R.I.P. Lisa Fliegel

They buried the 65 year-old trauma therapist this week. She had decided that her final act of tikun olam was to donate her organs so other could live.

Fliegel’s work as a trauma therapist included stints counseling the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing, combatants in Northern Ireland and most recently, the survivors of the massacre in Israel on Oct. 7. Read an appreciation in The Forward.