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What Happens to Jewish Food Culture in the Age of Ozempic?
GLP-1 drugs are transforming weight loss and medicine. They’re also changing how some Jews experience everything from holiday meals to the Yom Kippur fast.

GLP-1 drugs are transforming weight loss and medicine. They’re also changing how some Jews experience everything from holiday meals to the Yom Kippur fast.
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Hadassah’s Promising New Treatment for Heart Failure
The doctors who treated Israeli-Palestinian vlogger Nas Daily’s grandmother are now exploring the gut-heart connection.

The doctors who treated Israeli-Palestinian vlogger Nas Daily’s grandmother are now exploring the gut-heart connection.
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Black and Jewish Moms Unite to Fight Bias in Maternity Care
Ilana Ybgi’s newly launched Crown Heights Birth Justice Project addresses antisemitism and racial bias through the lens of Black Jewish identity.

Ilana Ybgi’s newly launched Crown Heights Birth Justice Project addresses antisemitism and racial bias through the lens of Black Jewish identity.
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Jewish Women Mobilize For Reproductive Rights
Post-Dobbs legal challenges to IVF mark a new front in the fight over reproductive rights, as Hadassah and other Jewish groups push back to protect access to care.

Post-Dobbs legal challenges to IVF mark a new front in the fight over reproductive rights, as Hadassah and other Jewish groups push back to protect
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Hadassah Treats Israel’s Post–October 7 Mental Health Crisis
More than two years after the Nova music festival attacks, Hadassah’s psychologists are still treating a nation gripped by trauma, anxiety and survivor’s guilt

More than two years after the Nova music festival attacks, Hadassah’s psychologists are still treating a nation gripped by trauma, anxiety and survivor’s guilt
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Hadassah Exports Trauma Treatment to Australia
Two days after the Bondi Beach attack, Hadassah psychologist Osnat Goori Mussel was on the ground helping treat the trauma.

Two days after the Bondi Beach attack, Hadassah psychologist Osnat Goori Mussel was on the ground helping treat the trauma.
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How to Become a Health Care Advocate
Women need the tools and language to demand more from a medical system that often asks them to endure suffering quietly or questions their experiences.

Women need the tools and language to demand more from a medical system that often asks them to endure suffering quietly or questions their experiences.
The Jewish Self-Help Books We Desperately Need
A recent wave of books continues the Jewish tradition of turning to spiritual and rabbinical texts for help navigating modern-day challenges.

A recent wave of books continues the Jewish tradition of turning to spiritual and rabbinical texts for help navigating modern-day challenges.
Books
How I Reluctantly Found Purpose as a Cancer Mentor
In an excerpt from her new memoir, ‘The End of My Life Is Killing Me,’ Anabelle Gurwitch sits shiva for the ‘angel’ who helped her navigate lung cancer.

In an excerpt from her new memoir, ‘The End of My Life Is Killing Me,’ Anabelle Gurwitch sits shiva for the ‘angel’ who helped her
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Stories From Hadassah’s Underground Hospitals
As Iranian missiles targeted Jerusalem, patients and staff moved below ground, where care continues amid fear, loss and resilience.

As Iranian missiles targeted Jerusalem, patients and staff moved below ground, where care continues amid fear, loss and resilience.
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Jewish Women Are Leading the Menopause Movement
A long-ignored stage of women’s lives is suddenly in the medical and cultural spotlight.

A long-ignored stage of women’s lives is suddenly in the medical and cultural spotlight.

In Israel, More Doctors Changing Approach to End-of-Life Care

Doctors now increasingly favor palliative care for terminal patients at the end of their lives rather than aggressive medical interventions

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How to Get the Sleep You Need

by Christina Frank

Around 30 percent of adults experience some form of insomnia during their lifetime, and women especially battle sleep loss due to pregnancy and menopause.

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Redefining Hospital Food at Hadassah

by Wendy Elliman

The kitchens at Hadassah Hospital are redefining hospital food with menus that are nutritious, delicious and designed to appeal—and heal.

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How to Make a Difference for Women Battling Breast Cancer

by Rokhl Kafrissen | JTA

According to the author, it's time to shift breast cancer giving away from a focus on consumable goods and toward a person-oriented, direct giving model.

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Cancer Recovery Prescription—Exercise

by Leah Rosenbaum

Doctors don’t know exactly why exercise works wonders for cancer survivors, but most agree that there are both short- and long-term benefits to working out.