Cherie Brown

Cherie Brown is the founder and executive director of the National Coalition Building Institute, an organization that trains people to lead programs on reducing prejudice and developing coalitions.

The impact of anti-Semitic persecution, especially the Holocaust, has been psychologically damaging for many Jews, including those who were born after the Holocaust. Jewish ritual has been one way of dealing with these traumas, but counseling and support groups are needed in order to help Jews cope with their internalized grief and terror.

Fifty years have passed since the end of the Holocaust. But the scars live on in the daily personal lives of the Jewish people in ways more pervasive and complex than many of us have understood. Among the Jewish people are those of the generation who witnessed—and in some cases were victims of—the Nazi Final...