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Jun 24, 2026, 5:24 AM

The Politics of Making Others Weep

This essay is part of an ongoing series on “peace preparation” — the emotional, relational, and narrative work that political agreements cannot do. Drawing on decades of work with couples, families, and dialogue programs, I’m exploring how grief, identity,...

Jaclyn S. Clark

Jun 22, 2026, 11:54 PM

They Called Zionism a Disease. The Feds Just Called It Discrimination

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I spent the spring arguing that after Chiles, it was civil-rights law — not licensing boards — that still had teeth for Jews in the mental health field. Last week, the federal government reached for it. Picture the chair. Not a...

Jun 22, 2026, 8:09 PM

Pride Month and the Case for Men’s Spaces

Pride Month is not a season for lecturing people about identity. It is a season for listening carefully to what people tell us about who they are, what they have survived, and what they need in order to live...

Jun 19, 2026, 7:07 PM

Men’s Work and Juneteenth

Juneteenth marks the day when enslaved people in Texas were finally told they were free. It is a holiday about delayed freedom, but also about what happens when a country has to face the difference between what it claims...

Jun 18, 2026, 10:29 PM

The Conversation Liberal Parents Still Aren’t Having With Their Sons

There are mixed reviews of the UFC spectacle that took place on the White House south lawn for the President’s eightieth birthday. And then there are altogether oblivious reviews of the event even if they come from a loving...

Jun 18, 2026, 3:37 PM

Book review: The Jewish Woman’s Health Handbook

The All in the Family episode Gloria and the Riddle aired in October 1972. Gloria asked the following riddle: A father and his son are in a car accident. The father dies, and the boy is rushed to the...

Jun 18, 2026, 1:45 PM

Mental Health in the Parsha: Chukat: When Grief Meets the Last Straw

This week's parsha is bracketed by death. Miriam dies near the start. Aharon dies near the end. And in between sits one of the most painful moments in Moshe's whole life. He loses his temper, hits a rock, and...

Jun 17, 2026, 10:43 PM

The View From The Promised Land

Please read the following quotes: “With regard to your inclination toward a feeling of sadness, a good remedy for it is to have it firmly engraved on your mind that G‑d, the Creator of the world, watches over everyone individually...

Deborah Villanueva

Jun 17, 2026, 5:34 AM

Healing a Nation: What Hadassah Means to Israel’s Body and Soul

Photo of the author courtesy of the author.

There are moments in Israel when the line between emergency medicine and emotional survival disappears. You see it in hospital hallways. You hear it in the voices of teenagers carrying grief too large for their age. You feel it in...

Jun 15, 2026, 10:10 AM

What the Hell Is Masculinity?

Two young fish are swimming along when an older fish passes by and asks, “How’s the water?” The young fish nod politely and swim on. A few moments later, one turns to the other and asks, “What the hell...

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