Service Description

Growing up in Israel during the Second Intifada, Miri never realized she was traumatized because the abnormal was normal. The fear of taking the bus because it could explode, opening the newspaper to find names of people who died in an attack, serving the army and knowing that she’d know someone who would be killed. She never gave the normalization of missiles and having a safe room at home and a shelter in a playscape a thought while living there.. Only after moving to the US to get her doctorate did she realize how the reality she grew up in was different. That is why she researched trauma related to terrorism and wrote a therapy book for children who were victims of attacks. Miri is also the Director of Trauma Training and services at Parents for Peace, an organization that was started by the family of a young, Black American man who was radicalized into Islam and committed terrorist acts. After October 7th, when her community and her colleagues failed to see her pain and to stand with her- Parents for peace stood up with Miri, the only Jewish member of the group, as they saw the pain and saw the importance of raising the voices of Jewish people.