Germany’s largest synagogue reopens

synagogue.jpgI thought this article from the Guardian would be of particular interest to those who were in Berlin for the IPA Congress and went on the tour of Jewish Berlin which included a visit to the Synagogue before restoration:

Germany’s largest synagogue, an architectural and historical landmark in the centre of Berlin, will reopen today after extensive restoration work.

The red-brick Rykestrasse synagogue is to be reopened in the presence of former members who were forced to flee Nazi Germany. It was set on fire on Kristallnacht on November 9 1938, when synagogues and Jewish businesses were attacked and destroyed on Nazi orders…
Click here to read the article. Click here to see accompanying photos.

Art, Psychoanalysis, and Society Project: Film (Undzere Kinder)

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INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYTIC TRAINING AND RESEARCH
 Art, Psychoanalysis, and Society Project
Co- sponsored by the Center for Jewish History and YIVO

Space is limited   Reservations required
Box office:  917 606-8200
Date: November 4, 2007                      
Time: 2 –5 PM

Location:  Center for Jewish History
                  15  West 16th  St.
                  New York City
Sunday 4, 2-5pm

Childhood Trauma In Film: Undzere Kinder (Our Children) Film and Workshop:  This last Yiddish-language film made in Poland features famous Yiddish comedians Szimon Dzigan and Yisroel Szumacher and a cast of Jewish orphans, survivors of the Holocaust. The film will be used as the basis of a workshop on psychological trauma and its representation in film. Introduced and moderated by Dr. Maurice Preter and Dr. Isaac Tylim with the participation of Dr. Harold J. Bursztajn, Harvard Medical School; Professor Shimon Redlich, Ben-Gurion University; Marek Web, YIVO Historian; Dr. Eva Weil, Paris Psychoanalytic Society; Dr. Eva Kantor, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, NYC.

Click Here to Read: More About the Movie Undzere Kinder.  

Click here to Read: More about Dr. Maurice Preter.

Click here to Read: More about the showing of film sponsored by Instititute for Psychoanlaytic Training and Research, Center for Jewish History, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.    

Sheldon Bach consulting on October 4 at ICP

Sheldon Bach, Ph.D. will be consulting on October 4 (NOT the 1st as previously listed!) at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy’s Master Clinician Series.  This will be the 1st of 4 evenings (8-10pm) during which a renowned psychoanalyst will discuss a case presented by an I.C.P. staff member.  Dr. Bach is Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychhohlogy at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and the New York Freudian Society.  Continue reading Sheldon Bach consulting on October 4 at ICP

Reconsidering Men and Msculinities with Michael Diamond, Donald Moss and Sidney Phillips at CSPP

NOVEMBER 22, 2014
8:30am – 1:00pm
The New Haven Lawn Club, New Haven, Ct.

RECONSIDERING MEN AND MASCULINITIES DEVELOPMENTAL CONUNDRUMS AND CLINICAL QUANDARIES
with: MICHAEL J. DIAMOND, PH.D. DONALD MOSS, M.D. SIDNEY PHILLIPS, M.D.

REGISTER ONLINE AT
www.cspponline.org
or
Click Here to download Registration Form Continue reading Reconsidering Men and Msculinities with Michael Diamond, Donald Moss and Sidney Phillips at CSPP

Benefit Concert for Peruvian Earthquake Relief

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You are cordially invited to a benefit concert by renowned Peruvian classical guitarist Jorge Caballero at St. Bartholomew’s Church (Park Avenue at 51st Street, New York) at
8 p.m., on Friday, September 14, 2007

Mr. Caballero, who has been called a “superb young guitarist” by The New York Times, is the only guitarist to win the Naumburg Competition. Proceeds go to Doctors Without Borders earthquake relief. For tickets, please call 212-378-0248.
$100 preferred seating -$50 general admission – $35 students/seniors