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The Blogs: I gave birth during a ballistic missile attack
31+ min ago (518+ words) It was Monday June 23rd, the day before my due date, when I went into labor. Prior to this day were nearly two weeks of climbing up and down the stairs 4-5 times a day (often at night) with a 2-year-old in…...
The Blogs: When the world jumped the shark
2+ hour, 3+ min ago (632+ words) It feels like the world jumped the shark in 2020. Before COVID, most of us carried a quiet assumption that the world was basically stable. Not perfect, but stable. Institutions functioned. Daily life had its own "rhythm. Even crises felt contained....
The Blogs: Trauma, Identity, and Gender: A Question Worth Studying
8+ hour, 19+ min ago (749+ words) MRI studies have shown structural differences between male and female brains, including patterns in grey matter and white matter distribution. In some cases, individuals report a lifelong and deeply rooted experience of being born in the wrong body. People like…...
The Blogs: ‘Why Aren’t You Saying Amen?!’ – A life of managed crises
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (596+ words) To me, the strangest part of being in a war is not the disruption to routine, the uncertainty, the sirens and the news. It's that it feels so familiar. We got the alert about Israel's pre-emptive strike on Iran on…...
The Blogs: Women’s Health Initiative and Feminist Politicization of Women’s Health
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (849+ words) The turning point was the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study published in 2002. Media headlines around the world warned that estrogen therapy caused cancer and should be avoided. The result was immediate and dramatic. Prescriptions for HRT collapsed almost overnight. But…...
The Blogs: Tamima and the Geopolitics of Hamantaschen
1+ week, 19+ hour ago (980+ words) Yonasan Bender is a therapist and the clinical director of Jerusalem Therapy. He is a graduate of Hebrew University's Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare. He completed post graduate training in a wide array of therapeutic approaches…...
The Blogs: The Wisdom of Dreams: Jewish Prophecy and Chinese Healing
5+ mon, 4+ week ago (293+ words) When most people think about dream interpretation, Sigmund Freud comes to mind. Yet long before Freud, dreams played a central role in both Jewish and Chinese wisdom traditions. Jewish tradition offers a nuanced approach. On one hand, the Talmud asserts…...
The Blogs: Book review – Abled: Living With A Disability, A Torah View
1+ week, 4+ day ago (491+ words) In the Talmud, a person who is both deaf and mute is called a cherish. For centuries, such individuals were grouped with minors and people with limited mental capacity, based on the historical belief that they lacked the maturity for…...
The Blogs: Relational Resilience & the Soul of Post-Traumatic Growth
1+ week, 5+ day ago (901+ words) When we talk about trauma in a clinical setting, we often get stuck in the biology of it all. We talk about the amygdala, the nervous system, and cortisol levels. And while that's all true because the brain is an…...
The Blogs: From Lab to Life: One Vaccine Fits All
1+ week, 5+ day ago (365+ words) From Lab to Life: One Vaccine Fits All'The Times of Israel - Follow You will receive email alerts from this author. Manage alert preferences on your profile page You will no longer receive email alerts from this author. Manage alert preferences…...