Health

Communist Jew + Muslim Indian = Affordable Health Care

Q: What do you get when a Muslim Indian and a Communist Jew walk into a bar? A: An extraordinary leader named Dr. Yusuf K Hamied. As Drs. Kenneth X Robbins and John Mcleod explain in a fascinating recent article, Hamied is the visionary behind India’s pharmaceutical giant CIPLA – Chemical, Industrial and Pharmaceutical […]

The Small Town Jew Who Pioneered Sex-Change Surgery

Stanley Biber’s dream was to become a rabbi, so he moved from his birthplace of Des Moines to Chicago, and enrolled in a yeshiva. But then World War II began, derailing his plans. Following the war, Biber lost the clerical urge, went to medical school, became a surgeon, and, before long, turned into a […]

The Strange, Heroic Life of Jewish Meatpacking Heiress Muriel Gardiner

In the 1920s, if you had lots of money and time, you might have done what Chicago meatpacking heiress Muriel Gardiner did and become a professional rescuer: first run off to Vienna to be analyzed by Freud (Gardiner was an analyst and psychiatrist herself), join the Austrian underground, smuggle some Jews out of the country, […]