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Commentaries from the Edge
by Keren Goldberg
Views on many subjects where we can discover new understandings. Cover photo by John Goldberg.
Episodes
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#4 THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LOS ANGELES with Francisco Jasso Magana
Our final podcast episode in this series is describing an important research project at the Center for the Study of Los Angeles (StudyLA) at Loyola Marymount University, conducted by expert Research Associate Francisco Jasso Magana who received his Doctorate from the University of Caifornia at...
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#3 THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LOS ANGELES with Chhandosi Roy, Ph.d
We are continuing with the podcast series describing several research projects which are the centerpiece of the Center for the Study of Los Angeles (StudyLA) at Loyola Marymount University. The podcast guest, Chhandosi Roy is a Co-Principal Investigator of StudyLA and has a Doctorate in Political...
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#2 THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LOS ANGELES with Brianne Gilbert
It was a quiet, peaceful time as the year 2025 began in Los Angeles, California, in the first days of January. Then, suddenly, with winds of 100 miles an hour, a fire began that roared across the City with biblical destruction in its path. The fire came to be known as the Eaton and Pacific...
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#1 THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LOS ANGELES with Director, Fernando Guerra, Ph.d
Professor Fernando Guerra has been a leader in linking the rigorous work of academic research to the community at large, empowering the voice of the people. This podcast episode is the beginning of a series highlighting the work at the Center for the Study of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount...
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USA - Hope & Hate - with Jewish Historian, David Myers
As the Chair of Jewish History at the UCLA Department of History, and for the 2026 - 27 academic year, on sabbatical at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Professor David Myers walks through paths of hope and hate in his work. In this...
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A TIME CAPSULE: Opening the Capsule at the Los Angeles Central Library after 100 years | Todd Lerew
The City of Los Angeles began to build a magnificent architectural beauty for its Central Library in the downtown area. As part of the ceremony to mark the building’s site in 1925, a time capsule was created and buried. When the Central Library opened its doors in July of 1926, the Time Capsule…
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TO READ, TO THINK, TO DREAM: Celebrating a 100 Year Old Library | Christina Rice and Madeline Peña
The approach and the entrance to the Los Angeles Central Library in the City’s downtown, is both dramatic and inviting. The experience can conjure the feeling of entering a Cathedral. One is walking through arches, rotundas, gothic high ceilings past large posters, rare paintings and sculpture…
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The Extraordinary Life from Hollywood to being a Pioneering Elected Official - with Sheila Kuehl
From radio days as an Actress, to the political halls of California State and County governments, Sheila Kuehl has always excelled. In her youth and young adulthood she was in key roles on very popular T. V. programs for years. At Harvard Law School she was a leader in various campus…
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MEDITATION: Navigating Through Uncertain Times with Dr. Marvin J. Southard, Ph.d
The need for calm, for compassion, to feel centered, all attributes that can be result of meditating according to return guest to the podcast, Dr. Marvin J. Southard. He carries an expertise about meditation not only professionally as a leader in the field of mental health, but personally as a…
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The Courtroom Goes to the Movies - with Author and UCLA Law Professor Paul Bergman
Podcast Guest Professor Paul Bergman easily expresses a kind of joy and delight he has enjoyed in his over 40 years as a Professor at the UCLA School of Law. As retired and now with the status of Emeritus, he continues to allow his students at the Law School to contemplate their upcoming…
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THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LOS ANGELES with Director Fernando Guerra, Ph.D
Los Angeles, the City of promise, a history where people came to start life anew, native born Americans and people from around the world. Once again, Dr. Fernando Guerra is a guest on the podcast program for the third time. This year 2025 is closing, a year like no other in Los Angeles. Dr…
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The Play, AUGUST 29, at a time of America In Struggle with Guest Evelina Fernandez
It is the Summer of 2025, a time like no other in Los Angeles, California. There is drama on the streets, especially in Latino neighborhoods, where masked men jump out of unmarked cars and grab people who look like they might not have citizenship papers. It is at this time that the Latino Theatre...
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THE OFFICE OF LIFE, JUSTICE AND PEACE at the L. A. Catholic Archdiocese
A visit to the Los Angeles Catholic Archdiocese gives the opportunity to enter a world envisioned by the L. A. Archbishop Jose Gomez, and Pope Francis just days after his passing. And how can we describe that vision? One way is to picture the great power of a Church with a following of five…
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MENTAL HEALTH ON THE FRONTLINES, Francisco Tan
As the podcast theme of community emergency outreach programs at the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health (LACDMH) comes to an end for the month of December, 2024, it is clear that creative innovation is making a difference. In this episode, Francisco Tan, Psychologist and head of the...
