(JTA) — Israel has ended a restriction on blood donation that effectively prohibited gay men from donating blood.
Until now, Israel had prohibited any man who had had same-sex relations over the past 12 months from giving blood. Now, the question’s...
Jordan Palmer, Digital Director, The Jewish Light
• Published August 21, 2021
In a recent survey of Jewish Light readers of both the newspaper and website, we asked if people remembered the first time they had heard of the Jewish Light? The overwhelming answer was, "When a friend or family member was mentioned in an article."
There...
(JTA) — The Argentines who placed stones in front of the Casa Rosada government building this week were marking a grim milestone in their country’s COVID-19 experience: crossing the 100,000-death threshold.
They were also echoing a Jewish...
Some people enter the world with a spasm of life, commanding attention as they jerk their way into existence. Kinda like how Kramer bursts into a room, only probably with more medical equipment and less studio audience applause.
On Wednesday, a baby...
Abigail Klein Leichman
• Published August 19, 2021
(Israel21c) - The elderly population appears to be more vulnerable to Covid-19, and vaccines are less effective in protecting them. Now we know why.
For her doctoral thesis under the guidance of immunology Prof. Doron Melamed, Technion-Israel Institute...
“The Messier Side of Parenting” introduces readers to Taryn Goldstein, 43, a St. Louis Jewish mother of four sons, ranging in age from 9 to 15. In her video blog, Goldstein will offer her no-holds-barred take on parenting, with topics ranging from...
BOSTON — Challah-eating Australian kangaroos, an adventurous cartoon retelling of the biblical story of Jonah and the welcome second-in-a-series chapter book about a young girl with a magical sense of smell are among the highlights of this year’s...
Johanna Kovitz, SPECIAL FOR THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published August 17, 2021
YiddishWit.com is a collection of Yiddish proverbs and sayings and expressions that are published in Yiddish and that lend themselves to illustration. The illustrations are created by Johanna Kovitz, and are adaptations and recombinations of existing...
Abigail Klein Leichman
• Published August 17, 2021
In February, the world’s attention was focused on Covid-19 experimental drugs. By April, with the worldwide vaccine campaign in full swing, Covid treatments didn’t seem important anymore.
Now that we know the virus isn’t going away despite...
Lea Loeb, The Jewish News Of Northern California
• Published August 16, 2021
Vitali Voskoboinik’s bright blue eyes sparkled behind his glasses as he sat in his sunny Pacifica apartment. At 79, the Holocaust refugee looked full of life; he laughed and smiled, introducing himself first in Russian, then in Hebrew, and then in English.
One...
Abigail Klein Leichman, Israel21C
• Published August 16, 2021
Even with Israel’s world-leading rollout of Covid-19 vaccinations, drugs to treat Covid patients are in desperate need across the world.
Two such drugs developed in Israel show great promise in clinical trials: EXO-CD24 and Allocetra.
EXO-CD24,...
