Behind the Lens: New York Jews between the Wars
Wednesday, January 21 | 6:30pm | Location: MCNY
Panel
Think you know Jewish New York? Drawing on the YIVO archives, including found footage of holiday balls, cartoons from the Forverts, immigrants’ autobiographies, and landsmanshaftn records, historians Eddy Portnoy (Rutgers, YIVO), Roberta Continue reading News and Notes from YIVO
Click Here to Read: Why the modern world is bad for your brain: In an era of email, text messages, Facebook and Twitter, we’re all required to do several things at once. But this constant multitasking is taking its toll. Here neuroscientist Daniel J Levitin explains how our addiction to technology is making us less efficient by Daniel J Levitin on the Guardian Website on January 18, 2015.
Daniel J Levitan: ‘When trying to concentrate on a task, an unread email in your inbox can reduce your effective IQ by 10 points.’
Dear Friends,
Please forgive me for this rather impersonal group letter, rather than a personal note to each one of you. Do know that given the time, I’d prefer otherwise!
That being said, it is truly amazing the tremendous number of phone calls, SMS, email messages, linkedin messages and facebook messages I have received since last Wednesday. How so very true is the Talmudic statement in Shevuot (39a) declaring, “Kol yisrael arevim zeh bazeh”, meaning ‘all of Israel are responsible for each other’. Continue reading Letter from Rabbin Tom Cohen of Paris
IPTAR’s The LJGould Center for Systems-Psychoanalytic Studies
Monthly Socio-Analytic Case Conference
Wednesday, January 28, 2015, 11:30am-1:00pm
IPTAR West Conference room: 140 West 97th Street – NYC
Kathleen Pogue White, Ph.D.
“The fear of fading :some thoughts from a psychoanalytic perspective on developing in the role of Elder with sophistication, grace and high organizational impact”
The role of elder is critical to the development, support and care of future through the Continue reading The fear of fading with Kathleen Pogue White at IPTAR
