CAR-T

The reality slap

February 7, 2026

Dr. Russ Harris was looking forward to welcoming his first child. But it wasn’t long after his son was born that he realized something wasn’t right

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Year-end lists: Gratitude

December 27, 2025

As 2025 draws to a close, it’s traditional to make lists. I’d like to draw from a custom our family has adopted for Shabbat: a gratitude list!

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Explainer: How does CAR-T cancer treatment work?

December 13, 2025

Here’s news I know many readers have been anxiously awaiting: The CAR-T was a success! It’s time for a CAR-T “explainer.”

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The patient hiker

November 30, 2025

What do the Trump plan for Gaza, hiking Nahal Katlav in the Jerusalem Hills and getting CAR-T treatment for cancer have in common?

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Miracle in the medicine cabinet

November 9, 2025

People relate in very different ways to their medicine cabinets. Some folks will toss out anything they’re no longer using. Others hold onto every med indefinitely, even when the expiration dates have passed. I fall into the second category. And on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah a few weeks ago, that tendency may have […]

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It takes a village

August 10, 2025

When I contracted my second urinary tract infection in a month (infections are probably the most common side effect of the CAR-T treatment for blood cancers that I received and have been writing about over the past several months), I needed some antibiotics in a hurry. The simple act of peeing had become torturously painful […]

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Flying through hospitalization

April 6, 2025

Throughout my cancer journey, one of my biggest fears has been needing to be hospitalized. That day finally arrived recently.

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“I’ve never been with a bald man before”

December 13, 2024

As I started chemotherapy, I was prepared for my hair to fall out. Just not the way it began. My hair loss started more with a whisper than a bang. 

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How to preserve a legacy after death

December 2, 2024

A trifecta of physical and emotional stress washed over me, leaving me despondent over politics, war and a sudden change in my health. My cancer had come back.

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Twenty-five reasons to live in Israel

October 13, 2019

Last week marked our “aliyah-versary.” Twenty-five years ago, on October 10, 1994, my wife, Jody, and our two young children immigrated to Jerusalem from Berkeley, Calif. A third child – our only Sabra – was born a few years later. The Blum family in the sukka, 2019 So, on this, the silver anniversary of our […]

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