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Michelle Elisburg

Jun 5, 2026, 8:12 PM

Antisemitism in American Health Care: Praying With Your Voice and Your Feet

The author pictured with Paula M. Stannard Director of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Photo courtesy of the author.

This is the third column in a multi-part series by the author on “Antisemitism in the Medical Field.” From biblical times when “there rose a king who knew not Joseph” (and all the good he did for Egypt) and began...

Deborah Villanueva

May 29, 2026, 7:51 PM

Sacred Ground: Reclaiming Zionism Through Memory, Healing and Hope

Marina Kahana, VP of Programming and Evolve Chair, Hadassah Long Beach / Orange County (LBOC), and Dr. Deborah Villanueva, President, Hadassah LBOC standing in front of the “Celebrate Israel” backdrop. Photo courtesy of the author.

I did not grow up thinking Zionism would one day become a word that people whispered cautiously. For much of my life, Zionism felt simple. It was connected to survival, language, prayer, peoplehood and longing. Zionism lived in stories told...

Sophie Frankenthal Gutstein

May 20, 2026, 4:41 AM

It Would Be Wise: Israel’s Prenatal Culture and the Limits of Medical Certainty

"If an ultrasound demonstrated conjoined twins," a lecturer remarked during class, "the mother would be wise to terminate the pregnancy." I don't think I fully heard anything else for the rest of the lecture. I wasn't shocked by the consideration...

Stephen Shapiro

May 15, 2026, 1:08 AM

A different look at Israel: Beyond the headlines

A Different Look at Israel: The World's Capital of Innovation Turn on the news, and Israel is often defined by war, politics, and division. But there is another Israel that rarely leads headlines: a country helping transform global healthcare, cybersecurity,...

Mihaela Toma Makenbach

May 13, 2026, 4:40 PM

How US Patient Financing Is Quietly Reshaping Israel’s Medical Tourism

A 38-year-old woman in Brooklyn opens her insurance statement and finds that her health plan covers two diagnostic cycles, not the in vitro fertilization that follows. She prices the IVF program at a Manhattan clinic at roughly $25,000. The...

May 13, 2026, 4:26 AM

Why Israel Should Fear a Hantavirus Outbreak Amid War With Iran

The watch window has just opened The outbreak of Andes hantavirus aboard the MV Hondius, the Dutch-flagged cruise ship that left Ushuaia on April 1 and docked in Tenerife on May 10, has so far produced eleven confirmed cases and...

May 10, 2026, 4:46 AM

The Hondius Hantavirus: A Chain of Errors in the Spread

The accountability question after the ship arrives The MV Hondius is expected at the Port of Granadilla in Tenerife in the early hours of Sunday, May 10. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports six confirmed cases of Andes virus and...

May 7, 2026, 9:59 AM

What is a PALMAR?

Helicopter evacuation of wounded in Gaza. Photo ©️ Amit Agronov, 2026

The concept of a PALMAR, a combat medical extraction unit which I serve in, is a far cry from the popular image of field hospitals portrayed in American TV series such as M*A*S*H (MASH is an anacronym for Mobile...

May 2, 2026, 12:29 AM

Israel’s Hybrid Health Bill: When Out-of-Pocket Looks Like Consumer Finance

Israelis pay one of the OECD's most modest mandatory health-insurance contributions. The OECD's Health at a Glance 2025 country note puts Israel's mandatory prepayment share of total health expenditure at 62 percent, against an OECD average of 75 percent....

Apr 17, 2026, 1:55 AM

Remembering My Best Friend Betty During Melanoma Awareness Month

Sharon and Betty celebrating their birthdays together in April 2000. Photo courtesy of the author.

It was August 27, 2009, my son Brady’s 17th birthday. My best friend Betty called me to wish Brady a happy birthday. Betty and I had gone through our pregnancies together. Betty’s daughter Nicole was born six weeks after my...

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