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DIANA LIEBERMAN
Special to the Jewish News

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ever let it be said that metro
Detroit's Jewish writers are afraid
to tackle the big issues.
More than a dozen newly published
books chosen for the Jewish Book Fair's
Local Author Fair examine issues of
therapy, morality, decision-making and
high school basketball. The authors will
be at the Jewish Community Center's
Handleman Hall in West Bloomfield 11
a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 7, to answer
questions, sign books or just schmooze.
Here are a few of this year's selections:

Does This Line Ever Move?• Everyday
Applications of Operations Research, by
Kenneth Chelst and Thomas Edwards
(Key Curriculum Press; $26.95)
"I took four years of math in high
school, and I've never used a single thing
I learned."
Sound familiar? Well, it turns out
there are real-life reasons to determine
the value of "x," and, in this book,
Wayne State University faculty members
Kenneth Chelst and Thomas Edwards
tell us some of them.
The book is divided into sections, or
modules, showing how a specific type of
math-based operations research can be
used every day: to calculate the shortest
route for a delivery truck, to compare
the pros and cons of auto insurance, to
decide which college to attend.
Each module can be easily photo-
copied for student use, said Chelst, a
Southfield resident who, in addition to
teaching at WSU, is also a consultant for
Ford Motor Co.

The Rivalry, by Philip Wohl
(PublishAmerica; $19.55)
A Long Island high school, circa
1969, is the setting for Philip Wohl's
first published work, a novel/memoir

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based on his early years in East Meadow,
Long Island.
The hero of The Rivalry decides he
will lead the West Valley Rockets to an
unprecedented win against the team's
longtime rival, the Fellingwood Rams.
As he gains confidence on the basketball
court, he grows socially and academical-
ly as well.
The novel is aimed at readers of mid-
dle- and high-school age, Wohl said, but
adults will find bittersweet memories in
its pages.
Wohl moved to Farmington Hills last
year with his wife and two children,
after working nearly 20 years on Wall
Street. His wife, Danielle Kuffler, is a
Michigan native.

Sharing The Journey: A Psychotherapist
Reflects On Her Work, by Judith Goren
(iUniverse; $14.95)
After 25 years in private practice,
Judith Goren of Beverly Hills, Mich.,
has compiled a selection of short essays
that take away some of the mystery from
her profession.
"My book describes the process of
psychotherapy in a way that offers safety
and comfort to the client while provid-
ing useful information to new practi-
tioners," said Goren, who has previously
published three books of poetry.
Sharing The Journey provides concrete
advice for therapists, including when to
accept telephone calls and when to let
the machine answer, what to do when
you get sleepy, what to think about
before you answer the phone.
A graduate of Cass Tech, Goren stud-
ied at Wayne State University and
earned her Ph.D. from the Merrill-
Palmer Institute, now the Center for
Humanistic Studies.

Biblical Stories for Psychotherapy and
Counseling: A Sourcebook, by Kalman
Kaplan and Matthew Schwartz
(Haworth Press; $39.95)
Matthew Schwartz has no doubts that
Sigmund Freud was a brilliant man.
"However, the psychiatric model he
created draws heavily from Greek cul-
ture, a culture that is essentially pes-
simistic," said Schwartz, a Wayne State
University professor with a Ph.D. in

ancient history.
The message of Greek literature is that
"you can't go that far, because the world
— the fates — won't let you."
Jewish literature, starting with the
Bible itself, gives a more positive mes-
sage. "It doesn't say everything is perfect
but that we are all capable of making
our own decisions, of changing the
direction of our lives."
Schwartz has been working for 20
years with fellow Wayne State University
professor Kalman Kaplan. Kalman,
whose Ph.D. is in psychology, is also
clinical professor of psychology in the
Department of Psychiatry at the
University of Illinois at Chicago College
of Medicine. Their first book was

Psychology of Hope: An Antidote to the
Suicidal Pathology of Western Civilization.

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Other local writers who will partici-
pate in the Local Author Fair include Ed
Chalom of Beverly Hills, The Heart Is a
Funny Reservoir, Irwin Cohen of Oak
Park, Comiskey Park; Carol Dunitz of
Ann Arbor, Louder Than Thunder: A
Contemporary Business Parable; Randall
Fogelman of Detroit, Images of America:
Detroit's New Center, Dr. Michael Gellis
of Bloomfield Hills, A Practical Guide of

Jewish Practices From Dying Through
Shivah; Brian Golden of Farmington,
Farmington: A Pictorial History
Photograph Collection; Rabbi Irwin
Groner of Congregation Shaarey Zedek,
Renewing Jewish Faith; Chad Halcom of
Madison Heights, The Calling (a comic
book series); Albert Lewis of Grand
Rapids, The Lord Is My Shepherd; Rabbi
Dovid Poker of Oak Park, Chassidic Soul
Remedies; Karen Shulman of Sylvania,
Ohio, I Never Meant to be Funny;
Howard Silver of Franklin, Fairy Tales for
the Young at Heart-, and Carol Weisfeld
of Detroit, Early Jewish Days in
Michigan: Coloring and Activi t y Book.0

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