{"id":31750,"date":"2011-04-11T19:43:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T03:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=31750"},"modified":"2011-04-11T19:43:40","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T03:43:40","slug":"eating-disorders-among-orthodox-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=31750","title":{"rendered":"Eating Disorders Among Orthodox Jews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/04\/12\/health\/12orthodox.html?_r=1&#038;hp\">The New York Times reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>In the large and growing Orthodox Jewish communities around New York and elsewhere, rabbinic leaders are sounding an alarm about an unexpected problem: a wave of anorexia and other eating disorders among teenage girls. <\/p>\n<p>While no one knows whether such disorders are more prevalent among Orthodox Jews than in society at large, they may be more baffling to outsiders. Orthodox women are famously expected to dress modestly, yet matchmakers feel no qualms in asking about a prospective bride\u2019s dress size \u2014 and her mother\u2019s \u2014 and the preferred answer is 0 to 4, extra small.<\/p>\n<p>Rabbis say the problem is especially hard to treat because of the shame that has long surrounded mental illness among Orthodox Jews.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is an amazing stigma attached to eating disorders \u2014 this is the real problem,\u201d said Rabbi Saul Zucker, educational director for the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, or O.U., the organization that issues the all-important kashrut stamp for food. \u201cBut hiding it is not going to make it go away. If we don\u2019t confront it, it\u2019s going to get worse.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times reports: In the large and growing Orthodox Jewish communities around New York and elsewhere, rabbinic leaders are sounding an alarm about an unexpected problem: a wave of anorexia and other eating disorders among teenage girls. While &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=31750\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,18],"tags":[13344,1085,26060,19488,13343,3135],"class_list":["post-31750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-orthodoxy","tag-orthodox-jewish-congregations","tag-orthodox-jews","tag-preferred-answer","tag-rabbinic-leaders","tag-union-of-orthodox-jewish-congregations","tag-york-times-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}