Rabbis in Love: Personal Stories
Philip Alan Belove, M.A., Ed.D., is a public speaker, workshop leader and psychologist with M.A. from Alfred Adler Institute of Chicago, and Ed.D. from University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His focus is on how relationships work. His website is www.drbelove.com. As part of this focus he has explored and taught social dancing including swing and tango. He taught Communication between Men and Women at Keene State College for several years. He is a consulting psychologist with GBLA, a management consulting firm, and also maintains a private practice via internet and telephone. "Belov" is a common Russian name, like "Orlov" and "Chekov," and in Russian, it means "white." When the family arrived in America, the name was changed to "Belove," and thereby gained all those powerful connotations. Some people think the name on the website, Dr Belove, is a marketing ploy. Marilyn Bronstein graduated from Maimonides College in Winnipeg where she studied with Rabbi   a life-long fascination with Jewish studies.  She has been a professor at Champlain College for the last 27 years and has recently retired. Now she has time for her two passions: people’s stories and Judaism and how the two intersect. She composes Jewish chants and liturgy; she loves improvising in all of the creative arts: dance, singing, theatre, watercolors.  she animates community events exploring Judaism through the arts. For 25 years, she was one of the guiding forces of Havurat Har Kodesh, a renewal group that was constantly exploring how to make Judaism relevant to our lives today. This is her first book.