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trauma

Rabbi Zac Kamenetz, founder of the Jewish psychedelic organization Shefa, prays in the Giant Sequoia Grove in Berkeley, Aug. 6, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inLocal Voice

Psychedelics: A new approach to healing Jewish trauma is on the horizon

Rabbi Zac Kamenetz by Rabbi Zac Kamenetz April 27, 2026April 27, 2026

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that has settled into Jewish life in America. It did not begin on Oct. 7, 2023, though that day cracked open something that […]

Susan Hirshfield
Posted inThe J. Interview

PTSD expert helps people create meaning after painful experiences

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi March 24, 2026March 24, 2026
It may look like a typical photo from a group trip, but the circumstances were anything but. Members of the 2025 Ilene Serlin Trauma Mission to Israel included Bay Area participants Deborah Boyar (back, fourth from left), Jeff Saperstein (back, third from right) and BatSheva Feld (back, second from right). AJMA CEO Michelle Stravitz is seated at the right.
(Courtesy Deborah Boyar)
Posted inIsrael

Local man helped lead ‘trauma mission’ to Israel in wife’s memory — amid Iran war

by Dan Pine July 8, 2025July 10, 2025
Man cleans up broken glass
Posted inIsrael

How much can Israelis take? A trauma expert finds out

by Andrew Silow-Carroll June 30, 2025June 30, 2025
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
Angelique Cabral as Becca Winograd-Diaz (left) and Rosa Salazar as Alma Winograd-Diaz in 'Undone.' (Photo/Courtesy Prime Video)
Posted inTV & Film

‘Undone’ imagines reversing intergenerational trauma in a Mexican-Jewish-American family

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz October 24, 2022October 25, 2022
(From left) Beth Kissileff, writer of this piece; her husband, Rabbi Jonathan Perlman, a survivor of the Oct. 31, 2018 shooting at Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh; and Pitssburgh Mayor Bill Peduto at Rodman Street Missionary Baptist Church during a service for victims of the mass shooting. (Photo/JTA-Salwan Georges-The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Posted inRosh Hashanah

My congregation prayed at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue. Here’s how we are coping this Rosh Hashanah.

Beth Kissileff by Beth Kissileff and JTA September 24, 2019September 26, 2019

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