THE DOCTOR IS IN
Jul 30, 2019
3 minutes
BY KIRSTIN FAWCETT
R. RUTH WESTHEIMER is familiar to most as the disarmingly frank and funny sex therapist and radio and TV personality. Fewer know that the college professor was once a sniper for the Israeli army. But there’s a side to her identity that Westheimer now, at 91, wants to make more public: orphan of the Holocaust. The story is told in a documentary out last May, Raised Orthodox Jewish, Westheimer fled Frankfurt, Germany, for Switzerland in 1939 when she was just 10 years old. She never saw her parents or grandparents
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