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Cathy Lawi

May 14, 2026, 1:28 PM

In the street in Tel Aviv, from my personal camera

On Ohad Naharin's ZŌ, and what we are not yet saying I went to see Ohad Naharin's ZŌ knowing something of his work, knowing something of gaga, the movement language he has spent decades building into a philosophy of the...

Apr 21, 2026, 5:14 PM

When Grief Has Not Finished Speaking

There is something we ask of ourselves on memorial days that we rarely name: we ask ourselves to remember in a way that is already complete. To stand at the edge of grief, look into it, and return to...

Apr 13, 2026, 7:13 PM

We Choose Life

Yom HaShoah 5786 — A Reflection from Wartime Israel There is a question that keeps surfacing in me, beneath the sirens, beneath the news, beneath the fatigue of a war with no visible end. It is not a sophisticated question....

Apr 11, 2026, 10:50 PM

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The Shoah, the Farhud and October 7: One inherited wound

My Sephardi husband and I are part of the same people, but our families' traumas taught us very different lessons about Jewish survival

Mar 31, 2026, 1:16 PM

Ma Nishtana 2026: 7 ways this Passover is different from all other Passovers

Every year the youngest child at the table asks: “why is this night different from all other nights?” This year the question is clearer than ever. Here are seven ways this Passover is different. The first four name the...

Mar 13, 2026, 6:34 PM

What Hope Does to Me, and What I Do to Hope

On choosing life when the sirens sound A personal essay from Israel I do not know if I will be here next week. This is not a metaphor. And yet, I get up every morning and make choices as if my...

Mar 8, 2026, 5:40 PM

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I don’t know if I’ll be here next week

People take cover at a public shelter in Mazkeret Batya as a siren sounds warning of incoming ballistic missiles fired from Iran toward Israel, March 8, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

On living with mortal danger and the inexplicable joy of belonging to this people

Oct 13, 2025, 7:38 AM

A Time for Joy and a Time for Tears: Holding Both as a People

“To everything there is a season… a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance.” (Ecclesiastes 3:1–4) Listening to the words of Rachel Goldberg Polin this morning, I was moved to tears,...

Oct 10, 2025, 5:56 PM

Apnea of Hope

I don’t know about you… but for me, my regular, peaceful breathing hasn’t returned yet. A hostage’s mother said today that she needs to learn how to breathe again. I can identify with that. It takes time. Time to feel...

Sep 9, 2025, 6:13 PM

Moral injury, Elul, and the healing path

As we move toward the season of self-reflection in Tishri, the first month of the Jewish year, many of us are seeking ways to name and respond to the wounds carried in our bodies, hearts, and communities. The term moral injury...

About Me

Dr. Cathy Lawi is the CEO and founder of Emotionaid, an organization providing first response to emotional distress. With doctoral and post doctoral degrees in pharmaceutical and cancer research, Dr. Lawi is also a certified trauma therapist.

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