Aha! Moments // Snowed In
Rabbi Pinchas Rieber is a seventh-grade rebbi who has been teaching for 30 years. His students have many opportunities to participate in extracurricular activities, and they are sometimes rewarded by going to a Chabad...
Inventing the Vaccine to Fight COVID-19 // An exclusive interview with Dr. Drew Weissman
For months, grateful people have been sending letters to one man, thanking him for helping bring them out of the isolation and lockdown of the pandemic. He did that by working for 20 years...
Life Choices // Dr. Ben Carson shares his amazing journey from poverty to neurosurgery,...
Considered a pioneer in the field of neurosurgery and the recipient of numerous honors and national merit citations for his work, including more than 60 honorary doctoral degrees, Dr. Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr. (born...
The End of Diabetes? // How a clinical trial changed the life of a...
As told to Racheli Sofer
by Brian Shelton of Elyria, Ohio
It was 1980 and I was 21 years old. I remember sitting around with some friends one evening when suddenly I slammed face down into...
Shimi Jacobovits // Censible Marketing
I often focus on the background story of “Lunchbreak” interviewees because it gives readers chizzuk to read about people who faced significant personal challenges yet went on to build successful businesses. Shimi Jacobovits has...
Leading the Fight // Dr. Ned Sharpless, Director of the National Cancer Institute, talks...
Dr. Norman E. Sharpless was appointed as the 15th head of the NCI by former President Donald J. Trump and sworn in on October 17, 2017. After a seven-month stint as acting commissioner for...
On the Frontlines of the War // 50 Years Since the National Cancer...
It was only a week after his sheva berachos, and Leiby Feder was davening Shacharis in a local shul in Monsey when he suddenly felt faint. Hatzalah was called, and the 21-year-old was rushed...
Anybody There? // People aren’t cucumbers
“Is anyone there? Can you hear me?” You’re shouting at the rubble from a collapsed building. There’s no reply, but then… was that tapping?
You have an idea. “If you can understand me,” you yell,...
Bringing a Hospital to Your Home // Will a different model of medical care...
“Mommy’s sugar is 500!” was the alert we received on our family chat. The group had been formed by all of the siblings in our family to help keep us updated about the happenings...
Crowdsourcing A Diagnosis // Dr. Lisa Sander, a medical sleuth turns to the crowd...
The pain started when Angel was 14, unbearable pain in her legs that woke her in the middle of the night. She ended up in the emergency room, where doctors found her urine to...





















