A Knesset committee approved a physician-assisted suicide bill. The bill passed the Ministerial Committee on Legislation Sunday by a vote of 8 to 2. The vote was appealed Monday by Senior Citizens Minister Uri Orbach of the Jewish Home party, who called the bill a “pill of death.” The bill allows a doctor to prescribe…
Israeli security forces in the occupied West Bank caught a Palestinian man wearing an explosive belt on Friday, police and the military said, preventing what could have been the first suicide attack in the area for years. Border police guarding a busy junction near the Palestinian city of Nablus were suspicious about the man who…
School massacres have become so commonplace that they scarcely shock us anymore. And yet, occasionally mayhem invades the sanctity of the classroom in a way that can still puncture our complacency. At these moments we’re reminded how fragile is this thing we call civilization. Such was the case February 10 in a rural schoolroom outside…
This story was translated from Yiddish by Frimet Goldberger. A version first appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Motie (Abe) Weiss and Deborah (Deb) Tambor, a young couple in love living in Bridgeton, N.J,, had a beautiful tradition: Each morning at 9 a.m., Tambor would make a cup of coffee and bring it to his workplace,…
Deb Tambor ended her own life in response to being ostracized by her family in the upstate Hasidic enclave of New Square, N.Y. in Rockland County, her friends say. And though most Hasidim who leave insular communities don’t end their own lives, they face many of the same challenges. Tambor, who grew up in New…
● The Guardians: An Elegy By Sarah Manguso Picador, 104 pages, $20. American Jewish author Sarah Manguso’s “The Guardians: An Elegy” is a strip map of a memoir about Manguso’s grief at the suicide of a close friend, a klezmer musician who suffered from recurring psychosis. Lean, elliptical and beautifully written, her book, recently released…
The State Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday released for publication previously embargoed materials from the investigation into the cause of death of alleged Mossad agent Ben Zygier, also known as Prisoner X. Along with the release of the materials, the Prosecutor’s Office announced that it would not serve any indictments against Prison Service personnel involved in…
A Harlem mother jumped eight stories to her death with her 10-month-old son strapped to her chest —miraculously, the baby survived. Cynthia Wachenheim, 44, landed on her back allowing baby Keston to roll away unscathed after the impact, the New York Daily News reported Wednesday. Wachenheim, left a 13-page suicide note for her husband, Hal…
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