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…
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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…