eyes Archives – Jewish Journal

Rosner’s Torah Talk: Parshat Selach with Rabbis Pavolotzky and Szuster

Shmuel Rosner June 18, 2020

The Mensch List: Sarah Loew’s optimistic vision

Ryan Torok January 3, 2013

Sarah Loew didn’t just create the Loew Vision Rehabilitation Institute, which improves the lives of people with permanent vision loss — she is also a patient of the facility.

Keep Your Eyes Open

Shoshana Lewin-Fischer August 24, 2006

Kein v\’ Lo: Snack Attack.

What You See Isn’t Quite What You Get

Beth Levine February 2, 2006

I am at my desk, trying to read papers and look at my computer screen. Sounds simple, right? Ha. This entails putting on my reading glasses when I want to look at the papers. But then to see the computer screen I need to flip the glasses up and use only my contact lenses (contacts so strong, I might add, that I should have X-ray vision).

Laser Heart Surgery

Orit Arfa May 26, 2005

My only decent pair of glasses broke en route from Los Angeles to Israel, and I took it as a sign — it was time to for corrective laser surgery, a.k.a. LASIK.

\”Make sure on the day of surgery someone comes with you,\” the Israeli receptionist said to me after I set my appointment.

Great. Who would I call on to come with me? If I lived in Los Angeles, someone in my family would have shepherded me. But I wasn\’t comfortable asking my family in Israel to escort me.