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Jul 22, 2026, 10:38 PM

How can you have a strong body, full of muscles, yet still be a nervous wreck?

If you are an ish gibbor (strong person), you do not let worries dominate your heart. You accept everything HaShem does with joy and love. Your positive and joyous attitude allows you to rise above your illness and helps your body heal. Should...

Jul 21, 2026, 6:27 PM

How does a Rabbi overcome Cancer using Emunah?

How does your Spirit (Ruach) affect your health? The spirit of man is enlivened from the Heart (Ruach Ish Mechalkal Mahalev). Proverbs 18: 14 This means your spirit supports your health. But when your spirit is depressed it will reinforce your illness. We all encounter reasons...

Carol Silver Elliott

Jul 20, 2026, 7:03 PM

Use It or Lose It

When we talk about skills we’ve built, or knowledge we’ve gained, we know that we have to use it, or we won’t maintain the ability. Learning a language is a perfect example of this, as we study and practice...

Jul 19, 2026, 5:45 PM

Help Us Hear, O Israel

HEARING

By Marvin Packer, MD—Addressing the high prevalence of age-related hearing loss, the communal and personal failure to remedy it, and the critical consequences for brain health. The Glass Wall Imagine you are sitting in a lecture: The speaker’s voice is clear at...

Jul 13, 2026, 6:41 PM

Wearables: The End of Humanity

How We Lose Our Humanity to Technology Wearables

"How am I feeling?" I asked my watch. This morning I was in the middle of a CrossFit class, sweating, heart pounding, and I glanced at my smartwatch to check my heart rate. A heart rate I could already feel,...

Jul 13, 2026, 6:33 PM

From Lab to Life Progress Toward a Cancer Vaccine

depositphotos.com Yesterday, Science Daily reported on a breakthrough in research to create an mRNA cancer vaccine: “Researchers found that mRNA cancer vaccines can recruit an unexpected immune cell to launch powerful tumor-fighting responses, overturning a long-held assumption about how the...

Andy Blumenthal

Jul 12, 2026, 5:25 AM

There Is Still Time Today to Make Yesterday Jealous

It was an ordinary ride that delivered an extraordinary idea. Earlier this week, in Washington, D.C., I stepped into an Uber driven by a retired gentleman with a calm demeanor. Soft religious music played in the background. He greeted me...

Amanda Goldstein

Jul 10, 2026, 2:55 PM

What cancer taught me about the desert

Illustrative. From 'Victory O Lord!' by John Everett Millais, 1871, depicts Moses holding up his arms during the Battle of Rephidim, assisted by Hur (left) and Aaron. (Wikipedia)

When God mapped out a hard route, did Moses ever stop to ask, 'Are You sure they need to hear all of this?' Does advance notice hurt or help? (Matos/Masai)

Silas Anastacio

Jul 10, 2026, 12:17 AM

Ida Sztamfater: The Power of Family Memory, Overcoming Adversity

The story of Ida Sztamfater is a living testimony to how Holocaust memory and the resilience inherited from her mother shaped a life dedicated to care and solidarity. Her mother, born in Poland, survived by hiding in a barn...

Hadassah Chavivah Zeltzer

Jul 9, 2026, 10:09 AM

Thank you to the Times of Israel Blog Posts! For giving me a voice! Tzedeck Z.

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B"H July 8th 2026 23rd of Tamuz, 5786 To the Times of Israel! Todah Rabah! Thank you so much for giving me a voice and platform this past year to be able to share my feelings, thoughts, essays and ideas. And my art with the...

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