“Trephination” was a luxury of the wealthy.
In America, nearly 18 percent of altruistic donors are Orthodox Jews.
An exhibit includes a 16th-century Yiddish version of a Latin anatomy textbook.
Making suicide “socially acceptable.”
Talmudic medicine and bad research.
The sages downplay the role of God and sin in human illness and health.
Beware the slippery slopes to the north.
Mordechai Wolff Haffkine “savior of humanity.”
Promising new technologies raise religious questions.
Forty-four states permit religious exemptions from vaccines, but many religious authorities are loath to support them.
Cancel culture, 13th-century style.
The Jewish state’s COVID-19 doctrine.
The dangers of dismissing the idea that human life is inherently sacred.
Meeting Maimonides and fulfilling a dream.
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