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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.
Books
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.

Let’s Talk About Dying: End-of-Life Planning

The desire to escape death, combined with the widespread availability of life-prolonging technology, has led to patients often getting swept onto what I call “the end-of-life conveyor belt.”

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Mourning Infant Loss in the Garden of Memory

by Wendy Elliman

An Israeli site gives strength to women after perinatal infant loss.

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The New (Old) Cannabis Consumer

by Carol Saline

Use of medical marijuana among seniors reaches a new high.

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Helping Ethiopian Israeli Find Careers in Nursing

by Wendy Elliman

Achotenu removes the barriers that prevent young Ethiopians from pursuing a degree in nursing.

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Repairing Defects Before Birth

by Wendy Elliman

Hadassah-trained obstetrician Dr. Yuval Gielchinsky established Hadassah’s Center for Fetal Medicine five years ago.

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Reading Your Way to a Healthy Diet

by Carol Saline

These special-health diet books, all released in 2016, look critically at the gluten obsession and explain the mind-body connection—including what to eat to keep your memory sharp.