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.
Medicine: A Dream Becomes RealityJerusalemites are a conservative bunch. The now popular Knesset building was disliked for a decade following its 1966 inauguration, and the jury is still outMedicine: Equality Down to the MarrowLast June, the popular Saudi Arabian daily Al-Watan had something positive to say about its regional neighbor. Columnist Fawaz al-’Ilmi told readers that “the only registry inMedicine: Fire in the BellyGenerals know that an army marches on its stomach, and pre- (and even post-) feminists frequently route their way to a man’s heart through hisMedicine: Natural BirthdaysIn Alabama 100 years ago, midwives wrapped a laboring woman in her husband’s shirt and cap, so his energy could help her with the birth.Medicine: Ending Epilepsy With a MapAs her chest tightened and her surroundings segued into slow motion, Yelena knew what was coming. Unable to help herself, her head jerked sharply left.Medicine: A Race That All Will WinJerusalem’s streets have known the tramp of Assyrians, Babylonians and Greeks, of Romans, Byzantines and Crusaders, Gay Priders and political protesters, of the disabled andCommentary: Our Bodies, Our HomesI recently spent two nights with my sister and her husband, Joshua Cahan, at a private beach house on the Pacific. The trip was aMedicine: Master StonebreakerThe story begins with a 16-year-old boy who first hears of a cutting-edge technology on television and grows up to not only operate the machineFooter Menu Column 2
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