If thinking you’re sick can make you feel sick, is there a way to train your brain — and your body — to reverse that process and restore you to health?
That’s the central question that Tamar Koren, an MD-PhD candidate at the Technion–Israel...
Members of the media wear protective masks film outside the Young Israel of New Rochelle, a suburban New York town at the center of a coronavirus outbreak in Westchester County, March 10, 2020. On June 6, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the reopening...
By Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published May 28, 2020
While countless models have projected health outcomes for various responses to the coronavirus pandemic, Arye Nehorai, a professor of electrical engineering at Washington University, had not seen models that offered both public health and economic projections.So...
French Rabbi Philippe Haddad prepares for a Shabbat service via videoconference at the Copernic Synagogue in Paris, March 28, 2020. (Stephane de Sakutin/AFP via Getty Images)
Members of the media wear protective masks film outside the Young Israel of New Rochelle, a suburban New York town at the center of a coronavirus outbreak in Westchester County, March 10, 2020. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images)
The Marcus Foundation has awarded a $3.2 million grant to Foundation for Jewish Camp (FJC) for supporting mental health across the spectrum of Jewish camps in North America. Funding will be awarded to approximately 60 camps over four years in an effort...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published October 17, 2019
As a well-respected physician, innovative medical school professor and award-winning researcher in the mechanisms of insulin secretion, Stanley Misler has had quite a career in the sciences. But since a 2015 retirement from his work as a nephrologist...
By Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published April 25, 2019
Rabbis in the St. Louis Orthodox Jewish community recently launched a campaign to encourage members of their synagogues to obtain measles vaccinations in response to outbreaks in Detroit, New York and Israel.The clergy coordinated with the St. Louis County...
BY DAVID LAUGHER, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published March 21, 2019
Rabbi Jessica Shafrin would like to start a conversation even if she knows that the topic of death isn’t one people are always eager to broach. “People don’t like to think about their life ending,” said Shafrin, 33. “Maybe they don’t want...
David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published January 17, 2019
A new health facility is up and running to provide services to residents of Covenant Place as well as to older adults in the surrounding neighborhood.“Things are going really well,” said Joan Denison, executive director of the senior housing complex...
“Greet everyone with a warm, cheerful, and pleasant countenance.” (Pirkei Avot 1:15)There are a myriad of programs, classes, events and activities just waiting for someone to register; the list of options for involvement, connecting and engaging with...
BY DAVID BAUGHER, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published May 17, 2018
When 15-year-old Micah Schwartz plays board games with his grandmother Dorothy, he doesn’t mind if they have to adapt the rules a bit. The important thing is that they are getting to spend time together.“I always felt a real connection with her because...
