The Truth About Bullies

Linda Marten, MSW social worker, mother of two children, a credentialed parent education teacher and teacher advisor for Los Angeles Unified School District for 15 years. In 2011, she started her own private practice "Get Help Parenting," leading parenting workshops for parents of teenagers.  In 2010, she learned the Bullies to Buddies approach from Izzy Kalman. He trained and certified her as a B...

Sarah Macintyre is a friend of Lola's and runs an afterschool program at her house in the Tel Aviv area. In episode 43 she consults with Izzy about a first grader who has become a chronic victim of exclusion by the other girls. 

Jasmine is a Generation Y-er who is fascinated by bullying, having faced it in her own youth. She has been corresponding with Izzy for the past few years, and makes an interesting interviewee, as she embodies the philosophy the anti-bullying movement has been espousing for the past 25 years. The links to the videos which Jasmine shared for our commentary are below: https://www.instagram.com/reel/D...

Kaylee Frager is a Jewish studies teacher in the Northeast, with over 40 years of experience. She is also a long-time friend of Izzy Kalman.

Laura's website: bosswhispering.com -not cut out for the nuts-and-bolts of medical education, she got a degree instead in clinical social work -Joined the first Assistant Employee Program in Alaska -A near-workplace murder leads to Laura's interest in workplace bullying -Founded the Boss Whispering Institute in 1994 -abrasive bosses are not aware of the damage they're doing -guiding bosses to see...

Frederick T. Golder has taught conflict resolution and has served as a mediator and arbitrator for more than thirty years, successfully resolving conflicts. Based in Massachusets, he devotes his time to thinking and writing about positive solutions to today's problems. -Massachusets anti-bullying law after Columbine sparked his interest in bullying -The difference between physical and verbal bully...

Dr. Jim C Weller's full dissertation can be downloaded free of charge at:  https://digitalcommons. andrews.edu/dissertations/ 1535/   For a 19-page executive summary, contact "Dr. Jim" directly at  jim@aiias.edu .   For more information on Laura Crawshaw's method of confronting and transforming abrasive bosses, find her book:  Grow Your Spine & Manage Abrasive Leadership Behavior: A Guide For Thos...

-Should a woman give her all to motherhood? -How Izzy's influence may have made his daughter a reckless mom -A little escapism: the Israel-Hamas war -Israel can't win through force because as soon as it appears dominant, its support from the world ebbs -If the world were rational they'd be pressuring Hamas to give up -Obama and the Infidel Meme -We shouldn't be trying to destroy the Muslim fundame...

-Is Simon Klebanor a Jew? He certainly prefers to be  -Simon's niche: helping young people wake up from sleep walking through life -Ted Kennedy let Natalie Wood asphyxiate in a car under water after driving off a bridge -Catastrophic car accident led him to change course in life -In waking up out of his coma he realizes what distinguishes between people and animals is the ability to operate by cho...

This episode is an interview conducted in Hebrew with Ali Kashkush, an arab israli who is an officer in the IDF, a physics Teacher and educator in Israel. Ali is a Social activist and advocate, and a member of the Zionist security movement. If you're curious but don't speak hebrew, I will soon be posting links here to video excerpts from the video with English subtitles.    

Tsvi Misinai is the pioneer of Israel high tech and an historian with encyclopedic memory who has researched tirelessly the roots of the Palestinian people in the tribes of Israel. he believes that the deadly rifts between Jews and Muslims in the middle east, and perhaps more importantly, the rifts within Israeli society itself, can be healed by a correct understanding of our history and faith. Th...

Yinon Dan Kehati is an Israeli activist who founded the organization "The Home." He seeks to  bridge the Arab and Jewish people of Judea and Samaria not through compromises over land, but by speaking the common language of faith, asserting our religious right to sovereignty in the Land of Israel, and extending a hand to the Arabs who seek to tie their fate with us. The Interview is conducted in He...

Description: -Reality trumps Fauda big time -The irony of liberals supporting Hamas -Conversation with Arab couple who said 80% of Israeli Arabs support Hamas -Israeli Arab soldier in the IDF who fights for Israel -What, in fact, is apartheid? -Why the canton (clan government, headed by local elder) system won't work today for Arab municipalities -Could the Minute of Silence help restore respect f...

