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Dr. Michelle Friedman is Director of Pastoral Counseling at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah in New York City. She is on staff at Mt. Sinai Hospital as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, and she has a private psychiatric practice. This article appears in issue 3 of Conversations, the journal of the Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals.

 “Rabbi, this is hard to talk about but…

            …. our son has a non-Jewish
girlfriend.”

….I’m
feeling really shaky. My ex-husband abused me for years and now our daughter is
getting married. I don’t know if I can make it through the wedding.”

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