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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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.
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Hadassah’s Promising New Treatment for Heart FailureThe 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 CareIlana 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 RightsPost-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 CrisisMore 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 AustraliaTwo 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 AdvocateWomen 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 NeedA 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 MentorIn 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 HospitalsAs 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.
Relax, Stretch, BirthThe women sitting silently in the hospital waiting room are all riding the infertility roller coaster. Some tap on their phones, others read, mostTo Their Hearts’ ContentA flexible spaghetti-like tube, perhaps the width of 15 hairs, slides into a vein or artery and is pushed gently through a maze of blood-filledManaging ADHD at Hadassah HospitalIn the United States, more than a quarter of the children affected by it are expelled from school for disruptive behavior and over a thirdDiabetes on the GoA new smartphone application will soon join some 25,000 already out there, and it just may save your life. Called Dario, this new generation inGenetic Research into Parkinson’s DiseaseFamous actor Michael J. Fox is well known both for living with Parkinson’s disease as well as for spearheading the search for a cure. TheGene TrackersA group of Hadassah doctors and researchers are hunting down the biological roots of rare pediatric disorders.Stem Cells in MindIn January 2012, the chairman of Alzheimer’s research at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York e-mailed a man he had yet to meet with anMedicine: The Self-Healing HeartCorn Flakes, X-rays, Viagra, Post-it notes, safety glass, rubber, penicillin and microwave ovens all improbably share a key factor: Each was invented by accident, whenFooter Menu Column 2
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