Jewish New Yorkers should be concerned about the monkeypox vaccine rollout
The monkeypox surge is only the latest example of marginalized peoples’ needs being ignored by the government
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Culture How Ady Barkan’s story sparked a movement
Editor’s Note: “Not Going Quietly” is premiering on PBS’ “POV” Monday, Jan. 24 at 10 p.m. To mark it’s TV debut we have republished this interview with director Nicholas Bruckman from August 11, 2021. When Nicholas Bruckman met Ady Barkan in early 2018, he was prepared to be bummed out. Barkan had just confronted then-Senator…
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Opinion Elder care is a Jewish imperative. So is paying home health workers a living wage
As a 21-year-old heading off to social work school, I watched my Bubby Jenny die within six months of being put into a nursing home following a stroke. My mother and uncle, her brother, felt helpless and were shattered by both the experience and by their mother’s bitterness toward them at sending her away. There…
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News Jews Now Have A Faith-Based Alternative To Health Insurance. But It’s Risky.
Two years after Randy Mazie retired, he realized his family had a serious healthcare problem: His wife’s health insurance premiums had reached $1,400 a month. After some online research Mazie, who lives in Miami and used to run transportation for local public schools, found something he thought was a godsend: United Refuah HealthShare, a Jewish…
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Life Ady Barkan Will Die For Your Sins: Meet The Man Giving His Last Breath To Democracy
You’re dying, but Ady Barkan, 34, is dying faster. Maybe there are abnormal cells in your skin; maybe there’s plaque in your interior arteries; maybe you’ll be hit by a car. Ady Barkan’s death is less of a mystery. His motor neurons are dying, melting his muscles and gradually rendering his body uninhabitable. As he…
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Opinion Healthcare Is The Civil Rights Issue Of Our Time
Last week, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stunned election-night reaction rooms around the country by winning the Democratic primary for New York’s 14th congressional district. Ocasio-Cortez is a 28-year-old DSA member with a degree in economics from Boston University. She helped organize for Senator Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign during the 2016 Democratic presidential primary. After the coming election…
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Community Cutting Reproductive Healthcare Hurts Women — And Rejects Jewish Teaching
When I go to my doctor, I worry about many things. Will they find anything new or worrisome? Will I have to suffer through a painful shot? Will they realize I don’t floss? I have never worried whether or not my doctor was using the full range of their knowledge to advise and treat me…
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Fast Forward Bernie’s Single-Payer Plan Is Winning Over Democrats
When presented during his presidential campaign in 2016, Bernie Sanders’ idea of universal healthcare, known as a single-payer system, was widely rejected by fellow Democratic politicians, who preferred to side with Hillary Clinton’s more modest idea of making minor modifications to the Affordable Care Act. But now, Democrats are coming around to embrace the Sanders…
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