Merissa Nathan Gerson
By Merissa Nathan Gerson
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Food Shabbat Dinner at the Chinese Herbalist’s Home
The kitchen walls are coated, floor to ceiling, in tiny bags of Chinese herbs, their Chinese names transliterated beneath them. In the living room the art is simple — charts of the body, the channels and meridians for acupuncture. There are enough couches to seat a family of fifteen. You don’t expect Chabadnicks to become…
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News Delving Into Jewish Roots for Source of Her Epilepsy
When I started having seizures at the age of 7, no one ever suggested an exorcism. No one sent me to discuss with a rabbi what was going on inside my writhing body, or to try incantations, or amulet prayers, or minyan circles, for the sake of extricating the spirits. My motor seizure disorder was…
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