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.
Jewish Women Fight Period PovertyFrom United Nations panels to high school groups, from rabbis to lawmakers, the topic of menstruation is calling people—including Jewish women—into action.When the Right T-Shirt Makes a Big DifferenceProviding special zippered shirts for pediatric cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.Volunteering at Our HospitalsThere are hundred of volunteers at Hadassah, from young men and women to retirees. Their contributions of time, talent and expertise are an integral part of HMO.When Counting Sheep Doesn’t WorkThere are 84 disorders of the biological process called sleep that are classified into six groups, all of which are addressed at the Hadassah clinic.Pregnancy as a Time MachineI say that pregnancy is a time machine: It helps us travel to our bodies in the future.Lessons From Super-AgersResearch on Ashkenazi centenarians by doctors in the United States and in Israel show us how to grow older without getting sicker.Hadassah Clinic Tackles the Lingering Effects of Covid-19Just when it seems to those who have recovered from Covid-19 that the virus has thrown its final punch, it delivers one more.Footer Menu Column 2
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