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By Sivan Rahav-Meir Have you heard about PTG (post-traumatic growth)? We hear a lot about PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) but not much about post-traumatic growth—that is, a positive response to traumatic events. At a recent Women’s Renewal workshop, Rabbi Aaron Darmon spoke about this lesser-known phenomenon. This is not only about resiliency or a return […]
By Sivan Rahav-Meir Translated by Yehoshua Siskin You all saw the fight in Tel Aviv on Yom Kippur. But here are three other Yom Kippur experiences, that speak for themselves “Shalom Sivan, Kibbutz Givat Haim hosted students from the Ramat Gan Yeshiva for Yom Kippur. The kindergarten there served as the synagogue and it was […]
By Sivan Rahav-Meir Why do we chant Selichot (penitential prayers) late at night or early in the morning? In order to change not only our daily routine, but also ourselves. Just as we change the time that we pray, we hope to change our character. At the Amit Eitan High School in Ma’ale Adumim, the […]
By Sivan Rahav-Meir Translated by Yehoshua Siskin In the course of a lecture tour in the United States, we were once guests in the home of Stephanie and David Sokol. We thought they were a typical American couple, except that I noticed how Stephanie conducted Zoom conversations with Israel day and night. “Should the women […]
By Sivan Rahav-Meir Translated by Yehoshua Siskin The picture you see here was taken this week in the Woodmere neighborhood of Long Island, New York, where Yael Hazan graduated from a very large public high school. After enduring many anti-Israel and anti-Jewish taunts and barbs during her years at the school, she decided that when […]