Sara Jacobovici

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Jul 3, 2016, 9:56 AM

Must be compassion fatigue

Here are 10 ways to boost your own ability to handle the barrage of bad news, and 10 ways to help your kids cope too

Jun 26, 2016, 2:49 PM

National Aliyah Day is redundant

Up to now my “only in Israel” contributions were made to the Facebook group of the same name describing experiences such as the following: Only in Israel... I am sitting on a patch of beach in Tel Aviv with a...

Mar 30, 2016, 1:32 PM

To Honor the Father

On November 18, 2015, I wrote a blog to honor my mother in life. She turned 96 this past November (to 120). Today is the 20th urtzeit of my father (Z”L), Joseph Jacobovici. Today, I write to honor his...

Nov 16, 2015, 6:27 PM

Art and Technology in Traumatic Times

Art: What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter or his ears if he is a musician? ...On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being,...

Oct 13, 2015, 12:03 PM

Reality – which one?

My soon to be 96 year old mother (ad 120) is struggling with fears related to post traumatic stress and it's disturbing her sleep, moving from one state of consciousness to another; from dream (nightmare) state to alert. Today,...

Oct 3, 2015, 11:20 PM

We Are Still at War – what do we do now?

I am writing in response to the murder of Eitam and Na'ama Henkin in front of their four children, the two men who were murdered and the wife of one of the men who is in serious condition and their two-year-old baby...

Jun 8, 2015, 4:48 PM

‘Sticks and Stones’

The power of words is a topic that is cross-generational, cross-cultural and cross discipline. Research on the power of words, whether from a developmental, psychological, neurological, anthropological, philosophical or theological perspective, all comes up with the same results; words...

Mar 23, 2015, 2:11 PM

Before we sit down to Seder and the reading of The Haggadah in less than two weeks, we need to ask the question now, “Why is Jonathan Pollard still imprisoned?” If this Seder Jonathan Pollard will not be freed, then...

Dec 12, 2014, 7:30 AM

Our struggle for survival is not an illusion.

“Kafkaesque” has made it into the dictionary. Among the various definitions Kafkaesque is something "marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity." Case in point: Organisers of a national Holocaust memorial event have banned any mention of Israel. The trustees of Holocaust...

Dec 3, 2014, 11:03 PM

The wave of Antisemitism has turned into a Tsunami.

“Hitler had an all-powerful ally without whom he could have never succeeded. His ally was the world that chose to remain silent as Germany kept testing the limits of the universal tolerance for its evil actions.” The silence of...

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About Me

Bio: Born in Israel, grew up in Montreal, Canada, studied in the States, worked in Toronto, Canada and made Aliyah in 2009. Sara Jacobovici is a 30 year veteran in the health and mental health fields as a Creative Arts Psychotherapist. She lives and works in Ra'anana, Israel. As an expert in the field of non-verbal communication, Sara reconnects individuals with their first language, the creative arts; visual arts, music and movement.