Viktor Frankl: Father of Logotherapy
What is it about Frankl’s “Healing through Meaning” that makes it so attractive to Jewish thinkers and clinicians? By Rabbi Reuven P. Bulka Say “Logotherapy,” and many people will not know what you are...
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Halachic Aspects of Vaccination
Photo: Brian Hoskins Perhaps it is because we live in twenty-first century America, a country largely immune from true epidemics, that we take vaccination for granted and some parents...
View ArticleKidney Donation in Jewish Law: A Testimony to the Progress of Science and...
The genesis of this essay began with an inquiry by the Jewish Action editors as to whether there is enough novel or substantive material about the halachic issues of living kidney donation to merit an...
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Kidney Doctor As Kidney Donor
No one looks forward to having surgery, but five and a half years ago, I actually did. I, a kidney doctor, was about to become a kidney donor. In the 1970s, shortly after I graduated medical school,...
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The Future of Reproductive Medicine: What Does Halachah Say?
By John D. Loike, Moshe Tendler, Tzvi Flaum and Ira Bedzow The year 1978 marked the beginning of the technological revolution in reproductive medicine when the world was introduced to the first test...
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Preserving Your Future: Egg Freezing Technology
The newest frontier in reproductive medicine and how it’s impacting the Orthodox world Like most young religious women, Miri Abrams (not her real name) assumed she would get married at a young age and...
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