Maimonides said it plainly: “there is health and illness to the soul, just as there is health and illness for the body has health and gets sick.” (Shemoneh Perakim 3) And there’s a prayer for that. Generally recited when the Torah is in the process of being read and the congregation’s spirit is most intent,…
Much of the discussion in faith community efforts to improve diagnosis and treatment of brain diseases — and social support of those who have them — has lately focused on three areas: 1) Planning a Sabbath of Inclusion or “Mental Health Weekend of Faith” either for your local Jewish community or your city’s larger combined…
The Shimon Peres haters — and they are many — are coming out in full force already, preying on his would-be memory while his life hangs in the balance. Even as his family grows optimistic that he will recover following a massive stroke, these haters are trying to undermine the inevitable hagiography that looms and…
TV doctor Drew Pinsky has said he is “gravely concerned” about Hillary Clinton’s health, feeding conspiracy theories about the Democratic candidate after Republican Donald Trump suggested she is not healthy enough to hold office. The Jewish personality told KABC Radio’s Doug McIntyre that he and another physician were left worried after reviewing Clinton’s medical records…
My 450-pound dad had been in every diet known to man — Akins, Weight Watcher’s, The Cabbage Soup Diet, The Tapeworm Diet. When nothing worked his bosses at McCann Erickson ad agency sent him on a six-month paid medical leave to the “Fat Farm” at Duke University, where he would be expected to lose a…
JERUSALEM — Former Israeli President Shimon Peres was released from the hospital for the second time in less than two weeks after returning with chest pains and an irregular heartbeat. Peres was released Tuesday from Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer two days after being readmitted with a slight heart arrhythmia, his spokesman said in…
Israeli elder statesman Shimon Peres was stable in hospital on Thursday after successfully undergoing minor surgery for a constricted artery that had caused chest pain, officials said. The 92-year-old former prime minister and president “feels well and is fully conscious,” after the catheterisation procedure at a hospital near Tel Aviv, his spokeswoman said. Rafi Valden,…
David Sarna’s problem began a little more than 20 years ago with an ear infection. While they were examining him, doctors discovered he had high blood pressure and a small amount of kidney damage. For Sarna, who was in his early 40s, it was the first inkling of kidney disease. Sarna did everything he could…
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