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Opinion For Jews who struggle with eating disorders, Passover is a monumental challenge
Not everyone with an eating disorder is ready to eat when a food-based ritual demands it
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News Founded by New York social workers, this non-profit rescues Israeli youth from suicide, prostitution and despair
Founded by a group of social workers on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, ELEM now serves 12,500 Israeli youth a year, both Jewish and Arab
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Opinion I’m an Israeli first responder. The Meron disaster taught me the importance of mental health
I think that it is imperative for any and all first responders to pursue help after having witnessed a traumatic incident.
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Fast Forward Stereotypes say Orthodox Jews avoid mental health treatment. The science says otherwise.
A new study counters the assumption that Orthodox Jews are reluctant to seek treatment for mental illness. It also concludes that when experiencing lower grade anxiety and depression, they pursue professional help more so than the general population. Writing in this month’s issue of the journal Transcultural Psychiatry, the study’s authors note stereotypes of Orthodox…
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Culture Is ‘Charm Circle’ a Jewish ‘Grey Gardens,’ or a failed therapy session?
The first thing I did after finishing “Charm Circle” was clean my room. Named for a patch of Kew Garden Hills in Queens, NY, where red brick semidetached homes form a pseudo suburb, the documentary by Nira Burstein is as intimate — and dirty — as filmmaking gets. Burstein follows her parents, Uri and Raya,…
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Culture Simone Biles prioritized her health. Kerri Strug never had the chance to.
As the rhinestones on her leotards declare, Simone Biles is the G.O.A.T. — the greatest gymnast of all time. Her record-breaking flips and twists have won her 30 gold, silver and bronze medals over her years competing at the Olympics and World Championships. So when she pulled out of the Olympic women’s team gymnastics final…
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Fast Forward White Jewish academic admits she pretended to be Black for years
Jessica Krug, an Associate Professor of African Studies at George Washington University, admitted in a lengthy Medium post that she had spent years pretending to be Black. “I have eschewed my lived experience as a white Jewish child in suburban Kansas City under various assumed identities within a Blackness that I had no right to…
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