Benjamin’s Story: “When my teachers asked in Hebrew school what I planned to be when I grew up, I never imagined I’d be struggling with a heroin addiction, stealing from my parents’ peace of mind and pocketbooks, or trading a bunk bed at Camp Young Judea for a bunk bed in a jail cell. I […]
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Mental health has gone through unbelievable changes in the last 150 years. It would be beyond the scope of this article to enumerate those changes, but suffice it to say that the field has gone from being vague and mysterious to being fairly well-defined and quantitatively assessed. Where before there was no clarity on how
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As two women whose professional and spiritual lives are rooted in public health, medicine, and Torah, we are honored to introduce this powerful issue of the JOFA Journal, dedicated to the many dimensions of women’s health in Jewish life. One of us, Mindy, approaches this work as a public health researcher, committed to understanding the
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