Inner Peace ... It Isn't Out There!

The Fifth Commandment: Honor thy father and thy mother. But what if thy father and thy mother didn’t garner thy honor? WALK AWAY! That’s what this author did to end her ongoing war with her relentlessly critical mother and emotionally vacant father. “Jenna” (author), a descendant of the Grand Rebbe of Belz (Poland), grew up in a community of Orthodox Jews who self-righteously monitored each other to guaranty nobody broke with tradition. Damaged by her mother’s manipulative guilt trips and r...