Health

PARENTING

Helping Kids Heal: When Your Child Needs Psychotherapy

Whether your child is six or sixteen, it’s important to help him understand the underlying reasons he will be seeing…

JEWISH LAW

Halachic Aspects of Vaccination

              Perhaps it is because we live in twenty-first century America, a country largely…

WELLNESS REPORT

Take Control of Your Shabbat Meal

Q: I love Shabbat, but I hate that it’s become a battleground for my eating habits. I’m careful about dieting…

WELLNESS REPORT

A Few Fasting Fixes

I always feel weak when I fast—and I get a headache halfway through the day. Can you share any nutrition…

HEALTH

Workout for the Body and Soul: Introducing Gym into the Yeshivah Curriculum

In the push to cram secular and Judaic subjects into an eight-hour day, many Orthodox day schools are leaving out…

HEALTH

Unorthodox Therapy: Should Your Therapist Be Orthodox?

How should an observant individual in psychological pain choose a therapist?

HEALTH

What does Halachah say about organ donation?

Transplant surgery is one of the wonders of modern medicine. Persons who, in the past, would have died because of…

HEALTH

The Facts Breast Cancer and Young Women

Despite the prevailing opinion that young women don’t get breast cancer, the reality is that they can and they do.…

HEALTH

Talking About Breast Cancer

An attorney and mother of two, Rochelle Shoretz served as a law clerk to US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader…

HEALTH

You Are What How You Eat

The man painting our apartment in Israel took out his lunch, washed his hands and recited the Hamotzi. Then he…

HEALTH

Beginning the Healing Process

It can happen in the best of families” is an expression often heard in regard to rebellious teenagers. Indeed, when…

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