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By Emily Stern
Published on March 7, 2013

The Dance of Love

By Ilana Angel
Published on July 18, 2012

An Englishman and a Canadian Walk Into a Bar

By Ilana Angel
Published on May 1, 2012

Permanent artificial heart implanted in Israel for first time

Published on April 30, 2012

An artificial heart has been permanently implanted in a patient in Israel for the first time.

Even a Good Girl Looks Like a Hooker When Her Date is 36 Minutes Late

By Ilana Angel
Published on October 23, 2011

Following her heart: A Yom Kippur story

By Julie Gruenbaum Fax
Published on October 5, 2011

This is what Ava Kaufman was wearing when she negotiated with God while in a seven-week coma following a heart transplant: a white turtleneck leotard with a white leather miniskirt, and white thigh-high boots.

Fixing broken hearts in Israel

Published on June 15, 2011

Just two days earlier but a world away, 8-year-old Salha Farjalla Khamis said goodbye to her parents and four siblings in her village on the African island of Zanzibar. Later, in a hospital in the Tel Aviv suburb of Holon, tears roll silently down her cheeks as she watches an Israeli nurse attach the wires of an EKG monitor to her small body. “Mama!” she cries out as the Israeli nurse, an immigrant from the former Soviet Union, tries to soothe her in a language the little girl does not understand.

New Holocaust restitution project launched

Published on February 24, 2011

A new Holocaust-era restitution project will work to identify individuals whose property and assets were confiscated by the Nazis. Project HEART -- Holocaust Era Asset Restitution Taskforce, a new initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel with support from the government of Israel, was announced Wednesday.

It’s Been a While…

By Misha Henckel
Published on September 1, 2009

CAT scan of Jimmy Carter’s heart

By David Mamet
Published on February 15, 2007

Smith Barney doesn’t manage this portfolio. My heart does.

By Dara Lehon
Published on September 14, 2006

Affairs of the heart are a big investment for this conservative, long-term investor.

Taking Women’s Health to Heart

By Nancy Sokoler Steiner
Published on February 24, 2005

Nancy Kearson knew she had high blood pressure, but she wasn't aware of any other health problems until a friend urged her to see a physician four years ago. That exam may have saved her life.

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By Mark Miller
Published on December 2, 2004

OK, so if you're rejected, perhaps your self-esteem takes a little hit. If you're rejected a lot, perhaps it gets bruised. And if you experience nothing but rejection, maybe your self-esteem ends up in the trauma ward of Love General Hospital. But enough about my pain.

Silence Is Golden

By Rabbi Elazar Muskin
Published on October 28, 2004

A saleswoman, driving home in northern Arizona, sees a Navajo woman hitchhiking, stops the car and invites the Navajo woman to join her.

The Forbidden Food

By Dan Jacobs
Published on August 26, 2004

A New Relationship

By Teresa Strasser
Published on July 1, 2004

It's been six months since I relocated for work, "taking a break" from the love of my life, Los Angeles.

The Festival of Lite

By Mike Levy
Published on November 21, 2002

Even "heart healthy" or "light" menu options can be filled with hidden fat, sodium or other dangers for those on special diets or trying to eat healthy.

One Day More

By Rabbi Rami Shapiro
Published on September 26, 2002

This week, we break the linear reading of Torah to honor the holy day of Shemini Atzeret, the eighth day of assembly, a day added to the seven days of Sukkot.

Eulogies:Saul Pick

By Michael Aushenker
Published on May 30, 2002

Saul Pick, a Holocaust survivor who developed the Cinerama Dome and built the first high-rise hotel on Sunset Boulevard, died of pneumonia on May 8. He was 85.

Son Mark Pick, a managing partner of Sunset-Gower Studios, remembers a man of conviction with a generous and passionate heart.

"What was most remarkable about my dad," he told The Journal, "is that, despite the unspeakable evil that he witnessed in the Holocaust and the suffering he endured, he had a true capacity not only to love, but to express that love openly. He valued life and his family, his friends and his community.

Kids Page

By Abby Gilad
Published on January 10, 2002

A Portion of Parshat Va'yera

The Circuit

By Michael Aushenker
Published on November 1, 2001

Circuit news.

The Lessons of Yom Kippur

By Rabbi David Wolpe
Published on October 5, 2000

Today you die. No one pronounces that horrible sentence on Yom Kippur, but it is true. Yom Kippur reenacts death. We wear white, like the shrouds we will one day be buried in. We do not eat, wash, procreate; we are as corpses. We recite the "Unetaneh Tokef," filled with graphic, even gruesome images about our death.

First Impressions

By Teresa Strasser
Published on August 21, 1997

I was smitten the first second I saw him -- the astro physicist who broke my heart.