Better Living Through Introspection

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Dr. Ruth, Sniper

December 19th, 2006

Dr. Ruth Westheimer (yes, of sex therapy fame) used to be a sniper.

Westheimer herself is no stranger to combat. As a teenager in Palestine, she trained as a sniper with the Jewish underground group Haganah and was wounded during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

“I can still put five bullets in a tight circle if a journalist writes bad things about me,” she said.

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