Pharmacist knows best: How to avoid medicine misuse By Dr. Linda Bernstein Oct 5, 2021 Preservation of life, or pikuach nefesh, is a central Jewish principle. I am excited to bring you this column to fulfill this mitzvah of life preservation. October is Talk About Your Medicines Month as well as American Pharmacists Month, so now is a good time to learn about how to avoid medication misuse. The “other drug… Read More
Bay Area Up all night: Palo Alto volunteers lend ear to Israelis in crisis It’s the middle of the night in Israel, and Yael Landan is in Palo Alto. But emotionally, she’s back in her home country, connected by telephone to… By Maya Mirsky Sep 23, 2021
Profile This East Bay cannabis guru wants you to grow your own “Everybody loves pot.” So says Ed Rosenthal, legalization activist and longtime elder statesman of California’s cannabis scene. He sees federal… By Maya Mirsky Jul 29, 2021
Health Q&A: How a retired stockbroker became the ‘Spinning Rabbi’ Fred Fox thought he wanted to grow up to be a rabbi, comedian, therapist or entertainer. Instead, he became a stockbroker in his native New York City. Now… By Liz Harris Jul 28, 2021
Act Two California’s broken nursing home system broke my heart Prayers and thoughts, prayers and thoughts. I could paper the walls with them. But while enduring an eight-week, full-frontal immersion course in… By Janet Silver Ghent Jul 6, 2021
Health This rabbi uses his history of opioid addiction to help congregants For Rabbi Michael Perice, the hardest thing about counseling congregants who have family members dealing with addiction had been holding back his own… By Shira Hanau, JTA Jul 1, 2021
Parenting As if Covid wasn’t enough, my new nightmare is ticks The microscopic Covid-19 pathogen is often anthropomorphically illustrated as a fiendish ball with a destructive look on its face, studded all over with… By Drew Himmelstein Jun 28, 2021
Health I just found out I have cataracts. Here’s what I’ve learned. At my recent optometry appointment, I was told I have early cataracts and that cataract surgery could be indicated in 10 years. Many of my patients have… By Dr. Jerry Saliman Jun 15, 2021
Israel Requests for ‘psychological first aid’ spiked in Israel during the recent conflict The calls came at an unprecedented pace: from a woman afraid for her mother’s safety, from a parent anxious about what to tell her children, from a man… By Zeela Kotler Hadari, JTA May 27, 2021