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Sep 24, 2024, 6:27 PM

Déjà vu all over again

In a world that seems to have gone crazy, where rules of social discourse are distorted, it is important to see what is actually going on. As any good lawyer will tell you, look for a pattern of past...

Aug 12, 2024, 3:35 PM

The great unmasking

Shabbat, Simchat Torah October 7, 2023. At first, I thought it was a major exaggeration. That gave way to shock. Then anger, frustration and finally, a deep clawing sadness permeated my core. A kind of alternate (of Kubler-Ross’s) five...

Nov 2, 2023, 12:36 AM

A Different Battle Cry

The past few weeks have flipped everyone’s life around. For those of us living in Israel, this is true many fold. Few of us expected Hamas and its various clones to leave us and our country alone, let alone...

Jan 16, 2022, 2:28 PM

The Most Insidious Plague of All

The discussion is getting hotter as Omicron, the newest strain of the Covid virus, invades our space. We are all getting tired of the news and the shouting and the insecurity of what and who we can and cannot...

Feb 25, 2021, 12:41 AM

A realistic look at the historical Purim story and it’s moral

Needless to say, like all religious Jewish children, I learned the Purim story every year in school. Every few years, as we matured, we learned new interpretations of events that led up to the climax of Mordechai and Esther...

Jul 9, 2020, 9:30 PM

Mourning the Mikdash: We’re Getting it Wrong

For over 2,000 years now Jews the world over have been mourning the loss of the Beit Hamikdash (Holy Temple in Jerusalem). On a daily basis and especially on holidays, we have parts of our prayers that remind us...

Apr 1, 2020, 1:23 PM

Corona lessons: Time and pace

It’s like living in a whirlwind of all the lame things that were wished upon us -- “May you live in interesting times,” “A pox on your house,” “Be careful what you wish for” (as in: “I wish I...

Mar 18, 2020, 4:43 PM

Corona Thoughts

If we pay just a bit more attention to events in our lives, we will often find that many of them, especially the noxious ones, are actually telling us something Originally, I was going to submit a piece about the...

Jan 22, 2020, 10:33 PM

The Rest of the Story

When I was growing up, there was a program on television hosted by Paul Harvey which looked at important and well known events in history. He would review the story quickly and then give new information which either clarified,...

Aug 19, 2019, 10:58 PM

How to sit shiva

You can tell a lot about a family from how they observe shiva and I’m not necessarily speaking about religion. I came to pay a shiva call to my friend, whose father had just passed away. The house was...

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About Me

D'vorah Klein is a Child and Family Therapist with a B.A. in PsychologyMasters in Clinical Social Work, an LCSW-C in Child and Family Therapy and over two decades of experience. A Learning Disabilities specialist, she served as a Teacher Trainer and School Advisor for 9 years in the Baltimore City School System and several private schools. She now has a private practice in Bet Shemesh.

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