When a doctor pronounces that a case is hopeless, the Jewish family is in a quandary. Is the patient truly hopeless or is it the doctor’s mistaken values about quality…
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It was approximately six years ago when I first heard about Chayim Aruchim. My huband z’l had undergone an amputation and suffered a heart attack just a few days after…
1 “A Dignified Death? Living is Dignified, Too” Bernard Fryshman, Ph.D. November 25, 2014 If I had a twin he would be a few years away from turning eighty, and…
1 Our End of the Conversation By: Dr. Barbara A. Olevitch, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and author of Life is a Treasure: The Jewish Way of Coping with Illness. As…
1 The Myth That Feeding Tubes Don’t Help and Other Absurdities By: Dr. Barbara A. Olevitch, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and author of Life is a Treasure: The Jewish Way…
At the Hands of an Angel OOn November 23, 2013, my 91-year-old mother walked into the hospital with a dangerous blood clot in her leg. At the time, she was…
PHOTOS Daniel Binyamin fighting for Lıfe 72 MISHPACHA 27 Adar II 5776 | April 6, 2016 MISHPACHA 73 Fighting for Life HEADER HERE The main entrance to the hospital —…
By: Mordechai Avigdor, Esq. For me, it always seems to happen not just on Erev Shabbos, but on an Erev Shabbos when I need to get from Brooklyn to Lakewood…
With the murder of Alta Fixsler etched irrevocably in our collective memories, Chayim Aruchim’s Thursday night session at the 99th convention of Agudath Israel of America took on a palpable sense of…