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The Platforms Empowering Jewish Teens to Support Each Other
Jewish organizations have responded to the teen mental health crisis with digital programs and tools that foster resilience and empathy.

Jewish organizations have responded to the teen mental health crisis with digital programs and tools that foster resilience and empathy.
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Helping Children Deal With Trauma
Young victims of pandemic stress learn coping strategies at Hadassah Hospital.

Young victims of pandemic stress learn coping strategies at Hadassah Hospital.
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A Perfect Match: Donating a Kidney to a Stranger
Every day in America, 13 people die waiting for a kidney. Often their best hope—their only hope—is to find a living donor.

Every day in America, 13 people die waiting for a kidney. Often their best hope—their only hope—is to find a living donor.

It’s like stepping into a science-fiction cliché. The elevator glides silently down through Jerusalem’s bedrock. Four stories belowground, the doors slide open to reveal a

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Online Sex Help for Seniors

by Deborah Fineblum Schabb

The over-50 set is now more and more likely to head to their computers with issues regarding sex.

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The Cutting Edge Gets Smaller

by Wendy Elliman

Method: Take two magnets. Put one in the stomach and the other in the small intestine. Wait a week for the attraction between the magnets

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From Cancer Patient to Researcher by Age 19

by Rahel Musleah

Elana Simon was diagnosed with a rare liver cancer when she was 12. Her tumor was removed, leaving her cancer-free, but her interest in the disease remained strong.

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Big Love for Small Patients

by Wendy Elliman

Tehilla is one of some 200 children who undergo surgery for congenital heart defects at Hadassah each year.

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Go Nuts! Bamba Lessens Peanut Allergy

by Milly Ada Abraham

Turns out that Bamba, the ubiquitous-in-Israel puffed peanut snack, wards off peanut allergy in infants.

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Hadassah’s Open Heart

by Wendy Elliman

Demand for Hadassah’s PICU beds for young heart patients is intensifying as chaos engulfs the region and organizations such as the Jerusalem-based Christian NGO Shevet