Category: Science and Health

Passengers on flights from China to Israel will only be allowed to board after getting a negative coronavirus test due to the rising infection rates in China, Health Minister Arye Deri decided on Friday. Deri also ordered the establishment of a voluntary testing site for passengers arriving from China to Israel at Ben-Gurion Airport. The […]

Today we begin chapter ten of Tractate Nedarim. Chapters ten and eleven will cover the subject of vows made by women and in what circumstances those vows can be canceled by male relatives.  The Torah addresses this topic in Numbers chapter 30, where we learn that if a young woman makes a vow while living in her father’s house, […]

Narrative passages in the Talmud often leave much to the imagination of the reader. The following anecdote from today’s daf is no exception: Once there was a person who said to his wife, “You are forbidden to benefit from me until you have given Rabbi Yehuda and Rabbi Shimon your cooked food to taste.” What […]

The Health Ministry’s long-awaited Food Reform program – designed to reduce regulation and facilitate imports while protecting public health – will go into effect on Sunday Dr. Sharon Elroy- Preis, head of the ministry’s Public Health Division, and Pnina Oren, head of the National Food Service, maintained that implementation of the program was a “revolutionary […]

On yesterday’s daf, we learned that one can only dissolve a vow about a particular person in their presence. Today we get a fascinating story that highlights the importance of this teaching.  The story is set in the years just before the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the First Temple in Jerusalem. The Kingdom of Judah […]

“Seeing eye to eye” is an expression of harmony, but do different people literally see the same thing when they view the same external world? “The short answer is no,” according to Dr. Liron Gruber and Prof. Ehud Ahissar of the brain sciences department of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot.  “Even the same […]

Despite reports that the number of COVID-19 cases has grown substantially in China, the Health Ministry in Jerusalem has not yet announced what, if any, measures it will take to prevent an influx of infected people from coming to Israel from that country.  But Prof. Hagai Levine, a leading epidemiologist, public health physician, faculty member […]

2022 brought so many delicious, comforting recipes to The Nosher, from Bukharian plov to Sephardic spinach-and-cheese matzah pie to the perfect tuna salad. These dishes represent multiple Jewish traditions, but they share a common thread: They are simple, satisfying recipes that feed the soul and tell stories of the Jewish people. Here are the top […]

Whenever I had the slightest hint of a sore throat, the remedy in our Ashkenazi Jewish home was gogol mogol (kogel mogel in Polish). Gogol mogol is a Yiddish word for a shtetl recipe that dates back to 17th-century Central Europe. It’s a simple, sweet treat made with egg yolks and sugar that’s similar to […]

When the pediatric optometry specialist and senior doctor at Ziv Medical Center in Safed, Dr. Yuval Cohen, first sent his son to kindergarten, he was troubled by how darkly lit it was. After deciding to research this issue, he found that there is a connection between the intensity of the lighting in kindergartens and the […]