Book Review: ‘Jews in Medicine’

Jews in Medicine, Contributions to Health and Healing through the Age by Ronald L. Eisenberg Jerusalem and New York: Urim Publications, 2019, 464 pages, $34.95 By Oliver B. Pollak JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming — This 464-page encyclopedic reference book starts with the Talmud and comes into the present including still living practitioners. The author identifies Jewish […]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish History, Oliver Pollak, Science, Medicine, & Education

Holocaust analogies? Helpful or harmful?

By Dorian de Wind AUSTIN, Texas — A Cagle cartoon at The Moderate Voice used images of Nazi concentration camps to bring attention to the plight of detained illegal immigrants and asylum seekers and their children – many separated from their parents – languishing at barbed-wire-enclosed, cage like detention centers. The final image in the

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Dorian de Wind, International, Jewish History, USA

80 groups protest SFSU Prof’s anti- Zionism posting

SANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release) — Eighty organizations on Thursday wrote to California State University (CSU) Chancellor Timothy White to alert him about San Francisco State University Professor Rabab Abdulhadi’s “hateful” posting, and to demand he take immediate action to address her “unlawful” conduct. The concerns are also being raised to CSU General Counsel Andrew

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

How later rabbis distorted the Rambam’s teachings

By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — The “Yeshiva world,” is comprised for the most part of schools where far-right rabbis teach Jewish students their view of Judaism, a religion that rejects secular studies as harmful and heretical. Many far-right rabbis respect Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah, his code of Jewish laws, but not his

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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish History, Jewish Religion

Publisher’s Note: Please update your free subscription

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — To better serve you, our publication is transitioning from one e-mail service to another. One reason that we are doing this is because the previous e-mail service was unfortunately inconsistent.  Some people signed up for it, yet never received it. Some people received it one day, but not

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County