Uncategorized

LGBTQ+Dr. Abi WeissmaneducationtranstransgenderJewish Written By Abigail Weissman   Pride In most of the world, LGBTQ+ Pride occurs in June. San Diego, however, currently hosts its LGBTQI+ Pride in July. According to San Diego’s Pride organization https://sdpride.org/pride-july/ ), in July 1990, June Pride was pretty much rained out so they decided to switch Pride to July […]

Steven J. Stein Welcome to Issue 9 of Schmooze, newsletter of the Association of Jewish Psychologists. A number of us were at the APA Convention in Denver and AJP hosted two events, both described in this newsletter. First was our breakfast meeting at the Gold Meir House Museum and the second was the Shabbat candle

By Chair, Esti (Ester) Cole, Ph.D. The Education Committee activities and consultative undertakings are governed by AJP’s Mission Statement. The committee, which meets twice a month, has a broad mandate that focuses on current evidence-based projects embedded with a Jewish lens in primary, secondary, and tertiary programs on a continuum. The committee membership represents scientist-practitioners,

Editor’s notes: Steven J. Stein Welcome to the eighth edition of the AJP Schmooze newsletter. This edition of Schmooze features a number of articles of interest for our members. In the last issue, I mentioned the Refuat HaNefesh Psychologists’ Trauma Mission to Israel. This immersive and deeply meaningful journey was lovingly envisioned and carefully crafted by Ilene

Today is Yom HaShoah, literally the Day of the Catastrophe. One of the meanings of Holocaust is a burnt offering – as such, many Jews prefer the word Shoah, as we are not someone’s burnt offering. This is a day of remembrance, and it occurs on the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. The question

My story about experiencing antisemitism at my university after October 7 cannot be dealt with by launching a lawsuit, or by the typical advice given by authorities regarding what to do about such instances. I cannot complain that I have been discriminated against due to any of the grounds that are covered by provincial law.

March 9th – 16th The Association of Jewish Psychologists (AJP) has been, for several months, planning a Mission Trip to Israel, that would be focused on the treatment of trauma and the generation of resiliency. Lenore Walker, a co-founder of AJP along with Beth Rom-Rymer, was selected as a Voice of the People (VOP) Council

Steven Stein Welcome to another edition of Schmooze. Having just returned from an amazing mission to Israel for psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers I’m gradually getting back into the swing of things. The mission, co-ordinated by the Jewish Federations of Canada was the dream child of three psychologists, Dr. Yifaht Korman, Dr. Cathy Kerzner, and