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Decades ago, smart Jewish boys had to bang on closed doors — or slip through a narrow crack — to become “My Son the Doctor.”

How is that relevant to a Jewish view of medicine?

The more we know about people, the more we know about the past. The more we know about the past, the better we are able to assess the present.

He was a skilled diplomat of the highest order, but somehow Hasdai Ibn Shaprut found himself in the history books for his success as a weight loss coach

We’ve all heard miracle stories of how tzaddikim could cure the deathly ill, but did they actually have medical prowess as well?