1+ hour, 39+ min ago  (278+ words) By Jacob Kornbluh and Hannah FeuerMarch 23, 2026 A proposed takeover of Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn by New York City's public hospital system has hit a new obstacle, after the state Attorney General's office rejected a request to fast-track the merger…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago  (1101+ words) By Hannah Feuer March 17, 2026 As New York City moves to assume control of a financially distressed hospital that serves Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish community, some local players are pushing back, filing lawsuits in hopes of stopping the imminent merger with the…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (623+ words) By Lauren Hakimi October 11, 2025 One day, when Sabrina Hakim was out for a walk with her father, he started speaking a language she could not understand. Sabrina figured he must be speaking Judeo-Kashi, a variety of Judeo-Iranian. Her father spoke…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (421+ words) By Hannah Feuer August 28, 2025 Local health departments often handle community outreach, but they rely on guidance from the CDC, Kasstan-Dabush said. Conflicting guidance can create an information vacuum where misinformation flourishes, he said. Rabbi Dr. Aaron Glatt, chief of infectious…...

7+ mon, 1+ day ago  (353+ words) By Philissa Cramer August 22, 2025 (JTA) " An international hunger monitoring group says portions of Gaza now meet its standards for declaring a famine, crossing a threshold that it said had not previously been reached. The IPC report says a recent increase…...

7+ mon, 4+ week ago  (747+ words) From Left: Misha, Clarence and Ken Weinberg. Courtesy of Ken Weinberg By Jon Kalish July 25, 2025 Fran Heller, a retired Columbia Presbyterian Hospital palliative care social worker, told me that the narrative medicine approach helped Weinberg become an especially good diagnostician,…...

8+ mon, 2+ day ago  (316+ words) By Mira Fox July 21, 2025 In a video making the rounds on social media, a doctor, wearing navy scrubs, is standing in a neonatal intensive care unit. Behind him, alarms from the monitors attached to each infant are going off constantly....

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8+ mon, 2+ week ago  (586+ words) By Hannah Feuer July 3, 2025 At Jewish Home Family in northern New Jersey, seniors spend their golden years with access to kosher meals, weekly Shabbat services, and the spiritual support of on-site rabbis. Among the residents are Holocaust survivors receiving specialized…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago  (81+ words) " " July 2, 2025 Tidbits is a Forverts feature of easy news briefs in Yiddish that you can listen to or read, or both! If you read the article and don't know a word, just click on it and the translation appears. You'll…...