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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 434

childhood trauma

Illustrative: Laboratory mice. (toeytoey2530/Istock via Getty Images)
December 18, 2023, 7:33 am
New Israeli study investigates childhood trauma and its prospects for reversal
As concern mounts for the psychological health of young victims of the war and terror, Weizmann Institute researchers look at why some people are prone to triggering later in life
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A 'Shabbos Table' set from Kids Play depicts a typical Haredi Orthodox family at home. The designer, Shlomi Eiger, says the brand is part of a 'contemporary trend of Haredi children's toys and games designed from within the community.' (Omar Friedman/ JTA)
May 2, 2022, 2:39 am
How US toy makers and publishers created an alternative Jewish universe
Lego rabbis, Hasidic coloring books and teen books — minus the boyfriends — are just a few ways in which popular culture has been adapted for Haredi kids
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Children going into 1st grade attend school on their first day of the new academic year at the Pola school in Jerusalem, on September 1, 2021. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
January 26, 2022, 12:22 am
Depression, anxiety in children jumped during pandemic, study shows
Children forced to quarantine multiple times were more likely to exhibit violence toward friends and family and outbursts of anger, according to National Council for the Child
By Amy Spiro
Illustrative photo of a young girl at home during coronavirus lockdown. (iStock photo/ lakshmiprasad S)
November 25, 2020, 4:27 am
US experts: Ongoing coronavirus health crisis taking toll on kids’ mental health
Frontline workers, child therapists find anecdotal evidence for higher rates of problem behaviors, depression, and anxiety in children as adults also struggle to cope with pandemic
By Cathryn J. Prince
Lebanese children clean debris in Beirut's Gemmayzeh neighborhood on August 8, 2020, four days after a monster explosion killed more than 150 people and disfigured the Lebanese capital. (AFP)
August 11, 2020, 8:18 pm
‘I don’t want to die’: Blast traumatizes Beirut children
UN estimates that port explosion displaced about 100,000 children as harrowing stories emerge of kids reacting with terror, parents trying to help them cope with fear
By Rouba El Husseini
Covers of 'Stalag' pornographic comic books from early 1960s Israel (Courtesy: Heymann Films)
November 17, 2016, 4:29 am
When Israel banned Nazi-inspired ‘Stalag’ porn
As the Knesset prepares a bill to ‘filter’ Internet pornography, a peek at the Jewish state’s 1963 show-down with Holocaust-infused comics
By Matt Lebovic
Author Helen Maryles Shankman brings X-Men sensibilities to Holocaust horrors in Wlodawa, Poland. (courtesy)
May 27, 2016, 5:31 pm
Raised with miracle of parents’ survival, author writes magical Holocaust tales
With the X-Men and vampires as her influences, Helen Maryles Shankman brings ‘fabulist’ realism to Wlodawa, Poland
By Matt Lebovic
The parents of four-month-old Daniel Gerson at the Schneider Children's Hospital, Petach Tikva, March 3, 2016 (Channel 2)
March 3, 2016, 11:51 pm
Baby in serious condition after allegedly shaken by nanny
Tot ‘wouldn’t stop crying,’ says suspect, who received a suspended sentence 12 years ago for abusing a foster child
By Sue Surkes
A visitor walks by barbed wire fences at the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. (AP/Alik Keplicz)
January 25, 2016, 8:16 pm
Holocaust toddlers nearly twice as likely to develop schizophrenia
Study reinforces argument that survivors carried suffering into later life, rather than emerging stronger and healthier
By Sue Surkes
Sister of the late Golani soldier, Moshe Malko, is held by other family relatives as she cries over the fresh grave of her brother, at the Har Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, on July 21, 2014. Staff Sgt. Moshe Malko, 20, from Jerusalem, was killed the before during combat in the Gaza Strip. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/FLASH90)
August 3, 2014, 10:23 am
How do you bandage the wounds you can’t see?
The entire population of Israel is feeling anxiety, experts say, but a small and growing number will have lasting trauma
By Debra Kamin
Zimra Vigoda
April 23, 2013, 10:48 am
Zimra Vigoda
It’s not safe here, we gotta’ go back to Israel
Boston bombs and fire sirens in the U.S. strike a traumatic chord in children transplanted from Beer Sheba
Ruth Mason
April 21, 2012, 10:35 pm
Ruth Mason
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