Here's the truth: My faith remainstepid. Lukewarm as summer rain.Spew-worthy. A compass in fragments, I savedpieces: base plate, arrow, needle.Reassembly is beyond me. Millennia ago,I stood on a street corner & thumpedmy brick of scripture. Made my moutha spout. megaphone. In forest nowthere are thousand pathswith no signs. Where boat launch? islandscleaving mist? feet fallled by whim, tug....

We bless Thee for the goodly heritage From which he sprang, For youthful curiosity That fathered the genius of mature years, For his knowledge of the Latin tongue Even if neglected in the stagnant air of courts, For his hospitality to Arab learning, For all he learned from Avicenna, Lazarus Hebraeus, Rhazes, and Galen, And most of all, for what he added to their lore, For his mind's triumph ove...

Editorial Benediction In this edition, I am delighted to inform you that we are publishing articles not only from these islands but also from the United States, Austria and Germany. Two articles consider those who decide to undertake medical undergraduate training in Europe. The first, our Review Paper by Professor John Mayberry, details the data on students from Ireland and the UK who did prec...

Among the various books dealing with Salvarsan this will naturally take a prominent place as it has received the benediction of Professor Ehrlich and may thus be regarded as being almost an official document. A large part of the book is devoted to a description of individual cases showing the great value of Salvarsan, especially in refractory cases of syphilis. The occurrence of relapses in a f...

Since the patristic period, the birkat haminim has attracted Christian attention. This twelfth benediction of the central, thrice-daily Jewish weekday prayer of eighteen benedictions (actually, for most of its history, nineteen), calls for the downfall of various categories of humans who harm the Jewish community. Instituted at Yavneh in the late first century according to talmudic tradition, i...