WHEN DIFFICULT RELATIVES
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Who Doesn't Have Difficult Relatives?

SURVIVING YOUR FAMILY
AND KEEPING YOUR SANITY

Leonard Felder, PH.D.

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them and sharing a
message he had posted
on www.campusj.com , a
Jewish campus affairs
Web site.
"This was an amazing
day at the University of
Michigan, and for the
time being, I can't fore-
see any experience top-
ping it in the near
future," he wrote. "I
woke up this morning
feeling safer and more
optimistic about the fate
of the Jewish people
locally and in Israel."

Join Dr. Leonard Felder as he discusses his latest
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People, providing specific, easy-to-follow advice with
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your most toxic relatives - proving that even if you
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Perry Teicher, a sophomore from
West Bloomfield, is a Hillel activist
who serves on the MSA and is run-
ning for re-election. He had similar
feelings, saying he was ecstatic when
the resolution lost by such a large
margin. "My faith in people, ration-
ality and acceptable norms of human
behavior stayed in place," he said.
"While I absolutely disagree with
the motion that was brought up," he
said, "I think it is great to see that
student activism is not dead."
"Nov,- if only those who insist on
vilifying Israel and looking at the
conflict from one side are willing to
divest themselves from that view and
instead are ready to work towards a
dialogue of understanding, are ready
to take advantage of the university as
a place of discussion, of exploration,
instead of as a dead-end path to hate,
then I think we as a university com-
munity will be making progress,"
said Teicher, echoing a sentiment of
many of the pro-Israel students.
He added, "I have heard that some
students from all sides —
Palestinians, Israelis and Americans
— are looking to start talking with
each other instead of simply attack-
ing each other."
But Teicher's less-hopeful predic-
tion that the divestment resolution
would be brought up again, "albeit
under a different mask," already
seemed to be coming true. The day
after the vote, as the MSA president
spoke about the resolution at a U-M
Board of Regents meeting, 15-20
students from SAFE, decked out in
black "Free Palestine/ Divest From
Israeli Apartheid" T-shirts and some
wearing gags over their mouths,
stood in the corner, protesting the
vote's outcome and the regents'
refusal to consider divestment. L

is a licensed psychologist
and co-author of the
best-selling Making Peace
with Your Parents. As a
recognized national.
expert on improving
difficult family situations,
his books have sold more
than a million copies and
have been translated into
fourteen languages. Dr.
Felder has appeared on
Oprah, NBC News, CNN,
CBS' The Early Show, AM
Canada, National Public
Radio and ABC Talkradio.

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