for about two years now. But it’s actually moving as I’m writing this. I’m...
ADL Protests Christians-Only Policy at NC Adoption Agency
BY CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
(JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League condemned what it called government-sanctioned discriminatory practices at an evangelical adoption agency in North Carolina with government...
Jews, Jewish Themes Rake In Emmy Nominations
(JTA) — It’s Emmy season again and Jews in the TV industry have plenty of reason to celebrate.
Out of all the nominees announced Tuesday,...