Better Davening Through Yoga?
Ida Unger\’s Yoga Garden studio in Santa Monica seems a far cry from a synagogue.
Ida Unger\’s Yoga Garden studio in Santa Monica seems a far cry from a synagogue.
The connection between Jewish women and cancer is unsettling, even terrifying, yet undeniably real.
As if we don\’t have enough problems, it seems there\’s an unlimited supply of horrific hereditary diseases just waiting to ensnare Jews and their children. Tay-Sachs cripples infants before their first birthday and eventually kills them, Gaucher disease erodes healthy bones and organs, Niemann-Pick, cystic fibrosis, Crohn\’s, Canavan and dozens of others. And that\’s just among Eastern-European Ashkenazi Jews. A host of other hereditary diseases affect Sephardic, Iraqi and Persian Jews. Does somebody up there hate us?