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Oct 13, 2026, 4:58 AM

Acharei HaChagim: Our Children’s Recovery Can’t Wait for Next Year

Long-term recovery requires ongoing support: A family engages in a therapeutic session at ELI - Israel Association for Child Protection.

Every Israeli knows the phrase. Acharei hachagim. After the holidays. It is the answer to almost every question asked in September. When will the contractor finish the kitchen? Acharei hachagim. When does the new project launch? When will I finally...

Oct 10, 2026, 1:40 AM

A letter from a formerly suicidal IDF reservist

(fizkes via iStock)

I didn't think I could get PTSD at my desk job after October 7. My mother knew better – and what she did saved my life

Oct 9, 2026, 8:44 AM

Shalom Brothers: Before There Was Manhood (Bereishit)

Before there were expectations about what a man should be, there was Adam. Not the Adam of Hebrew-school pictures or later theology. Not the patriarch, provider, alpha male, or “real man.” Before any of those categories existed, Genesis gives...

Priyanka Chandel

Oct 8, 2026, 11:52 PM

Children of Israel-Gaza: War, Trauma & Healing

The third anniversary of 7 October 2023 arrives this week. On that day Hamas-led militants killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 251 hostages, children among them. The last hostage was returned to Israel on 26 January 2026,...

Oct 8, 2026, 9:33 PM

When things bother you, take a break and remove yourself from this world.

Nowadays the hiddenness of HaShem is so strong. Even though HaShem is infinitely great, He humbles Himself just to take care of you. You need to do your personal prayers every day for them to work. Otherwise, you get swept back into the worries...

Oct 8, 2026, 3:16 PM

Mental Health in the Parsha – Parshat Bereishit: It Was Never Good to Be Alone

לא טוב היות האדם לבדו
“It is not good for a person to be alone.”

This week we start the Torah once again, from the very beginning. And it happens that this Shabbat, October 10th, is World Mental Health Day. That timing feels like more than a coincidence. Because if you read Bereishit slowly,...

Oct 8, 2026, 1:33 AM

Hadassah Hospital Hospice Diaries: The Families

The author on the patio of Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus Hospice. Photo courtesy of the author.

This is the fourth in an ongoing series on volunteering at the Ina and Jack Kay Hospice at Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus. “Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life;...

Oct 7, 2026, 2:25 PM

We studied American Jews’ mental health after Oct. 7. They’re not OK

(JTA; images via Getty Images)

From fear of antisemitic attacks to being demonized by institutions where they'd felt at home, Diaspora Jews are in pain

Oct 6, 2026, 4:49 AM

10/7 Three Years After the Hamas Terrorist Attack

Three years after October 7, there is still no comfortable way to write about hope. How does one discuss progress without appearing to diminish the murdered? How does one acknowledge military victories while families continue to live with unbearable loss?...

Oct 5, 2026, 11:40 PM

We Call Them Heroes. Why Are They Carrying the Trauma Alone?

What Prof. Chen Kugel’s PTSD diagnosis reveals about the hidden cost of October 7 for Israel’s frontline helpers. They are not made of iron. Three years after October 7, Prof. Chen Kugel, director of Israel’s National Center of Forensic Medicine at...

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