Our 2nd conversation about the war, 12 days in.  Description: -Experiencing sirens and rockets with young children -The miracle of Iron Dome -Izzy vists Arab friend in Gaza in the 80s, no fear -The myth that Jewish settlers get away with illegal construction in the territories -The bravery and risk-taking of Arabs who side with Israel -The legacy of the "Eternal Jew" in the public consciousness -W...

An urgent talk about the war we find ourselves in, explaining what's really going on.

Momentofsilence.info Email Avraham Frank at:  AFSilence@gmail.com   Click  here for Izzy's Psychology Today blog post about A Minute of Silence Click here to learn about the Seven Noahide Laws -Avraham Frank meets Izzy Kalman at a seminar in NYC -Working for the city in foster care, welfare, unemployment and more -The Lubavitcher rebbe urged Jews not to "disregard" gentiles but rather to influence...

Link to Evelyn's book, Harry the Bully Blocker https://www.bullying.com.au/harrythebullyblocker/ -School counselor for 50 years -Mt. Scopus Jewish school in the family for generations -When her daughters finished at the school she left too, and wrote "Bully Busting" and two books on workplace bullying -Addressing the lack of practical guidance a school counselor gets on how to deal with cases of b...

Dr. Sussman's website: https://www.sussmankids.com/ Description:  -Licensed psychologist for over 4 decades, private practice in NJ and NY -Early on in career worked in a violent adolescent center, where staff faced physical assault; gave him perspective on what's considered challenging in psychology -Therapy in group settings, with parents present -Accountability- not consequences, and incentives...

עמוד הפייסבוק של מיכל:  https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100054259610448&locale=he_IL לסרטון שיטת איזי לבריונות, שעזר לבת של מיכל: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOReCVHEstCE42CxPfZRRGfgyJzYJ4gMW תוכן הראיון:  -מאמנת אסטרטגיות למידה תלמידה לא מוצלחת ביסודי, גילתה ספר על שיטות שינון בשירותים- -ילדים לומדים הכי טוב דרך הרגש -פרוטקציה לגרום לכתבה להתפרסם בעיתון ישראלי . -בנה מותקף על ידי ב...

-50 reasons for lack of concentration and only one is neurological -Uncovered stories of bullying in many of her cases, felt unequipped to help -Has bullying always existed in the orthodox Jewish community, or is it a by-product of modern stressors? -Perhaps the difference between then and now is that this generation is made up of "marshmallows" -Izzy's favorite technique: answering with the oppos...

-Anna Maria browses 300 bullying programs to try to help her daughter who was attacked in the bathroom -Guatemala, 1982: The army deposes the president; Anna Maria has a tank pointed at her building; parents send her and her siblings away, but stay at home to safeguard the house. -Anna Maria has her patients guess why she was bullied- not the partial paralysis of her face, but rather, big ears -Th...

To get an idea of the plagiarism spoken of, view this video. -Izzy feels nauseous after the interview because Brooks appears as the better man -Did Brooks really sell honey on the side of the road? Or is it another story to please the listener? -Izzy is not requesting to be credited in speeches, just in Brooks' written materials -Is mass media blurring the line between plagiarism and more innocuou...

Click here for video evidence of the plagiarism.   - Milk and Honey -Steve Sussman got Izzy doing seminars around the country, how he met Brooks -Brooks succeeded on bringing the approach to the whole world -Brooks' humble beginnings on a sheep farm in Franklin, Tennessee, selling honey -Viral success of Golden Rule Game -Izzy quiets down, grows distant -Brooks considers Izzy's insistence on being...

Click here to view video evidence of the plagiarism. This was an interview Lola conducted with Izzy approximately one year before the podcast was created, with the intention of allowing Izzy to create a record of his experience being plagiarized by his student. It was aired as a prelude to the interview Brooks Gibbs conducted with them after discovering the podcast.

Check out Ron Shuali at BreakingTheBullyingCircle.com and RonSpeak.com -Enters naval academy at age 12, first experience being bullied and denied the option of defending himself -Learns to forgive and drop out at a Landmark seminar -Presenting to kids, developing strategy for those who complain of being punished for defending selves -Mental self defense tactics: "and?" and "the Power Look" -Izzy's...