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Cathy Lawi

Cathy Lawi

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

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When Grief Has Not Finished Speaking

When Grief Has Not Finished Speaking

There is something we ask of ourselves on memorial days that we rarely name: we ask ourselves to remember in a way that is already complete. To stand...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Cathy Lawi

We Choose Life

We Choose Life

Yom HaShoah 5786 — A Reflection from Wartime Israel There is a question that keeps surfacing in me, beneath the sirens, beneath the news, beneath...

13.04.2026 30

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Cathy Lawi

The Shoah. The Farhud. This War. One Inherited Wound.

The Shoah. The Farhud. This War. One Inherited Wound.

What two catastrophes transmitted to their descendants, and what this war reactivated in both of us I am a trauma specialist. I have spent twenty...

11.04.2026 40

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Cathy Lawi

Ma Nishtana 2026 Seven ways this Passover is different from all other Passovers

Every year the youngest child at the table asks: “why is this night different from all other nights?” This year the question is clearer than ever....

31.03.2026 60

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Cathy Lawi

What Hope Does to Me, and What I Do to Hope

On choosing life when the sirens sound A personal essay from Israel I do not know if I will be here next week. This is not a metaphor. And yet, I get...

13.03.2026 60

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Cathy Lawi

I Don’t Know If I’ll Be Here Next Week

On living with mortal danger and the inexplicable joy of belonging to this people A personal essay from Israel I do not know if I will still be here...

08.03.2026 60

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Cathy Lawi

Moral injury, Elul, and the healing path

10.09.2025 40

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Cathy Lawi