Never Alone
Never Alone exists to ensure that no young person ever stands at the edge of despair without guidance, memory, and community to hold them. We transform the Jewish legacy of resilience into a living, digital ecosystem that teaches emotional strength, identity, kindness, and moral clarity.
You don't need to be better before you belong.
Nothing is wrong with you for feeling this way.
You don't need to go through this night alone.
The Crisis We're Addressing
Youth Isolation
Teens are alone with anxiety, fear, and rising antisemitism. Traditional support systems feel distant, intimidating, or irrelevant to their lived experience.
Identity Confusion
Jewish identity feels abstract, political, or burdensome rather than personal and meaningful. Young people struggle to connect their heritage to their current reality.
Lack of Safe Access
Institutions feel intimidating or irrelevant, creating barriers to seeking help. Mental health stigma prevents youth from accessing the support they desperately need.
Never Alone addresses these three problems simultaneously by creating a private, stigma-free digital ecosystem that delivers continuous emotional support, personal embodied identity formation, and belonging.
Core Platform Features
Identity, history, emotional regulation, and community—the four ingredients that prevent collapse and generate resilience.
Resilience Story Library
Short, multimedia survivor-story modules with reflection prompts linking historical courage to modern challenges.
Jewish Resilience Timeline
Scrollable digital timeline from Exodus to present with survivor voices, images, and artifacts embedded.
Exhale—Emotional Tools
Short practices for anxiety, panic, and fear based on nervous system reset methods. Accessible instantly—no waiting, no appointments.
Heder Emet—The Truth Room
Private journaling plus emotional processing with guided reflection questions and optional anonymous sharing for moderated peer validation.
Circles of Connection
Moderated small-group circles on belonging and identity, plus AI-assisted triage connecting users to trained educators, rabbis, or counselors.
Spot & Stop Hate Toolkit
Teaches how to recognize antisemitism online and offline with safe-response scripts and reporting channels.
Strategic Impact & Vision
Never Alone ensures that every young Jew—whether anxious, uncertain, isolated, or searching—has immediate access to the tools, history, people, and identity they need to remain grounded, capable, and connected.
Identity, history, emotional regulation, and community—the ingredients that generate resilience
From story library to safety tools, each component strengthens the whole ecosystem
Meeting young people where they are with modern, stigma-free digital infrastructure
This platform delivers identity, history, emotional regulation, and community—the four ingredients that prevent collapse and generate resilience.
Golden Thread Events
Connect with community through meaningful gatherings, learning experiences, and shared moments of belonging.
Golden Threads — Our Letters to the Sun
A Live Panel Gathering
There are moments in history when a community must look itself in the eye and decide what future it is willing to build. Golden Threads — Our Letters to the Sun is one of those moments.
This extraordinary evening brings together four influential voices—Rabbi Marc Klein, Cheryl Reibel, Luba Evans, and Rebbi Jessica Mates—for a one-of-a-kind conversation about what it truly takes to weave a peaceful tomorrow in a world that feels increasingly fractured, reactive, and dangerously close to forgetting its own humanity.
This is not another panel of talking heads.
This is a cultural intervention.
We gather to confront a rising tide of antisemitism, polarization, and ideological warfare—not with fear, not with outrage, but with clarity, responsibility, and the most ancient weapon our people have ever carried: the written and spoken word.
Because hatred thrives where stories go untold.
Violence grows where identity collapses.
And a generation without memory becomes a generation without direction.
Golden Threads is a dialogue about the narratives we choose now—about how Jewish identity, emotional resilience, ethics, and spiritual inheritance can be reclaimed, strengthened, and expressed in ways that do not merely react to hate, but neutralize it at its source.
Rabbi Marc Klein
On the moral architecture of community and the responsibility of wisdom in chaotic times.
Cheryl Reibel
On turning historical scars into intergenerational strength, dignity, and agency.
Luba Evans
On the psychology of influence, identity formation, and the art of teaching human beings to choose connection over collapse.
Rebbi Jessica Mates
On cultivating practices that turn spirituality into action, language into legacy, and memory into a living force.
Together, they will explore the question at the heart of our shared future:
What will we pass forward—the shadows of conflict, or the light that dissolves them?
Golden Threads — Our Letters to the Sun invites you to sit inside a living tapestry of ideas, memory, and possibility. It is not only a panel. It is a declaration that the next chapter of Jewish identity will not be written in response to fear… but in devotion to the world we are determined to create.
Seats are limited.
History is listening.
And the future will belong to those who dare to write it.
Global Youth Calendar
Holidays, digital gatherings, local meetups, and campaigns give identity rhythm and shared community across time zones.
Local Gatherings
In-person meetups and community events that transform digital connections into real-world belonging and support.
Every event is designed to create spaces where young people can show up as they are, connect with others who understand, and experience the powerful reality that they are never alone.
Never Alone App
A next-generation digital resilience platform built to support Jewish teens and young adults facing anxiety, identity confusion, isolation, and rising antisemitism.
Safe & Private
Invite-only or verified access with moderation, anonymous reporting, and educator guidelines.
Always Available
Access emotional support, tools, and community 24/7 from anywhere.
Modern & Intuitive
Designed for how today's youth communicate, learn, and seek help.
Meet Them Where They Already Live
On their phones, with tools, connection, history, and identity without stigma or exposure.
About Us
The Ground of Resilience
Never Alone stands on the ground Cheryl Reibel reclaimed for all of us—the ground of Resilience.
Cheryl's book, Resilience: Amazing Courageous Stories of Young Holocaust Survivors, is not simply a collection of poems or historical reflections. It is a living bridge between generations—a testimony to what happens when young people face cruelty, terror, and abandonment, and yet somehow choose life, connection, and meaning.
These stories are not relics of the past. They are instructions for the future.
Each survivor Cheryl wrote about began where many of today's youth find themselves: overwhelmed, unseen, and unsure if anyone will ever hear their voice. The fact that these children endured the unendurable—and still held on to their humanity—proves something essential:
Resilience is not inherited. Resilience is ignited.
This single idea is the heartbeat of our work.
The Never Alone app, the curriculum, and the broader initiative draw directly from the emotional architecture expressed in Cheryl's book:
Belonging as a lifeline
Storytelling as identity reconstruction
Art as a pathway to healing
Connection as the antidote to despair
Just as her book connects the past to the present, Never Alone connects the present to the future—ensuring that young people today never experience isolation as destiny or silence as fate.
What Was Survived
Where Resilience documents what was survived, Never Alone builds what must now be created: A world where no child, no teenager, no young adult ever faces their breaking point alone.
What Must Be Created
Cheryl preserved the stories. Now, together, we build the systems those stories demand.
Leadership
Inspired by Cheryl Reibel's book Resilience, Luba Evans—Harvard speaker, Master's graduate in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU, recipient of the Financial Executive Award, creator of multiple transformational frameworks, and leader of more than 350 in-person events across the world—is translating Cheryl's vision into the Never Alone app: a modern resilience system designed to ensure that no young person ever feels emotionally abandoned again.
Contact Us
Have questions? Need support? Want to get involved? We're here for you.
info@neveralone.org
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