Social workers

'Aging in Wellness and Adversity': Embracing patients coping with old age, dementia - book review

Abramowitz founded and directed the Melabev organization, initially a place where volunteers worked with dementia patients whose families wanted to keep their loved ones out of institutions.

|ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Comparison of two brain diagrams. Left, normal brain, right, brain of a person with Alzheimer's disease.
Shalva building

As Israelis deal with wounds of war, people with disabilities show the way - opinion

Israel’s current war has left deep emotional wounds still in need of healing. Yet we can take pride in knowing that Shalva fulfilled its national responsibility with devotion and dignity.

|ByKALMAN SAMUELS
Dental students Benji Bloom, left, and Bryan Dovi Teigman working in a Touro simulation lab that uses cutting-edge AI-based technology.

With students shifting their study habits, this Jewish university is embracing smart AI adoption

Touro University is embracing AI across its programs, while balancing innovation with ethical considerations rooted in Jewish values.

|ByPETER EPHROSS/JTA
Medics evacuate a wounded Israeli soldier on road 232 near the southern Israeli city of Sderot, October 7, 2023.

‘The ER looked like a world war’: Neurosurgeon and social worker recall the first hours of Oct. 7

“Dozens of bleeding casualties, radio calls, a never-ending flow of stretchers,” were some of the things neurosurgeon Dr. Lior Ungar remembers from that day.

|ByDR. ITAY GAL

Can You Imagine Being Ashamed to Host Your Family and Friends?

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020ByAVIGAIL STRENGER - SOCIAL WORKER TENUFA BAKEHILA

Social workers end strike after signing agreement with Finance Ministry

The end of the strike means that an estimated 1.5 million people will now be able to get the social services they so desperately need during the coronavirus pandemic.

JULY 22, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israeli social workers protest their working conditions and violence against them in Tel Aviv on July 19, 2020.

For social workers, striking as if there wasn’t COVID-19

“The most aggressive virus against Israel’s social services is the Budget Division," said The Union of Social Workers.

JULY 16, 2020ByLINDA GRADSTEIN
A man carries his shopping bags and wears a face mask in a street in Ashkelon while Israel tightened a national stay-at-home policy following the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Ashkelon, Israel March 20, 2020.