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Jeremy M Staiman

Apr 20, 2025, 11:42 PM

A Plague on Both Your Houses! An Untasty Tradition

Photo: The Biblical Museum of Natural History, Israel.

Plagues come in different shapes, colors, and sizes. Modern medicine has all but eradicated many of history’s most notorious medical plagues, such as the Black Death and smallpox. Coronavirus, which claimed somewhere between 5 and 17 million lives, gave us...

Jan 8, 2024, 12:37 PM

“Mishenichnas Adar marbim b’simcha - when Adar enters, joy increases” Ta’anit 29a-b). Adar, the name of your month is related to the word adir, a Hebrew word that denotes strength, power, and joy that is worthy of celebration. You are aligned...

Jan 2, 2022, 1:39 PM

Israeli oxygen for good health!

Comfortable chairs with iPads, inside a hyperbaric chamber at The Sagol Center. (courtesy)

After living with fibromyalgia for nearly 25 years, on December 14, 2021, I began Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy at The Sagol Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Research at Shamir Medical Center/ Assaf HaRofeh Hospital. As of today, I have completed...

Dec 17, 2021, 4:23 PM

Parents horrified by missionaries preying on children at schools and playgrounds

Aggressive missionary campaigns targeted children

Over the past week, Beyneynu’s hotline has been flooded with shocking reports of missionaries approaching young children. These incidents occur at frequent intervals, especially in communities where there are known to be active evangelical missionary organizations close by. It is illegal...

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

Sep 25, 2020, 3:56 PM

Where the streets have no (female) names

When 'Anne Frank Street' was deemed immodest by some local ultra-Orthodox extremists, the mayor compromised, but 'Frank Street' doesn't do her memory justice

Feb 13, 2020, 6:13 PM

My grass is greener now

One of my daughters showing some Israeli pride on Yom Haazmaut. (Ruth Hametz)

As the Hebrew saying goes, 'meshane makom, meshane mazal' -- we changed our place and changed our luck. An aliyah story

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

Jul 11, 2019, 2:07 AM

Velvel Pasternak: A farewell symphony

How and why my father’s soul's graveside ascent to the heavens was accompanied by the strains of a niggun

Nancy Strichman

May 29, 2019, 9:54 PM

Championing local ‘Wonder Women’

A picture of Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, posted around Beit Shemesh to wish residents a Shabbat Shalom, Fall 2018. (Courtesy of Nili Philips)

We all root for superheroes to achieve justice and save the world. While we impatiently wait for the heavenly Gal Gadot to grace the big screen again in the Fall, we can comfort ourselves with stories of real-life wonder...

Laura Ben-David

May 10, 2019, 4:47 AM

I was attacked… by my own people

The day I learned first-hand that hooligans are hooligans, no matter what they're wearing

Dec 1, 2018, 2:56 PM

I’m a reporter; I left my synagogue because of it

If you've never set foot in a newsroom, don't tell me I don't understand the workings of journalism and the sinister extent of media bias

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