Author: Harold

Many years ago, a woman walked into my office and asked me to help her with her back pain. I examined her and then, based on the exam, treated her using osteopathic manipulation. She came a few times and then disappeared. When this happens I wonder what happened. Did they…

Not too long ago I began treating a new patient. He is a 50 year old man who developed spastic cerebral palsy when he was 3 years old. When I first saw him enter the office I thought to myself, What can I do for this man? He is unable…

The Hebrew pilot course has just finished. It was a major success with the ten students reporting amazing results in learning to speak modern Israeli Hebrew in less than three hours. Not only is this unprecedented but considering that they didn’t do any review, memorization, had any testing, and experienced…

It has finally happened! After so many years of thinking, planning, wishing I made the first part of my Hebrew course a reality. This is the pilot or beta stage of what will later be released as a much longer beginner Hebrew course. That course will probably run around 7-8…

I am an osteopathic physician and surgeon who has seen thousands of people in the last 30 years. One day, many years ago, I had a dance teacher come to me as a patient. She happened to mention that for many years she had debilitating low back pain.  “Do you…

Dear friends After a hiatus of two years, at least, I decided to post something here. A few years ago a reader chided me for not posting on a regular basis. He was right, of course, if I wanted to build a large audience. When people come to me as…

When I was growing up I heard Yiddish everywhere. It was in the air, in the water and especially in the food. I grew up in New York City. My first few years were in Mid-town Manhattan but my earliest memories come from the Bronx where my family lived in…

Today I wrote a review on a book, Judaism and homosexuality: an authentic orthodox approach. My review, which I had thought quite a lot about before posting ( I have thought about this matter for the last 48+ years of my life) was accepted on Amazon.com. However, Amazon. uk rejected…