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Dr. Naomi Vilko has spent nearly half a century helping people heal from trauma. Since beginning her career in psychiatry in 1978, she has treated patients struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder, addiction, depression, and the invisible wounds left by tragedy. Yet long before she understood trauma as a physician, she lived with it as the […]
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Tina Strobos was born in Amsterdam in 1920 to a socialist, atheist family that treated resistance as second nature. They were freethinking activists with generations of women who had sheltered refugees long before the Nazis darkened Europe. By 16 she was studying medicine in a comfortable Amsterdam home, intent on becoming a psychiatrist. But at […]
Adam Louis-Klein was a left-wing Yale philosophy grad, conducting fieldwork among indigenous Amazonians for his PhD in anthropology. Completely cut off from the world, he finally got online, and the horrors of October 7th hit him like a freight train -- and what he saw in his own academic circles shook him even more. Today […]
She was five weeks old when her parents fled their bombed-out village in North Vietnam. By six, she was on a plane to Israel. By twenty, she was a radar spotter on the Lebanese border, watching for Hezbollah. Today, Ai Lien Luong Phung owns four kosher restaurants in South Florida. This is her unusual story. […]
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Venezuela called Israel a genocidal, Nazi-like state. Is Israel right in sending a search and rescue team to help them?
