The next meeting of the group will take place TOMORROW, Sunday October 27th from 2-4pm at the NYU Bronfman Center, 7 East 10th Street in NYC. I am deeply moved… READ MORE>>
Next Meeting of the 2GNYC Discussion Group: “Growing up in the Shadow of the Holocaust”
Posted by on October 26, 2019
Presentation Date: 10/27/19
Location: Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at New York University, located at 7 East 10th Street, New York, NY 10003
Intimacy as Spiritual Practice
Posted by on October 8, 2019
As Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement is upon us, we stop to take stock of our spiritual and interpersonal relationships. We acknowledge where we fell short of our ethical, emotional and relational ideals and standards, and we re-commit to strive to do better, to be our better self, to related more genuinely and more compassionately to others whose… READ MORE>>
Increased Empathy and Helping Behavior Toward the Mother in Daughters of Holocaust Survivors
Posted by on September 11, 2019
A new study by Sarit Alkalay, Abraham Sagi-Schwartz and Hadas Wiseman from Israel, published in the journal “Traumatology” this past July, reports interesting findings regarding daughters of (child) Holocaust survivors. The study showed that greater factual knowledge about the mother’s Holocaust experiences was associated with elevated internal feelings of empathy towards her, and also with external empathic responses toward the… READ MORE>>
2GNYC Meeting To Be Rescheduled
Posted by on September 8, 2019
Apologies that, due to unforeseen circumstances, today’s 2GNYC meeting had to be cancelled at short notice. I will post here the new schedule, once the meeting has been rescheduled for a future date. Irit Felsen
Free Webinar Series About 2G Dealing with Loss of Their Parents
Posted by on September 7, 2019
During the fall of 2018, I presented a six-part Webinar series and discussion group, entitled “Grief and Renewal After the Loss of a Holocaust Survivor“, which was sponsored by MJHS. Recordings of the six sessions are available and can be listened to online for free. More information is available by clicking on the image below, which will take you to… READ MORE>>