Psychology | The Blogs

Apply for a Blog

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Nov 27, 2023, 12:30 AM

How Hamas weaponizes our joy

Natan Sharansky was undefeated by the KGB’s cruel psychological torture, now we too must gird our minds against assault

Nov 26, 2023, 1:02 PM

Visions and skulls

View of the "Hostage Square" in Tel Aviv, November 23, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

You shouldn’t watch graphic GoPro videos, your brain thinks it’s really happening. But it’s too late. I’ve seen them all.

Nov 26, 2023, 12:44 PM

The Hermit and the Other

My first book on Kabbalah was, "Experiencing the Kabbalah," by Cicero and Cicero, that I happened to pick it up in a Borders bookstore when I was reading many self-help books. It was not a Jewish view on Kabbalah,...

Nov 26, 2023, 7:32 AM

The First Sephirah of Love: Chesed

Out of a Universe of power, motion, movement, creation, Beauty, and confusion, derived from G-d's Divine Breath, we dwell on our tiny planet Earth, wondering about our lives. Will my car get a flat tire? Will my children abandon...

Nov 25, 2023, 10:50 PM

Discovering Kabbalah

As a child, my life was wonderful, in part. Every August, I roamed our tourist farm in Eastern Pennsylvania freely. I commanded the hill that ran from the Main House to the lake, learned how to milk cows, rode...

Nov 24, 2023, 10:04 AM

Will the children who were taken hostage by Hamas ever feel safe again?

The children and babies kidnapped on October 7 and held hostage by terrorists in the Gaza Strip. (Israel's official Twitter account)

Thinking of the Israeli children and babies held hostage the past 47 days has been almost unbearable. Their kidnapping is the worst nightmare of every parent - we can’t help but imagine ‘what if this was my child?’ At night...

Nov 22, 2023, 10:29 PM

ACT Therapy, Chanukah and the wars of Israel

A few months ago, someone I met taught me about ACT, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. This psychotherapy technique encourages the patient to accept their internal and external realities and to respond according to their beliefs and values. One particular...

Nov 17, 2023, 6:15 AM

Questions Needing Answers

Questions Needing Answers Remember Ukraine? Remember television commentators wearing flak helmets and vests with the word “PRESS” written boldly across their chests, bombs flashing in the distance, brave reporters and their camera men/women forced to move to a safer place?...

Nov 15, 2023, 10:48 AM

How Israel feels now

"Good neighbors even in hard times" street sign in Kiryat Tivon. Photo by author.

As if it required an equal, opposite reaction, Hamas's evil unleashed a fierce love - the open, visible, proactive goodness that is deep in all of us

Bracha Zornberg Gross

Nov 15, 2023, 12:51 AM

Healing our trauma: Will the world help or hinder?

Families of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza and supporters hold up their photographs, at "Hostage Square,” outside the Art Museum of Tel Aviv, October 26, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Global support for Israel's pain may be critical for the nation to recover from October 7 without PTSD

Load more