Five of the world’s top tattoo artists traveled to Israel this week to ink Israelis injured in terrorism and war. A project of the group Artists 4 Israel, which beautifies Israeli bomb shelters, the Healing Ink event sought to exhibit the power of tattooing to help trauma victims externalize their pain. Tattoos are prohibited in…
One out of every four of us struggles with mental illness, yet most people we speak with about this feel so alone. We have been giving people living with mental illness and addiction a place to share stories and strategies, to feel accepted and safe, and to let go of, for many, decades of shame….
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…
