OU Israel Drama Therapy Department produces…SECRETS: The Diary of an Anglo Teen in Israel “My name is Talia and my secret is that I cut school today…and yesterday… and the day before, but no one cared. My name is Michael and my secret is that when I leave the house I take off my kippa.

I don’t recall as a kid ever having an existential crisis. Perhaps I was brought up well, perhaps it was a slower time (the 80’s?), perhaps I was just lucky, but I never considered the state of my intellectual mindset, or my emotional well being during those years. I think in the last 20 or