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Monthly Archives: May 2010
What Makes For A Good Therapist?
I’ve had therapists come into my life and I’ve had them go out of my life. Looking back, I think my every therapist has been excellent. Here’s what I’ve appreciated in them: * They’ve made it easy to connect with … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Psychology
Tagged gentle soul, glint, good relationship, pretenses, tardiness, waiting room
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Where Have Our Manners Gone?
I’m appalled as I walk down Pico Blvd beside Glatt Matt and its dirty competitor at how many Jews park in traffic and run in to the store to get something, oblivious to the cars piling up behind them. I … Continue reading
Posted in Jews
Tagged cold hand, hand of truth, jewish press, pico blvd, shopping bags, young wives
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Video Of My Panel Discusson On ‘Christians, Jews and the Sabbath after the Holocaust’
I make my first comments 30 minutes in. My voice has quite the nervous tremor and my hands play with my water bottle. I was hoping I’d appear smoother and calmer and cooler.
Posted in Adventist, Jews, Loma Linda, Personal
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Bariatric Surgery
Psycho-therapist Donna Burstyn writes: In a rush to get things done, in a rush to get things beautiful, in a rush to get things thin, in a city where most people know it as a laid-back non-judgmental place, Los Angeles … Continue reading
Posted in Donna Burstyn
Tagged anxiety attacks, depression anxiety, experience depression, gastro bypass surgery, lapband, psycho therapist
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Whatever Happened To Deportment Among Conservative Rabbis?
Last week I wondered why the head of American Jewish University’s rabbinics program publishes photos of himself in jeans and a tye-dye t-shirt. Can you imagine Saul Lieberman doing that? I also wonder the Ziegler School of Rabbinics is run … Continue reading
Posted in AJU, Beth Am, Conservative Judaism, R. Adam Kligfeld
Tagged chewing gum, hunger in the world, rabbi adam, saul lieberman, tye dye, ziegler school
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