Shortly after her sixth birthday, Rachel Aviv stopped eating. It had been Yom Kippur the week before, and her family had observed the traditional fast. Back at school, she refused even the tiny portions her teacher put on her plate. “She looked at me carefully – I could feel her contemplating who I was, and her focus was exhilarating,” Aviv remembers.
She persisted through dizzy spells and dehydration, and in short order she was admitted to the Children’s
