The long days of summer have somehow added up to short months and we are approaching a year since the events of October 7. In the midst of this time of tension and pain, we encounter Tisha B’Av. Marcie shares her reflections on Tisha B’Av and how the day feels this year. […]
"See, today I set before you blessing and curse." Moses stands before the people, they are facing the future and he is facing the desert, he will not be entering the promised land. "See today," he tells them. Re'eh, see, in the singular, not "see" in the plural, addressing them as though they were one person, as though speaking to each one individually. Re'eh, as if speaking to himself, knowing that what the heart sees, the eyes do not see. To see the future is to know how to choose. To choose, one must know how to remember, to recall, and to look back. […]
Parashat Toldot, presents a painful model of togetherness – "together we will prevail" is the togetherness of difference. Of those who recognize and give space to the differences among them and yet still are able to come together for common goals. […]
At the beginning of the parasha Moses tells the nation how God refused to hear him. Later he will ask them to hear and listen to him, he will repeat the Ten Commandments to them and remind the people in front of him how their hearts did not have enough faith and love to hear and listen to God. Their disbelief, causing him to be a mediator before God for forty years in the desert, exhausted him. […]
Building Recovery from Within:
Culture, Community, and Holding the Holders in Times of Collective Trauma
A Practice-Based Framework Developed from BINA’s Work Since October 7, 2023
Research report
Anva Ratzon, MSW
Community Specialist, Independent Researcher
Carmit Rapaport, Ph.D .
University of Haifa
September 2026 […]
This week, Marcie Yoselevsky, External Relations Associate at BINA speaks with Vered Avidan about leading Kabbalat Shabbat these last weeks. […]
Oct 7th Reflections Ayala Dekel, Nir Braudo, Marcie Yoselevsky and Avi Austin Bierman share their reflections as we approach this […]
During Sukkot, we leave the familiar and permanent home and enter the sukkah- a temporary and simple dwelling. This unique transition invites us to ask a fundamental question about our lives: What actually turns a place, even a temporary one, into a home? Is it the walls, the furniture, the thatched roof, the decorations? […]
I feel a little bit like Jacob right now. I’m turning to the heavens and requesting from his holiness or God or karma to prove itself. Come and show yourself to me. Come and prove that you are on our side. Send me signals that the good will overcome the evil, the conniving, the conspiracies, and the hardnesses of the heart. […]
Who is “the angel who has redeemed me”? Is it the same angel with whom Jacob wrestled, before earning the name Israel? Did he miss or remember him? How will the angel bless the boys from all evil? And why the Divine Presence does not allow Israel to foresee the future of his loved ones? […]
