10/08/2026
What does healing look like after unimaginable trauma? Sometimes, it begins with six hours of uninterrupted sleep and a dream that isn't a nightmare.
This summer, Ramah Darom welcomed approximately 100 Israeli reservists from the Golani Brigade's 13th Battalion for an 11-day healing retreat in partnership with Bshvil Hamachar.
In a moving article published yesterday in eJewishPhilanthropy, Ramah Darom Retreat Center Director Eliana Leader and Bshvil Hamachar Chief Development Officer Maya Talmon Chvaicer share how the power of place, community, and philanthropic partnership created space for rest, connection, and healing in the North Georgia mountains.
Read “What We Can Offer That Cannot Be Sent”: https://loom.ly/_RBZ2Pw
On one of the final mornings of an 11-day healing retreat, an Israeli soldier approached one of the facilitators with news. Since the war began, he had not been able to sleep through the night. He woke regularly and needed both assistance and medication. But that morning, he told the facilitator som...