The Friends We Keep: A Hearing Men’s Voices Program By Paul Davidson, PhD Introductory Comments Today we’re talking about friendship, something that becomes more important as we age, yet often harder to maintain. For many men, friendships begin naturally in childhood. You lived near each other, played on the same team, worked together, or simply …
The Power of Friendships Across the LifespanBy Paul Davidson, PhDCo-chair of FJMC Health and Wellness Committee While childhood is often characterized by a significant focus on friendships involving play, sports, laughter and emotional sharing, research suggests that male friendships often undergo a winnowing process as men age. This phenomenon, often referred to in psychology as …
HEALING THE WHOLE PERSON: Spiritual Conversations in Health Care. by Steven Mandel MD Why should we care about spirituality in medicine? Patients who draw comfort from spiritual beliefs report better quality of life, and less psychological distress, even in advanced cancer or serious illness. Spirituality shapes how we interpret illness, suffering, and prognosis. It supports …
Shulpan Hessed by Mollyann Does your synagogue have a Hessed – – חסדcommittee, one which reaches out to those who are ill or in mourning. It is so named because hessed (a difficult word to translate into English. You may see it as love, kindness, or lovingkindness, or even faithful (loving of).) is one of …
All We Need is Loveby David Kaplan I was the youngest guy in my high school class. I never felt that I fit in with any particular crowd in high school, yet I never felt excluded by anyone. I was peripheral. I stayed at the edge. I was never 100% immersed. It wasn’t until decades …
Do you use Waze to find your way from one place to another? You can thank 3 Israelis who developed it in 2008 to offer real-time traffic updates for drivers in Israel to avoid congestion, accidents and other activity that results in slow-downs or detours. At the time, Uri Levin, Ehud Shabtai, and Amir Shinar …
Rabbi Noam Raucher, MA.Ed — Executive Director, FJMC International The Torah’s account of Sinai is not gentle. Neither is my account of growing into manhood. Much like our ancestors’ experience receiving the Torah eons ago, my experience receiving the Torah contained in masculinity was filled with confusion, awe, fear, trembling and pressure. That’s not to …
Rabbi Noam Raucher, MA.Ed — Executive Director, FJMC International The Book of Numbers begins, unsurprisingly, by counting. At the opening of Bamidbar (lit. In the wilderness), God tells Moses to take a census of the Israelites: tribe by tribe, household by household, name by name. It is easy to read the moment as administrative. A nation in …
Felix Mendelssohn (February 3, 1809 – November 4, 1847) was born to Jewish parents in Hamburg, Germany, but as a child he was converted to Christianity, along with his siblings and his parents, as was somewhat popular in the area during the early 19th century as a way to emancipate from the Jewish ghetto …
Rabbi Noam Raucher, MA.Ed — Executive Director, FJMC International Men are often taught to treat money as proof of manhood. Not just as a practical necessity. As evidence. Evidence that you are competent, desirable, serious, protective, respectable. Evidence that you can provide, recover, endure. Evidence that your life is moving forward. And if that evidence …
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