“Asher Yotzar”: A Lesson in Medicine
“And all I could think of was that small vein, open, and spilling out that precious red life fluid.”
“And all I could think of was that small vein, open, and spilling out that precious red life fluid.”

The US Army Engineers were ready to tackle the problem—one deluxe sukkah for the Jewish Chaplain.

This true story appeared in the August 1953 issue of Jewish Life, the precursor to Jewish Action.

Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan briefly served as editor of Jewish Life, the precursor to Jewish Action, in 1974. During his tenure, he wrote the following editor’s note, which was published amid the Watergate scandal and the Arab oil embargo.