Israel Therapy is a new column, and a forthcoming podcast produced in partnership with Reboot Studios, helping people grapple with personal dilemmas and emotional issues around Israel. Its host, Libby Lenkinski, is an Israeli-American who has worked around the conflict…
Israel Therapy
The Latest
-
Israel Therapy Israel Therapy: My husband doesn’t think Israel has the right to exist — and I’ve never felt more Jewish
Is our marriage doomed?
-
Israel Therapy Israel Therapy: I haven’t cried in 6 weeks. What’s wrong with me?
Feelings aren’t linear — and some of our defenses against feeling too much actually help us
-
Israel Therapy Israel Therapy: I’m in college, and I refuse to choose between #standwithIsrael and #freePalestine
Polarization is a strategy, not an inevitability. We can choose solidarity with two peoples
-
Israel Therapy Israel Therapy: No one in my office seems to care about the war or its effect on me
Before you quit, try talking to your supervisor about how you feel
-
Israel Therapy Israel Therapy: How am I going to get through Thanksgiving?
To engage or to avoid, that is the question. Here’s how to know what your family can handle
-
Israel Therapy Israel Therapy: How can I engage on social media without getting myself in trouble?
Before you post, take a breath, check your sources…..and take another breath
-
Israel Therapy Israel Therapy: Should I sign onto an open letter calling for a cease-fire?
A checklist to help you think through signing anything to do with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
-
Israel Therapy Israel Therapy: Should I leave my home in NY to be in Israel with my grieving family?
Ask your relatives what they want. And remember: Travel is reversible
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
News Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors
- 2
Fast Forward Their Pacific Palisades synagogue is standing, but all three rabbis lost their homes
- 3
News ‘Do you have the Torahs?’ Synagogue races LA wildfire to rescue its past and future
- 4
Culture In Peter Yarrow’s legacy, an uneasy blend of Jewish values and personal transgressions
In Case You Missed It
-
Fast Forward 2 synagogues in Sydney graffitied with swastikas
-
Opinion ‘Just things’ — like what my LA neighbors have lost — are what makes houses into Jewish homes
-
Opinion Celebrating Shabbat in Los Angeles: Amid the fires, a still, small voice
-
Opinion ‘Home is memory’: How Jews make sense of what they’ve lost in the LA fires and what remains
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism