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Metabolizing Intergenerational Trauma
Point of Relation Podcast interview with Thomas Hübl | October 24, 2023

Faith Groups Mobilized As A Global Day Of Action For Changes To Climate Policy
Featured Radio interview with KGNU Boulder/Denver | October 18, 2021

The Unique Perspective of a Spiritual Leader on Racism, COVID, and Political Upheaval
Higher Practice Podcast of the Integrative Psychiatry Institute with Dr. Will Van Derveer & Keith Kurlander | 2021

Lessons on healing trauma from a rabbi and an imam
Hosted by Jonathan Bastian, KCRW Radio | May. 02, 2020

Interview on the Dr. Pat Show: Talk Radio to Thrive By!
January 6, 2020 | “This is the book of the decade!” —Dr. Pat

Interview on KGNU Radio
February 25, 2019

Wounds Into Wisdom: Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma
Rabbi Tirzah Firestone interviewed by Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz
Valley Beit Midrash, Phoenix, AZ | January 22,2019

Lighting the Way in a Dark World: The Tzaddik & The Bodhisattva
Talk at Valley Beit Midrash, Phoenix, AZ | January, 2019

Jews Across America
Tablet Magazine, Episode 142 | July 3, 2018

Featured Articles & Reviews of Wounds into Wisdom

Wounds into Wisdom: Post Traumatic Hope — Book Review
By Michal Woll, Spirituality & Practice | November, 2023

Seven Principles for Recovering from Trauma
By Dale M. Kushner, Psychology Today | December 28, 2022

Recognizing and Healing Inherited Trauma – Part 2: A conversation with Jungian therapist and rabbi Tirzah Firestone
By Dale M. Kushner, Psychology Today | February 28, 2022

Inherited Wounds: Tirzah Firestone on Ancestral Healing
By Dale M. Kushner, Psychology Today | January 1, 2022

Foreword Reviews listed Wounds into Wisdom as a 2019 Book of the Year Awards
finalist in both their Religion and Self-Help Categories.
Foreword Magazine | May-June, 2020

Traumatic times for traumatized people
By Larry Yudelson, Jewish Standard | April 23, 2020

Epigenetics: Intergenerational Wounds into Wisdom
By Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone, Common Ground Magazine, Pages 34-37 | December-February, 2019-2020

Wounds into Wisdom: Epigenetics and Generational Behavior Patterns
By Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone, Oracle 20/20 Magazine, Pages 16-17, 19 | December, 2019

Freedom from Trauma
11:11 Magazine, Pages 12-14 | November, 2019

Excerpt from Wounds into Wisdom
SpiritSeeker Magazine, Page 4 | October, 2019

Featured book pick in New Books Fall 2019
The Edge Holistic Living | September 1, 2019

Excerpt of Wounds into Wisdom
Print edition, Parabola Volume 44, No. 3, Fall 2019: Mercy & Forgiveness | August, 2019

Trauma and everyday life
Rabbi Rachel Esserman, Jewish Federation of Greater Binghamton’s The Reporter | July 12, 2019

The burdens of intergenerational Jewish trauma
Harriett Gross, Texas Jewish Post | July 3, 2019

Book Review: Facing Trauma, Personal and as a People
Jonathan Kirsch, Jewish Journal | June 19, 2019

Books We Adore: Wounds Into Wisdom
Dreamvisions 7 Radio | May 30, 2019

Book Review of Wounds into Wisdom on News Spirit Journal Online
Krysta Gibson, New Spirit Journal Online | June, 2019

A rabbi unpacks how trauma can live on and on
Bill Tammeus, “Faith Matters” Blog | June 5, 2019

Book Review: Now You Can Limit the Power of Hidden Traumas
Rabbi Goldie Milgram, The Philadelphia Jewish Voice | June 3, 2019

Book Release: Wounds into Wisdom
Editorial Review, Women’s eNews | May 28, 2019

The traumas of our individual and collective pasts do not simply vanish
Philip K. Jason, Phil Jason Reviews Books | May 26, 2019
“One of the most valuable new books for 2019.” This review appeared in the June 2019 issues of Federation Star (Jewish Federation of Greater Naples), L’Chayim (Jewish Federation of Lee and Charlotte Counties), and The Jewish News (Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee).

Branches Of Light- Spring | Summer | Fall Issue

Book Review of Wounds into Wisdom
Light of Consciousness Magazine (in print) | Summer, 2019

Image of the Day: Steinem and Firestone at the 92nd Street Y
Shelf Awareness | April 30, 2019

Rabbi Examines Trauma Passed Down Through Generations
By Howard Lovy, Publishers Weekly | April 8, 2019

Transcending Trauma: A Review of Wounds into Wisdom: Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma by Rabbi Tirzah Firestone
By Martha Sonnenberg, Tikkun Magazine | March 22, 2019

Acclaimed ‘Wounds into Wisdom’ author at Mt. Airy site
Chestnut Hill Local | March 22, 2019

“Wounds into Wisdom:” Reb Tirzah Talk at Boulder Book Store
Boulder Jewish News | March 14, 2019

Book Review featured in Spring Preview
NY Jewish Week | February 22, 2019

Review by Amos Lassen
By Amos Lassen | January 14, 2019

Religion Publishers Have Great Expectations For 2019
By Lynn Garrett, Publishers Weekly | December 14, 2018

Muslim Jewish Alliance of Boulder fosters interfaith solidarity
Daily Camera | September 23, 2018

Articles by Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, PhD.

Transgenerational Trauma Shaping History: The Power of Images
International Journal of Communal and Transgenerational Trauma, Issue 1 | March, 2022

Healing Ancestral Trauma to Heal Our Democracies
By Resmaa Menakem & Rabbi Tirzah Firestone | Shift Network | February, 2021

The High Price of Family Secrets: Healing Intergenerational Trauma
Jewess Magazine | April 25, 2019

Beyond Patriarchy: What to Do with the Legacy of Trauma and Fear
Tikkun Magazine | March 6, 2019
Published in Tikkun Magazine, Spring 2019

Standing Rock and Four Principles
Tikkun Magazine | November 29, 2016

The Legacy of Jewish Trauma
Tikkun Magazine | October 26, 2015

Trauma Legacies in the Middle East
Tikkun Magazine | July 22, 2014

Letters to The Editor

How Could a Woman Do That?
Boulder Daily Camera | May 22, 2019


News Stories

Boulder’s March for Unity brings together different faiths
By Amy Bounds, Boulder Daily Camera | August 25, 2019


Articles in Print

“War and Peace: Intertwining Threads in the Jewish Tradition”
The Warrior and the Pacifist: Competing Motifs in Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Lester Kurtz, Ed., Routledge Press | 2018

Articles published in Search for Common Ground News Service/Middle East:
“In the Shadow of Zion” | December, 2007
“Jewish State of Irony” | December, 2008
“The Pharaoh in Our Midst” | March, 2009

“Transforming Our Stories Through Midrash”
New Jewish Feminism: Probing the Past, Forging the Future
Edited by Rabbi Elyse Goldstein
Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT | 2009

“Flatbread in Feeble Times”
The Women’s Seder Sourcebook:
Rituals and Readings for Use at the Passover Seder
Edited by Anisfeld, Mohr & Spector
Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT | 2003