Dear Friends, I hope that wherever you are in the world, you and your family are keeping safe and healthy. As we prepare for the Yamim Noraim, I want to share with you a wonderful new resource for anyone with questions about the halacha and philosophy of this season as it relates to mental health. I encourage you to read and share this invaluable booklet, written by Rabbi Yoni Rosensweig, an expert on the subject. Across the globe, we can all see how people of all ages and ba

Kav L’Noar’s flagship Jerusalem therapy clinic has moved on, both physically and in the way it now serves clients. The clinic is for young people aged 10-21 and now runs in partnership with the Lamerchav Institute, which means that the cost of most sessions is covered by Israel’s kupot cholim (Israel’s national health insurance providers). This will be the first time that English-speaking olim will be able to access kupot-funded therapy in English in Jerusalem. As a result, f

This summer, Kav L’Noar bade a fond farewell to our clinical supervisor for the last 12 years, Rina Berkus. We wish Rina a very happy retirement. We are delighted to welcome Hadas Schroeder Rahamim as Kav L’Noar’s new clinical supervisor and wish her every success. Hadas grew up in Jerusalem as one of five children born to American immigrant parents. She became a psychologist at the same time as becoming a mother. For Hadas, her identities as a mother and as a psychologist ar

In math 1 + 1 = 2 but in a relationship 1 + 1 = 3 Hello Danny. Great question. Before I get to an answer, I’d like to recommend that you refer this question to your therapist. This way you can bring the relevance of the answer back to your personal situation. To your question, although a relationship consists of two spouses, the connection between them creates a third entity - the relationship. This entity has its own inner-mental world that includes consciousnesses, worldvie

Hello, First of all I congratulate you for sharing, especially when it comes to a sensitive issue like this. There are many people who are confused about the difference between seeing a qualified therapist and having a conversation with a friend. But, in fact, they are very different -- one of the main points being that conversations with a therapist are not a one-time thing. The meeting with the professional is a regular, weekly, set meeting, for which both participants have

Dear Friends, In a few days, we’ll all be sitting down for the Pesach Seder. We’ll begin by remembering our historic suffering and end with singing next year in Jerusalem. Every year we are reminded that we cannot truly appreciate redemption without first reflecting on the struggles that came before. This year, as we prepare to return to normal life, we have the added opportunity to reflect on what the difficult experience of Covid-19 has shown us as well. Over the past year,

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Hello, I got married about a year and a half ago to a good man with no history of mental health issues, In the last few weeks he has started to stay at home and sleep a lot too at the expense of work, he is very self-contained and hardly talks to me and does not want to leave the house. When I ask him if anything is wrong he says everything is fine, sometimes he says he has no power to live. I am terribly afraid of what he is going through but I’m also at a loss for what to d

Written By Mordechai Katz With the introduction of vaccines for covid-19, it seems that, hopefully, the world will no longer have to be concerned about the virus anymore. It’s a pretty simple equation - take a disease, add a vaccine, and the disease goes away. And, hopefully, this equation will hold true for our current collective experience. Once enough people have the vaccine, no more quarantine, no more masks, no more getting upset at Knesset members for flaunting the rule

Can a child remain so different and yet still have a strong bond with their parents?

Bella was fifteen and had a very troubled relationship with her father. Her father had never had a good relationship with his own cold and distant parents, and he found it difficult to be any closer to his children. His own marriage was not much happier, and he tended to be very passive both at home and at work. Bella didn’t like how her father never stood up for himself, and yet she found herself putting him down all the time. She was also very over-controlling in her social

Daniel had never been popular. He didn’t try to fit in with his peers and gravitated towards outsiders. He had always been a strikingly beautiful child, but once he hit adolescence he styled his hair in a buzz cut and dressed exclusively in black, baggy clothes with chunky black army boots, always untied. He also always wore a collection of silver skull jewelry, with an earring, rings, and necklace all featuring the same motif. Despite this somewhat angry look, Daniel wasn’t

Dovy was 12 and the middle child of three brothers. His father and brothers had been die-hard Beitar Yerushalayim soccer fans since even before the family’s aliyah from Boston. They followed the team’s progress obsessively and after moving to Jerusalem three years ago, attended as many matches as they could. Dovy’s brothers both had lots of soccer-mad friends and also spent a lot of time playing soccer together with them in the park. Dovy had no interest whatsoever in either

Tami, a young mother of two, had always been a worrier and liked to be prepared for worst-case scenarios. She was the sort of person who when entering a new place would mentally check all available entrances and exits to make sure she had an escape route planned. She had a mental Rolodex of countless disasters that she’d read about, including terror attacks, car crashes, freak accidents, and unusual illnesses, and she would often find herself imagining what she would do if an