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A healing space for Nova Festival survivors after Oct. 7

September 28, 2024October 8, 2024Arsen Mayer

The Nova festival brought together a starlit desert night and boundless joy. Nova was a space dedicated to honoring inner light and goodness. Then came October 7. When Israelis went to sleep that night, they expected to wake up to a regular Shabbat-Simchat Torah morning. Instead, they woke to an onslaught torn from the most […]

Survivors of the Nova massacre find healing through yoga

March 9, 2024March 9, 2024Arsen Mayer

Soldiers returning from the front often find it difficult to readjust to normal life. Following past wars, they just had to grit their teeth and ignore their traumas, sometimes at an incalculable psychological cost. But now there are treatment options, such as the ancient Eastern mind-body discipline known as yoga. “After October 7, we immediately […]