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Kol Bogrei Rambam Is the Alumni Council’S Monthly E-Newsletter for and About Maimonides School Graduates Kol Bogrei April 2012 ~ Nisan-Iyyar 5772 Rambam Page 1 of 4 CONNECTING MAIMONIDES ALUMNI WORLDWIDE Kol Bogrei Rambam is the Alumni Council’s monthly e-newsletter for and about Maimonides School graduates. Each month we share infor- mation on individual graduates’ ventures and accomplishments, as well as general news notes, all reflecting the school’s mission of preparing educated, observant Jews to be contributing members of society. Your ideas and accomplishments will help sustain and strengthen this key communications tool; please forward to [email protected]. Recent Graduate Embarks on a Venture in Social Entrepreneurship Joseph Flesh ’04 is developing a comment on them, and flag outdated software product he calls Purple information.” Binder. As his website (purplebinder. As a Maimonides high school student, com) explains, “It will be the first Joe commented, “I thought I would comprehensive, up-to-date directory be a PhD in history and philosophy.” of Chicago’s social safety net. People But two years into the University of in need can use Purple Binder to help Chicago came “a realization of what I themselves. Social workers can use could really apply myself to over the it to give their clients better refer- longer term. Academia was not it for rals and waste less time hunting for me.” service providers. And doctors can use it to address the root causes of their Joe said the project was conceived a patients’ medical problems.” couple of years ago, when he and his college friend Declan Frye began doing This start-up effort is in the category software consulting, under the busi- of “social entrepreneurship,” Joe said. ness name Humanweb. “That definition is one of the reasons that we really like this. It’s not a pure “One of our first projects was for a non- profit motive that’s driving us. What profit to internally manage all the other we’re doing gives the whole thing agencies to which it referred clients,” a greater sense of purpose.” (He he recounted. “We realized there is no Joe Flesh ‘04 acknowledged that he is working central resource, no one place you look, on some useful features for social to find social services easily. And social to figure out the most useful project we workers, for which he plans to charge workers are spending a lot of time just can make. Meanwhile, we are getting “a low monthly fee.”) trying to keep their own information up exposure and feedback.” Social workers, to date. That’s a problem we thought we “Social workers will help keep Purple community leaders and government offi- could easily solve with software.” Binder up to date, sharing rather than cials are among those in the test market. duplicating one another’s efforts to Turns out it wasn’t so easy. “One reason The first version includes a comprehen- find fresh info about Chicago’s social is that information goes out of date so sive list of social services on Chicago’s services,” he said. “The app will also fast. It’s constantly shifting because of South Side, and the developers are make it easy for social workers to swap unstable funding from foundations,” Joe starting to gather data for the North Side. notes about specific service providers explained. and programs.” Some of the best feedback has come After several months, Purple Binder is through an online resource for journal- The projected result is an easy-to- running as a pilot program with social ists called chicagostories.org. Joe was navigate safety net that ranges from workers at a suburban Chicago hospital. recently listed as a technology entrepre- food, housing and health care to after- “We’re not sure yet what the product neur, along with his project and contact school programs and job training. is going to look like,” Joe acknowl- information. He is also working with “Purple Binder will be the only edged. “In some way we have launched Juan-Pablo Velez, a producer with the online directory that makes it easy because we have people using it, and Chicago News Cooperative. “I hope to be to add new agencies and services, over the next few months we’re going getting calls from reporters,” he said. Visit Maimonides on Facebook Follow our Twitter feed, KolRambam Kol Bogrei April 2012 ~ Nisan-Iyyar 5772 Rambam Page 2 of 4 CONNECTING MAIMONIDES ALUMNI WORLDWIDE Teaching Talmud, Practicing Psychology Complementary for Alumna in Israel Dr. Caroline Peyser-Bollag ’83 is a than ‘74, were born in Israel when Talmud teacher with a private practice my father was working at Weiz- in psychology. Or vice versa. In either mann Institute. I became close to a case, the two fields have been closely number of Israeli teachers as well associated in her experience for the as Israeli students who studied at past 20 years. A few examples: Maimonides.” • “During graduate school at After moving to Israel in 1994 Ferkauf (Yeshiva