As a Jew, how much do we hide to keep safe? How much do we comfortably share that we’re Jewish without worry? Now, how much do we raise our voices loudly in protest of increasing antisemitism in this country and around the world?  I drifted far from my Jewish...

She was the daughter of immigrants from Eastern Europe who emigrated first to Winnipeg, Canada and then Los Angeles in the early 1900s. Refugees from pogroms, they believed fiercely that all four of their children should only marry a Jew. As a teenager, my mother...

So sometimes I think the only thing that separates the client from the therapist is the desk. One therapist I know who sucks her thumb in between sessions, but she’s smart, responsible and effective in her work. Another therapist still puts his current marriage at...