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  1. drruth .com. Karola Ruth Westheimer ( née Siegel; born June 4, 1928), better known as Dr. Ruth, is a German-American sex therapist, talk show host, author, professor, and Holocaust survivor . Westheimer was born in Germany to a Jewish family. As the Nazis came to power, her parents sent the ten-year-old girl to a school in Switzerland for ...

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  2. A one-woman play based on Westheimer’s life, Becoming Dr. Ruth, by Mark St. Germain, debuted in 2012 and moved to Off-Broadway. A documentary film, Ask Dr. Ruth, directed by Ryan White, was released in 2019. She lectured widely and held fellowships at Yale, Princeton, and the New York Academy of Medicine.

    • Who Is Dr. Ruth Westheimer?
    • Early Life
    • Move to America
    • Sex Education Talk Show
    • Lasting Career

    In 1939, Ruth Westheimer was sent to Switzerland to escape the Nazis. Moving to New York in 1956, she worked for Planned Parenthood. A lecture she delivered in 1980 led to a radio talk show called Sexually Speaking. The show was a hit and Westheimer became a nationally recognized authority on sexual matters. Dr. Ruth has written numerous books and ...

    Karola Ruth Siegel was born on June 4, 1928, in Frankfurt, Germany. She grew up the only child in a privileged Orthodox Jewish family; her father, Julius Siegel, was a prosperous notions wholesaler. Her mother, Irma Siegel (nee Hanauer) was a cattle rancher’s daughter. A curious and inquisitive child, Ruth often crept into her father’s library and ...

    Because of her tiny four-foot-seven-inch frame, Ruth frequently worried that she would never marry, lamenting in her diary, “Nobody is going to want me because I’m short and ugly.” However, in 1950, an Israeli soldier from her kibbutz proposed marriage and she accepted immediately. The two moved to Paris, where Ruth studied psychology at the Sorbon...

    In the late 1960s, Ruth took a job at Planned Parenthood in Harlem, New York City and was somewhat alarmed to find herself participating in frank discussions about sex. However, she soon became comfortable and in 1967 was appointed project director. She simultaneously worked towards her doctorate degree in family and sex counseling through Columbia...

    From that point on, Dr. Ruth’s career skyrocketed. However, the fans who adored her frank and non-judgmental approach to their sexual queries were equally matched by conservative critics who found her advocacy of contraception and sexual openness threatening and irresponsible. She always took criticism into account but nevertheless insisted that sh...

  3. May 3, 2019. At nearly 91, Dr. Ruth is still committed to the cause Getty Images/Rachel Murray/Stringer. When Dr. Ruth Westheimer first hit the airwaves in in the early 1980s, she was a woman on a ...

  4. Nov 9, 2023 · Now She Wants to Cure Loneliness. Taking the lessons of pandemic isolation — and her adolescent diary — Dr. Ruth Westheimer, 95, decided she should be New York’s Loneliness Ambassador. And ...

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  6. May 4, 2019 · SIMON: Dr. Ruth Westheimer - she's the subject of "Ask Dr. Ruth," a new documentary on Hulu on the occasion of her 90th - soon to be 91st - birthday. Thanks so much for being with us.

  7. May 5, 2019 · At age 90, Dr. Ruth is opening up. An upcoming documentary on Hulu, Ask Dr. Ruth, profiles Westheimer's life and journey, revealing a side of her life that even her own children never fully ...

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