Holocaust survivor’s daughter learns how to escape lifelong struggle with anxiety, resentment and anger

Being the child of a Holocaust survivor can be difficult. Who could possibly understand the horrific experience? But one woman from the northern suburbs learned a lesson in forgiveness that could be helpful for anyone living with fear, anger or...

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Terror Hits Home: The Chicago Jewish News Cover Story

Karen’s story has also been published in the Deerfield Patch “Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.” -Eckhart Tolle It had been months since my children were all home and I couldn’t...

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Excerpt: Descendants of Rajgród

Just one mile south of Rajgród, toward Grajewo, off Highway 61 and near the border of another small village (named Opartowa), we found another dirt road leading to another village (named Okoniówce), where we turned off toward the lake. We...

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About Karen

Karen L. Kaplan was born and raised in West Rogers Park, a Jewish neighborhood on the north side of Chicago. She received her B.A. from the...

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Rajgród Memorial

Click the button below to download a PDF with information about the installation, desecration and repair of the Rajgrod monument

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#METOO

#metoo and yet there is a group of sexual predators that have not been recognized. They are our fathers, brothers, uncles, grandfathers and close family friends. My father sexually abused my mother and living in my home was traumatic and...

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A prayer for Yom Kippur 2017

Remembering a post from Larry Potash on WGN

Karen (Karenkaplan@att.net) shared a post from WGN-TV How a north suburban woman’s emotional trauma led her to forgiveness by Larry Potash A follow-up story: Authorities caught the gunmen who broke into a woman’s house in Deerfield three-years ago and tied up...

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Speaking to the KUZARI Women’s group at the Botanic Gardens

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    April 2015  A review from Greece Dear karen, what you went through  was not just a transformation. To me, it looks like a trip to hell. ……….. Thank God you are back, alive and well. And thanks for sharing. The book is not a simple memoir, in an era where pseudo-memoirs are in abudance. Your ...more

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