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Karine Spiess

May 7, 2026, 10:48 PM

Why Good People Stop Hearing Jews When Israel Comes Up

If you're Jewish and you've spent the last two years trying to explain yourself to someone you care about, and every conversation ends the same way, this is for you. You know the feeling. You sit down with a friend,...

May 7, 2026, 4:28 AM

Why Other Religions Are Confidently Wrong About Us

Still standing today and carved shortly after the events of 70 CE. It stands as one of the only contemporary visual records of the Temple's sacred vessels: the Menorah, the silver trumpets, and the Table of the Showbread. It locks the brutal reality of that exile into stone.

A Muslim friend recently told me that "middah k'neged middah," which means measure for measure, was proof that Judaism is evil. He had translated it as "an eye for an eye" and presented it as the ethical core of...

Apr 14, 2026, 5:48 PM

What Your Jewish Friends Can’t Say

If you have Jewish friends, they're probably feeling something right now that they're not telling you. Not because they don't trust you. Because every time they've tried to say it, the conversation ends. They get labeled. Dismissed. Told to "wake...

About Me

Karine Spiess is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor based in Tampa, Florida, and the founder of the Invisible Spectrum Adults Initiative. She is a Sephardic Moroccan Jewish mother of two and the daughter of refugees who fled Morocco in the 1970s. Her work explores the invisible psychological frameworks behind human behavior, identity, and conflict.