Alan Flashman

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Mar 9, 2025, 1:07 PM

‘Abuse’ of newborn babies!

It has just come to my attention that non-citizen mothers who choose home birthing can no longer receive a birth certificate from the Ministry of Interior. Their only option to receive a birth certificate is to bring their newborns...

Feb 5, 2025, 9:18 PM

Real Estate vs Real People

I suppose Ferdinand and Isabella are laughing in their graves. Jews "relocated" - so what? There is even a hilarious (tragicomic in context) feullitone written in Poland in the 1920s about Pharaoh arising from his grave and wondering whatever...

Feb 2, 2025, 1:25 PM

Hostages return while survivors are hassled

Anyone want to go though an October 7th experience? Here's how the State of Israel will treat you. You were recognized as a survivor of terror and given automatic disability for PTSD for a year. A YEAR? A reminder that the...

Dec 18, 2024, 10:39 PM

Children of Sderot

I am worried for the future of the children of Sderot (and Ofakim and the entire Otef) For the past two months I have been trying to assist families in Sderot to apply for continued disability for their children with...

Oct 25, 2024, 12:19 AM

In Memoriam: Paul Mendes-Flohr

Paul will be buried today (Friday, October 25), in Jerusalem, the city that he loved, that he chose for his residence and teaching, and that was uplifted by his presence. I will leave to better informed colleagues the listing of...

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...

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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 and a short novel in Hebrew "NO WAY!" about the abuses of "parental alienation" in Israel.

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