The Longest Pause: My Cardiac Arrest and Me (Judean Rose, Part III)

I slid off the chair to the floor, but I know nothing of this. I am gone. Only later do I ask Dov, my husband, how it happened. “Slid” was his word. “You slid off the chair onto the floor,” said Dov. “Did I hit my head?” “No, the medics kind of caught you and eased you down to the floor.” “Then what happened?” “The MDA guy immediately started compressions,” says Dov, with...

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The Longest Pause: My Cardiac Arrest and Me (Judean Rose, Part II)

I am on the phone with Hatzalah, faint, one hand on the tile floor to steady me. I just want to lie down and feel the cool tile on my face. But the Hatzalah guy on the phone won’t stop asking questions. He wants me to describe what I’m feeling. I don’t know how to explain that weird feeling in my face and hands in ENGLISH, let alone in Hebrew. Yet somehow, my blurred mind...

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Teaneck protest against MDA, like all such protests, are not "pro-Palestinian" but anti-Israel

On Sunday, there was a fundraising event in Teaneck, NJ, to raise money for an ambulance for Israel's Magen David Adom service. A dozen people counter-protested, because, apparently, God forbid that Israelis have the ability to save people's lives. Here is how the counterprotest was reported in the North Jersey Record: Across the street from Congregation Beth Sholom, where...

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