One Sunday morning in March, Henry Oster was watching the news in bed when a video came on of then-candidate Donald Trump asking a crowd in Florida to raise their right hands and pledge to vote for him.
The Bible instructs every Jewish king that he must have one book with him all the time: the Torah.
To walk through the great cities of Europe is to consort with ghosts.
To warm ourselves before a stove
in a foreign province,
Dennis Prager declares Good triumphed over Evil by stating: “Turns out the whole Democratic Party lost hugely on Election Day” (“Please Keep Calling Us Racists and Misogynists,” Nov. 18).
The Consulate General of Israel in Los Angeles is famously well connected in the political circles of Southern California, but even by its standards, the Nov. 20 annual Fiesta Shalom event in East L.A. featured a notable cast of congressmen, state legislators and other officials.
Doctors diagnose as many as 60,000 new cases of Parkinson’s disease (PD) in the United States every year.
A combination of virtual reality and treadmill training may prove effective in preventing dangerous falls associated with aging, Parkinson’s disease, mild cognitive impairment or dementia, according to an Israeli study published in the medical journal The Lancet.
Having buried Abraham and Sarah, the biblical narrative moves to the next generation: Isaac and his family. This week’s parsha is Toldot, which can mean “generations,” “begettings” or “consequences.”
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