Medicine

“Trephination” was a luxury of the wealthy.

Nathan Steinmeyer
March 6 2023 12:01AM

In America, nearly 18 percent of altruistic donors are Orthodox Jews.

Mendy Reiner
Jan. 10 2023 12:01AM

An exhibit includes a 16th-century Yiddish version of a Latin anatomy textbook.

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Dec. 27 2022 12:01AM

Making suicide “socially acceptable.”

Alexander Raikin
Dec. 21 2022 12:01AM

Talmudic medicine and bad research.

Shai Secunda
Oct. 6 2022 12:01AM

The sages downplay the role of God and sin in human illness and health.

Jason Mokhtarian
June 30 2022 12:01AM

Beware the slippery slopes to the north.

Theodor Dalrymple
June 7 2022 12:01AM

Mordechai Wolff Haffkine “savior of humanity.”

Saul Jay Singer
April 7 2022 12:01AM

Promising new technologies raise religious questions.

Feb. 23 2022 12:01AM

Forty-four states permit religious exemptions from vaccines, but many religious authorities are loath to support them.

Mansee Khurana
Feb. 9 2022 12:01AM

Cancel culture, 13th-century style.

Henry Abramson
Jan. 13 2022 12:01AM

The Jewish state’s COVID-19 doctrine.

Arieh Kovler
Nov. 22 2021 12:01AM

The dangers of dismissing the idea that human life is inherently sacred.

Nov. 18 2021 12:01AM

Meeting Maimonides and fulfilling a dream.

Princeton Geniza Lab
Nov. 18 2021 12:01AM