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Aug 12, 2024, 8:17 AM

Feeling Excluded on Tisha B’Av

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It was as if I had received an invitation to the wedding of a friend’s child. I was thrilled to be included. I happily attended as a guest, and I danced enthusiastically. Then when the wedding photos were shared,...

Apr 29, 2022, 9:00 PM

Yes, and: A response to JOFA and its crisis

A JOFA program at Lincoln Square Synagogue, New York City, February 2019. (Facebook)

Just because an organization does good, important work doesn't mean it can't make a mistake. We must do better, and without cancelling all that has been done

Aug 26, 2020, 8:41 PM

White Oak Pond, women and tehillim: Staying connected during COVID

God's creation

On March 12th, my husband and I left New York, and drove to our own personal slice of Gan Eden, on White Oak Pond, in Holderness, New Hampshire. We are deeply attached to this part of the world, as...

Dec 9, 2019, 2:48 PM

I matter, but I don’t count: Reflections on saying Kaddish

Illustrative (Original photo by Nati Shohat / Flash90)

In some places I could pray out loud, in others I could whisper. And then there were the shuls where men told me God didn't want my prayer

Apr 6, 2017, 6:41 AM

Reflections on my father’s legacy

She found R. Herschel Schacter's letter explaining why he left his pulpit for a WWII army chaplaincy

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About Me

Ms. Schacter is a psychoanalyst in private practice on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, seeing both individuals and couples. Ms. Schacter is on the faculty of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, a Rabbinical School in New York where she coordinates the students' professional development, and teaches Pastoral Counseling.