JERUSALEM (AP) — Abraham J. Twerski, an esteemed Hassidic rabbi and acclaimed psychiatrist who championed treatment for substance abuse and authored over 80 books on subjects both spiritual and ...

(JTA) — Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski, the scion of multiple Hasidic dynasties, author of more than 60 books, and a physician who became a leading authority on drug treatment and addiction, has died.

The pandemic’s scythe keeps cutting down lives worldwide. In late January I mourned the loss of Rabbi Abraham Twerski, a revered Hasidic scholar, author and doctor. The Pittsburgh native was 90 and ...

Rabbi Twerski deserves to be remembered as a tzaddik (a righteous person), a title that he rightfully earned in his lifetime. On Sunday, the Jewish community lost one of the biggest forces fighting ...

At Amudim, we know all too well just how hard it has been to get the Jewish community to accept the realities of mental health challenges and we have been humbled to see how the tide has turned in a ...

Twerski was 90 and had been battling COVID-19 in Israel, according to Yeshiva World News. Born in Milwaukee into a family of incomparably distinguished rabbinic stock, Twerski was descended on his ...

(JTA) — Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski, the scion of multiple Hasidic dynasties, author of more than 60 books, and a physician who became a leading authority on drug treatment and addiction, has died.

Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski, the scion of multiple Hasidic dynasties, author of more than 60 books, and a physician who became a leading authority on drug treatment and addiction, has died. Twerski ...

In some corners of Ultra-Orthodox or Haredi social media, the beloved rabbi and psychiatrist Abraham Twerski died not of coronavirus, but of a man-made menace even worse than the virus itself: The ...

{Reposted from the Elder of Ziyon blog} Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski (Z”L) died on January 31st , age 90, one more in a long line of important rabbis to succumb to COVID-19. The loss of Rabbi Twerski ...

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A noted psychiatrist, he looked outside his Orthodox tradition to meld an eclectic menu of addiction treatments, including the A.A. idea of a “higher power.” By Joseph Berger Abraham J. Twerski was an ...