At the heart of every great people pleaser is the best of intentions of wanting to be liked by the other person. And that is why people pleasers, as “nice” as they are, are never fully trusted by the target of their affections. When someone wants to please a person, that is OK, provided that the person feels the attention is earned. The problem is that a people...

Welcome to the all new Truetalkradio.com. It took months, but here we are with a fresh new site, new content and lots of fun. I want to take this opportunity to thank tech guru Jason Mayoff for all his hard work in getting this site up and running. Without him, we’d still be in the stone ages. We have some exciting bloggers who have joined our team, some...

This article appeared in the latest issue of La Voie Sepharad and JMag: The Cost of Being JewishBy Howie Silbiger At the beginning of July, Newsweek Magazine, a weekly American news publication, ran a column entitled ‘The Cost of Being Jewish’. In the article, Lisa Miller, the magazine’s religion editor complained that the cost of being Jewish, essentially...

I have been hosting radio for approximately 11 years, before that for 7 or 8 years I worked as a print journalist and commentary writer. I’ve worked for commercial stations and am currently at 1650 AM Radio Shalom, the Montreal Jewish community radio station. In my entire career, I have never experienced a phenomenon that seems to permiate the listeners...

As appeared in the September 2009 issue of JMAG Magazine: by Howard Silbiger In the 1920s German Jews had ascended to the top of society. They were the aristocratic symbol of wealth, culture and physique. These German Jews were loyal to Germany, they identified as German before Jewish. Judaism to them was an inherited bother, they were more concerned with being...