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…
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…
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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…