University’s grad- and earning her license in clinical uate school of psychology), while psychology, she worked as a staff studying clinical psychology, I psychologist on an eating disor- also taught beginner’s Talmud at ders unit at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Drisha Institute. This is something Hospital. I got from Maimonides—a back- Dr. Caroline Peyser-Bollag ’83, Rabbi David Bollag and “This was one of the first exposures ground and love for Gemara that their family. I had to treating eating disorders,” not many young women had at she said. “From there I went on to an the time.” recommends specific policy changes; outpatient adolescent clinic affiliated recommends resources; and provides • “On making aliyah, I contacted with Hadassah, where I also saw teens a guide to Jewish sources on health, some friends about jobs in with anorexia and bulimia as well as a diet and self-care—not as a replace- psychology. They suggested I full range of adolescent issues. At the ment for treatment, but in recognition teach Germara in the at Midreshet same time I was seeing the problem that a Jewish school must frame the Lindenbaum and then look for among some of my students at issue as part of a larger campaign of a job in psychology. And that’s Midreshet Lindenbaum and in schools Torah education.” what I did.” She remained on the in general -- and that many schools staff until her first daughter was struggled with how best to handle the “I was asked to give lectures on the born in 2003. situation.” topic in a variety of settings,” Caroline continued. “These lectures, in turn, led • Caroline teaches psychology In 2003 Caroline joined the staff of to referrals to my practice of one-year in a master’s program at Neve ATID (Academy for Torah Initiatives students suffering from eating disor- Yerushalayim College, offering and Directions) in Jerusalem, and ders, and thus my subspecialty in this courses and hands-on training to proposed a project for her research area developed.” religious women who would like group: How to handle eating disorders to become family therapists. among one-year students learning in “I think today, schools are much more Israeli yeshivot and seminaries. aware of the need for a close relation- “I certainly think my interest and ship with a mental health profes- choice of teaching Gemara grew out “We put out a booklet to help schools sional and are more sensitive to the of my experience at Maimonides, understand more about the nature psychological needs of students than and the fact that girls and boys were of eating disorders, the need for they were 10 years ago and certainly taught Gemara together from Grade immediate and specialized treatment 20 years ago,” she commented. “This 7,” she reflected. “I always felt that it and recommendations for treating is true for eating disorders as well was natural for girls as well as boys students away from home for the although there still is too long a lag to study Gemara, and I think that is year,” she said. time, often, in sending students early what led me to want to teach at a time Body and Soul: A Guide for Addressing enough for treatment before the situ- when few women taught Gemara.” Eating Disorders in a Jewish Education ation becomes serious enough for Caroline, who is a clinical psycholo- Setting is still available on line. The students to need to be sent home.” gist with a practice in Jerusalem, said commentary from ATID explains that Caroline, who still regularly gives she knew from an early age that she Body and Soul “spells out the basics shiurim, resides in Efrat with her would make aliyah. “I come from a of eating disorders and treatments in husband, Rabbi David Bollag. She very Zionist family. My oldest sister laymen’s terms; reviews current and has three children and two grown and brother, Daniella ’74 and Jona- notable school programs and policies; step-children. Kol Bogrei April 2012 ~ Nisan-Iyyar 5772 Rambam Page 3 of 4 CONNECTING MAIMONIDES ALUMNI WORLDWIDE After Memorable Interfaith Trip, Rabbi Lopatin ’82 Hopes to Get Some Answers Several weeks have passed since Rabbi talked about maintenance issues, Asher Lopatin ’82 returned from a security issues, issues that Israel six-day interfaith mission to Jakarta, can change on without it hitting Dubai, Amman, Ramallah and Jeru- the newspapers in Israel. He didn’t salem. “I am still on an emotional high,” even mention Jerusalem. He he said. “It’s like going to camp, and didn’t obsess about settlements.” then suddenly being done with camp.” Now Rabbi Lopatin hopes that But he was quick to add, “I’m really connection will help him learn trying to temper that with reality.” And more about the content of the he is narrowing that focus down to textbooks, which many observers one specific problem: the content of say ensure antipathy toward student textbooks used by the Pales- Israel among schoolchildren by tinian National Authority.
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