Japan’s Rent-a-Family Industry

Click Here to Read: Japan’s Rent-a-Family Industry: People who are short Jon relatives can hire a husband, a mother, a grandson. The resulting relationships can be more real than you’d expect By Elif Batuman in The New Yorker in the April 30, 2018 Issue.

Day before her wedding, Hideko Hosokawa (lower right with white head scarf) and her siblings prepare her belongings to her bridegrooms house.
This photograph was originally taken by Ito Monakadaneten Inc. (伊藤最中種店), a private grocery firm in Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan. And the photo was currently owned by Mr. Yasuhiko Ito, who is Hideko’s son. Mr. Ito has asked that use of this photograph to “preserve the integrity”, i.e, that it not be used in any defamatory ways.〔This note was added by トトト upon the request of Mr. Ito.〕 21 November 1957 Source 細川家集合写真3 Photo by Yasuhiko Ito from Sendai, Japan.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Program Accepting Applications

The Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Program will begin a new three-year training cycle in September 2018. Below is a description of the program. If you are interested in applying or would like more information, contact Sally Moskowitz at sallymoskowitz@gmail.com or Rita Reiswig at rreiswig@me.com. The deadline for applications is June 15, 2018.

THE ANNI BERGMAN PARENT-INFANT PROGRAM

The ANNI BERGMAN PARENT-INFANT PROGRAM began in 1997 and is affiliated with both The Contemporary Freudian Society and the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. The program is unique in offering intensive training in parent-infant treatment to psychoanalysts, advanced psychoanalytic candidates, and to professionals with expertise working with infants and toddlers.

The three-year training program includes one year of infant observation, one year of study of the psychoanalytic literature on infancy and relevant infant research, and one year of the application of this knowledge to supervised clinical work with infants and their parents.. The program is held weekly on Tuesdays from 12-2:30 at 30 West 86th Street and runs from mid-September through the end of May.

Year One: Infant Observation Continue reading Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Program Accepting Applications

Israeli Independence Day April 17-18, 2018

Click Here to Read: Israel’s Success Has Surprised Everyone by Daniel Gordis on the Mosaic website on April 20. 2018.

Click Here to Read: How Harry Truman Crossed His Own State Department to Recognize Israel in 1948 Eraim Karsh on the Mosaic website on April 16 2018.

Click Here to Read: Israel proves exceptional, once again by Evelyn Gordon on her website on April 14, 2018.

Click Here to Read: The famous city of Achashverosh revealed. Ruins of ancient Susa (Shushan), Persia By Prof. Lawrence H. Schiffman in AMI magazine February 21, 2018 // 6 ADAR 5778.

Flaglettes and banner of the Flag of Israel decorate a house during Israel’s Independence Day, 2007 by MathKnight. Public Domain via Wikmeida Commons