Personal Perspectives

Etan Neiman
Etan Neiman
Etan Neiman, CPA, is Refuat Hanefesh's Director of Operations and was previously Editor-in-Chief. He grew up in Chicago, Illinois and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Yeshiva University's Sy Syms School of Business. While at Yeshiva, Etan was editor of the student newspaper's Business Section and President of their Active Minds chapter, a national organization committed to decreasing mental health stigma on college campuses. He currently works as an Accounting Manager for Brand Sonnenschine providing advisory services.
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In January 2017, I got a Facebook message from Ariel Mintz asking if I had any interest in joining an upstart organization he created to address the mental health stigma in the Jewish community. A few days later, on my first day of my first job out of college, I spoke at length with his Read More …

Nati Keswick-Faber
Nati Keswick-Faber
Nati Keswick-Faber made Aliyah from Southfield, Michigan to Alon Shvut, where he currently lives with his wife, Emuna. He is pursuing a Bachelor of Education with an emphasis on Tanakh, Talmud, and Jewish Thought at Herzog Teaching College. Nati is also enrolled in the Musmachim Smikha program and learns in the Kollel Halacha at Yeshivat Har Etzion. As a future Jewish educator, Nati hopes to increase the availability of mental health resources and to help end the stigma against those who are struggling with their mental health in the broader Jewish community.
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As this is being written, one of the main issues at the forefront of the cultural consciousness is ableism and the use of an ableist slur, spaz. (For the rest of this piece, I will refer to the word as the “S-word”, but for the sake of clarity, I felt it was important to write Read More …

Nati Keswick-Faber
Nati Keswick-Faber
Nati Keswick-Faber made Aliyah from Southfield, Michigan to Alon Shvut, where he currently lives with his wife, Emuna. He is pursuing a Bachelor of Education with an emphasis on Tanakh, Talmud, and Jewish Thought at Herzog Teaching College. Nati is also enrolled in the Musmachim Smikha program and learns in the Kollel Halacha at Yeshivat Har Etzion. As a future Jewish educator, Nati hopes to increase the availability of mental health resources and to help end the stigma against those who are struggling with their mental health in the broader Jewish community.
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There’s something that doesn’t sit right with calling myself- or anyone for that matter- an “ally” to people who struggle with their mental health. To be an ally implies that, while one supports and is sensitive to a community, they themselves are not a member of that group. When it comes to mental health, I Read More …

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For several years after my daughter was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, she regularly told me she wanted to die. Or, more accurately put, she wanted to kill herself. At first, the fear of dying in pain kept her in check, and then she fixated on those failed suicides whose lives as quadriplegics or hooked Read More …

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For decades, mental health has been a taboo topic, only to be whispered about – if that. It has been heartening to see this reality slowly but steadily be overturned over the past several years. I would like to contribute to that process by discussing perhaps the most consequential time for our youth’s mental health: their Read More …

anonymous
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Over the past several months, words and terms which were hardly ever used by the common person have all of a sudden made their way to the tips of our tongues. Quarantine, masks, and social distancing seem to have their place in just about every conversation. One newly popular word which has particularly caught my Read More …

Etan Neiman
Etan Neiman
Etan Neiman, CPA, is Refuat Hanefesh's Director of Operations and was previously Editor-in-Chief. He grew up in Chicago, Illinois and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Yeshiva University's Sy Syms School of Business. While at Yeshiva, Etan was editor of the student newspaper's Business Section and President of their Active Minds chapter, a national organization committed to decreasing mental health stigma on college campuses. He currently works as an Accounting Manager for Brand Sonnenschine providing advisory services.
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In the waning moments of the 2020 Democratic National Convention (DNC) and shortly before his highly anticipated acceptance speech, Joe Biden made the decision to give precious airtime to 13-year-old Brayden Harrington of New Hampshire. What did the kid do with the attention of millions of Americans focused on him? He looked them in the Read More …

Tzivia Appleman
Tzivia Appleman
Tzivia Appleman graduated from the HANC High School class of 2017. She spent the following year studying in Israel at MMY and is currently in its Shana Bet program. Afterwards, she will be attending NYU. Tzivia is from Plainview, New York and is the former Regional President of New York NCSY. She's a passionate Jew who loves to write and take down the stigma!
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When I first started watching This Is Us, I immediately fell in love with the relatable and compelling storyline: the childhood, the adolescence, and the adulthood of a very special family that almost seems too perfect. That is until you realize that, from the very first moment, the family is far from “perfect,” making the Read More …