Eating disorder
Is The Orthodox Community Really Facing Mental Health Head-On?
Here, if you’re going to be mentally ill, you’d better pray that you’re the ‘right’ type of mentally ill.
Do Orthodox Jews Need Their Own Eating Disorder Programs?
Inside one young woman’s motivation to help the deeply religious overcome their eating disorders.
Why I’m Eating This Yom Kippur
Throughout college, I struggled with an eating disorder. In many ways, it first manifested itself during Yom Kippur freshman year.
Where's Nuance in Mental Illness Rhetoric?
Once again, a mass shooting tragedy has captured the nation’s attention. Once again, the question everyone wants answered is: Why? What drove Aaron Alexis to do something so awful, so incomprehensible, and seemingly so senseless? We all want to know why he did it because we want to know if there’s something we could have done to see it coming — something we can do to prevent it from happening again.
Starving for Passover
Eight days without leavened bread is no easy task for any Jew. No whole-wheat bagels with scallion cream cheese! No chewy chocolate chip cookies! No soy sauced-drenched rice! But it is especially trying for me; I am 29 years old and eight years recovered from a decade-long eating disorder. Each year, Passover’s food restrictions — a triggering behavior for any recovered bulimic or anorexic — challenges my footing.
Amy Winehouse Drank Self to Death: Inquest
An inquest concluded that Grammy Award-winning Jewish soul singer Amy Winehouse died of consuming too much alcohol.
How To Combat Teenage Girls' Angst: Educate Teenage Boys
Most Sundays I do laundry, or have brunch, or see a movie. But I spent this past Sunday immersed in various forms of female teenage angst, and what I came away with was that more boys and men should have been there with me.
