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Trauma therapists Jaclyn Wolfman (left) and Miri Bar-Halpern are co-authors of a paper about the ways Jewish fears of antisemitism or distress over the Oct. 7 attacks have been dismissed or downplayed. (Courtesy)
Posted inIdeas

‘Traumatic invalidation’: Therapists name the way Jewish fear has been ignored since Oct. 7

by Andrew Silow-Carroll June 11, 2025June 11, 2025

(JTA) — Miri Bar-Halpern and Jaclyn Wolfman don’t use the term “gaslighting” in their paper on Jewish trauma after Oct. 7, but they might as well have. The Boston-area trauma […]

Students say the Shabbat blessings at SF Hillel's "Shabbat Sha-Blessings" pop-up event at USF in fall of 2022. (Photo/Courtesy S.F. Hillel)
Posted inLocal Voice

Some Jewish college students face a more basic problem than antisemitism: hunger

Roger Feigelson by Roger Feigelson August 2, 2023August 2, 2023
Jonah Hill in "You People"
Posted inCulture

Jonah Hill’s therapy-speak exposes the dark side of the Nice Jewish Boy

Mira Fox by Mira Fox July 11, 2023July 11, 2023
Activists with the Jewish climate change group Dayenu at a New York City event in April 2021. (Photo/JTA-Gili Getz)
Posted inHolidays

Eco-anxious? Here’s how Judaism can help us face the climate crisis

Rabbi Laura Bellows by Rabbi Laura Bellows January 27, 2023January 27, 2023
The Reuven family, seen here in New York, decided to spend a year traveling after Stav's death.
Posted inBay Area

Suicide prevention a priority for grieving South Bay family, where youth depression is common

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller May 11, 2022May 11, 2022
(Photo-Justin Elson-Flickr Commons)
Posted inLocal Voice

Jewish approach to mental health crises is ‘Care First, Jail Last’

Jonathan SimonRahel Smith by Jonathan Simon and Rahel Smith January 19, 2022
Stanford University (Photo/File)
Posted inNews

Stanford therapists allege ‘hostile climate’ for Jews in the workplace

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman June 15, 2021June 23, 2021
Posted inNews

Requests for ‘psychological first aid’ spiked in Israel during the recent conflict

by Zeela Kotler Hadari and JTA May 27, 2021
(Photo/Pxhere)
Posted inLocal Voice

Mental health during Covid: Be of service and get a ‘helper’s high’

Zoe Stricker by Zoe Stricker May 21, 2021
The new Nancy Friend Pritzker Psychiatry Building at UCSF is named in honor of John Pritzker's sister, who died by suicide at the age of 24 in 1972. (Photo/Courtesy Pritzker family)
Posted inPhilanthropy

$60 million gift from Pritzkers builds UCSF family psychiatry center

by Liz Harris May 20, 2021

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