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Issue 5 - Summer 2007 - The Healthy Issue
Articles
TIPS
DON'T PUT SALIVA IN YOUR EYES
Health tips from the Shulchan Arukh
BY EDDY PORTNOY
COOKING
BIOGRAPHY
I AM IRON MAN
Heavy boots of lead, fills his victims full of dread, running as fast as they can, Iron Man lives again
BY EDDY PORTNOY
MEDITATION
MEMOIR
THE JEW, THE PELICAN, AND THE NAZI
How one man's aching back uncovered both friend and foe thousands of miles from home
BY HOWARD JACOBSON
FICTION
REFLECTION
HOW I SEE
In which the author learns to love his vision
JOSHUA WOLF SHENK
FICTION
BUBBLES
BY ETGAR KERET
Translated by Miriam Shlesinger and Sondra Silverston
REFLECTION
OH, THE TROUBLE I'VE HEARD
The man people spill their secrets to tries to work out why
BY DAVID RAKOFF
ESSAY
HELLO, CLEVELAND! HELLO? ARE YOU THERE? I CAN'T HEAR YOU ...
A rock star rocks too hard and loses his hearing
BY DAN CRANE
ESSAY
OH, MY HEAD
A writer's one-way trip to the land of migraines and how she's learned to live there
BY LISA LEVY
STORY
TO LIFE
A short and completely true story
BY GREGOR EHRLICH
Illustration by Ben Bohly and Julie Storper
PROFILE
HANG TEN FOR HA-SHEM
A Hasidic rabbi who surfs isn't just eccentric; he's verging on heretical. But Rabbi Nachum Shifren sees a deep connection between halachic law and the call of the Big Kahuna, and he wants to take his message to a beach near you
BY STACY PERMAN
REPORT
ESSAY
WORRY LESS, EAT MORE
Why has the Ashkenazi diet abandoned pastrami? The case for a schmaltzy revival from the deli trail in America
DAVID SAX
PROFILE
CHAI OF THE TIGER
After inheriting the secrets of a biblical martial art, the Abir Aluf unveils his Fists of Fury
BY MARK SCHWARTZ
ARCHIVE
BLOOD, FROGS, LICE ... THE THIRD PLAGUE IS THE WORST!
In the days before everyone�s son was a doctor, a single organization was the difference between sickness and health
REFLECTION
DECONSTRUCTING DEBORAH
Just finding your guru is hard enough without actually having to get to know her
BY EMILY GOULD
ESSAY
ASSORTED NUTS
If insanity runs in your family but you don't know it, are you still insane?
BY DAVID MATTHEWS
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ATTIC
BETTER LIVING THROUGH CHEMISTRY
Scientific leaps and bounds from the Hadassah archives
Q&A
FUNNY, YOU DON'T LOOK HEALTHY
Todd Hasak-Lowy and Mitchell B. Hart discuss a little-known phenomenon: the healthy Jew
BY TODD HASAK-LOWY
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