Category: Healing from Trauma & Abuse

Birkat HaGomel for Survivors of Assault and Abuse

By Anonymous

November 18, 2018

What drew me to Birkat HaGomel was the core concept of return to a community

By Maria Pulzetti

September 26, 2018

The sukkah protects the vulnerable … and it exposes the violators

By Sheridan Gayer

August 28, 2018

It is revealing that quite regularly women tell me they prefer not to feel like a side of beef being kashered in her immersion process.

By David Ebenbach

August 2, 2018

“We are not merely connected like two ends of a thread,” the speaker says. “We are the thread./ One and whole.”

By Efrem Epstein

May 12, 2016

How can the Jewish community be more accessible to those affected by mental health issues?

By Rabbi Seth Wax

November 30, 2015

But we must recall the innate human dignity of every person, every prisoner, and recognize their need for healing, too.

By Ariana Katz

September 21, 2015

Our most holy texts make it clear that we may not stand idly by while violence is perpetrated in our midst.