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Oct 6, 2024, 5:55 PM

“Grandpa, how come You’re not older, like a hundred?” asked five-year-old Yehuda On New Year’s Day. Taken aback, I replied. “And how come you’re not twenty?” “Because I was only born just five years ago.” “And I was born seventy-five years ago.” “Oh, now I know,” he concluded. But now I’m...

Sep 25, 2024, 1:45 PM

The children of October 7

I will leave the statistics to others; we all know that tens of thousands of Israeli children have been impacted by the horrific events of October 7. A year later, what has become of them? I am a sole practitioner...

Sep 9, 2024, 11:11 PM

And a Time to Throw Sand

After all, we are promised To be like grains of sand, Even while we are threatened To become glass in nuclear fire. Was the Minister irked To get sand and not glass? Do the Ministers prefer that we Fear the glass and forget the sand? Is the...

Jul 17, 2024, 2:19 PM

An intolerable situation

Anybody remember October 7 or the prolonged war still raging? Apparently our governement does not. In the entire enlightened world, people know that CBD is an effective natural treatment for many things including anxiety. In the entire enlightened world CBD products...

Jun 18, 2024, 11:55 PM

Children of iron swords

Wartime is never friendly to healthy development. The past eight months of “Iron Swords” have had significant impact upon the children in Israel, impacts ranging from blatantly obvious to deeply concealed. It is the latter impact that I want...

Jun 9, 2024, 6:28 PM

Standing at Sinai- On One Leg

It took Hillel and that Cheeky outsider To reenact the scene. “The whole Torah While on one foot,” He demanded. “I’ve already tried Shammai, And went away broken.” Hillel recognized the scene. “The whole Torah Needs two feet, Two people, Your fellows. Your fellows are Your other foot. Direct yourself to them, (Not to me,...

May 14, 2024, 7:14 PM

Neither of us went to Independence Day celebrations. I know that no one asked, but I had a virus. Not the "Ahitofel" strain. As for our erstwhile PM. He was criticized for copping out, and his advisor won the "Ahitofel"...

May 13, 2024, 2:11 PM

(6th Grade) Class of ’24

DREAM ONE I awoke this morning from a long and detailed dream. Of course, the "day residue" that preceded the dream should be taken into account. I spent the evening in communal weeping at the words of our president, zooming...

Apr 14, 2024, 9:12 AM

Beer Sheba Three AM

Twixt missile and drone, Shelter door on its hinges; Shudder of the heart.

Apr 12, 2024, 5:48 PM

DAYENU ENOUGH 2024 We have lost Our capacity to say Enough. The long years When we had nothing, No land, no state, No security, no military, No economy, barely a cent; Yet each year We would sing together: Dayenu- It could suffice. But today… We have Restored our language And our land But have not said, Dayenu. We have Come together From...

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About Me

Alan Flashman was born in Foxborough, MA, and gained his BA from Columbia, MD from NYU, Pediatrics, Adult and Child Psychiatry specialties at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, The Bronx, NY. He has practiced in Beer Sheba since 1983, and taught mental health at Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University and Ben Gurion University. Alan has edited readers on Therapeutic Communication with Children (2002) and Adolescents (2005) in Hebrew, translated Buber's I and Thou anew into Hebrew, and authored Losing It, an autobiography, and From Protection to Passover. He recently published two summary works of his clinical experience (both 2022) Family Therapies for the 21st Century and Mental Health in Pediatrics.

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