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MENTAL HEALTH ON THE FRONTLINES, Episode #15 with Miriam Brown, L.C.S.W
Miriam Brown leads the way at the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health (LACDMH) with the broadest view of the ways the department can and will respond to a long menu of emergencies in a City like Los Angeles, California. Her expertise, and even more, her dedication, has brought her to…
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MENTAL HEALTH ON THE FRONTLINES, Reuben Wilson
The Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health (LACDMH) has developed a robust way of delivering vital services to people suffering from a mental health crisis. It has grown over the years and rests firmly in 2024, in a campaign called - “Who Do I Call for Help”? It is a campaign for the...
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MENTAL HEALTH ON THE FRONTLINES, Bac Luu at the LAPD Headquarters
Here is some good police news. Here is a tale of lessons learned from past mistakes. Here, come and listen to ways institutions, organizations, work cultures and people always have the potential to change for the better. Bac Luu, a leader with the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health...
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MENTAL HEALTH ON THE FRONTLINES: Elizabeth Cope
A few years ago the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health (LACDMH) went forward to create new kinds of services in unchartered waters. What developed was a courageous and innovative program called, Street Psychiatry-HOME (Homeless Outreach Mobile Engagement) Team. It was courageous…
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MENTAL HEALTH ON THE FRONTLINES: Episode #10 with Dr. Shayan Rab
Dr Shayan Rab goes where Psychiatrists have rarely gone, into the streets where the unhoused of Los Angele, California, strive to survive. He uses the word - majestic - to describe his daily work experience, a word that means beauty and dignity. It is how he sees the opportunity to save a life…
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MENTAL HEALTH ON THE FRONTLINES: Episode With Dr. Yelena Koldolskaya and Isidro Alvarez
We are continuing with a series of episodes on Street Psychiatry, learning about various parts of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health (LACDMH)’s program called The HOME Team. Guests on this episode are key to the program’s successes, treating people like in an open air hospital to...
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MENTAL HEALTH ON THE FRONTLINES: Aubree Lovelace
In Los Angeles, California, there is a smaller City within a City. The smaller one is the City where its citizens live and die on the street. The numbers are staggering. At the last approximate count, there were over 75,000 people trying to survive unhoused and, at the same time, thousands who…
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MENTAL HEALTH on the FRONTLINES: Dr. Sarah Church
As the last series of podcast episodes highlighting the new CARE Court, a Superior Court of the State of California, initiated in December of 2023, our guest is Dr. Sarah Church, Supervising Psychologist of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health (LACDMH), who has stories to tell. She...
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MENTAL HEALTH On the FRONTLINES: Dr. Nilsa Gallardo and Felipe Andalon
We continue our podcast episodes on CARE (Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment) Court, a judicial place that creates a path to healing and rehabilitation for individuals suffering from untreated mental illness. A pillar of making this Court an agent for change rather than a place for...
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MENTAL HEALTH ON THE FRONTLINES: Harold Turner, Urban NAMI
In shining a light on some new developments in services at the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health (LACDMH), CARE Court is a perfect example. Launched in December of 2023, and funded by the State of California, the department has joined an exciting collaboration of government agencies...
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MENTAL HEALTH ON THE FRONTLINES: Judge Scott R. Herin
A persistent struggle in a metropolitan area like Los Angeles, California, is the struggle to treat persons with mental illness before it becomes severe. In the United States mental illness since the covid pandemic has become more of a crisis. On any given day in Los Angeles, someone is coming...
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MENTAL HEALTH ON THE FRONTLINES: Jaime Gomez
As the special series on the podcast program continues, this is the final episode exploring Peer Resource Centers at the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health (LACDMH). We are visiting with Jaime Gomez on the Eastside of the City, a Supervising Community Health Worker who relishes that…
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MENTAL HEALTH ON THE FRONTLINES: Roslynn Adolphus
The podcast series highlighting outstanding and innovative programs at the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health (LACDMH) continues with a visit to another Peer Resource Center located in South Los Angeles, California. This Center is part of a sprawling complex at the Martin Luther King...
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MENTAL HEALTH ON THE FRONTLINES: Tosha Sweet and Tammy Lofton
The launching of a new series of episodes on this podcast, COMMENTARIES FROM THE EDGE, is covering important aspects of innovative and powerfully effective ways of supporting and promoting mental health. The projects, beginning with what is called the Peer Resource Centers, are part of the Los...
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MENTAL HEALTH ON THE FRONTLINES: Catherine Clay and Joseph Cuevas
The launching of a new series of episodes on this podcast, COMMENTARIES FROM THE EDGE, is covering important aspects of innovative and powerfully effective ways of supporting and promoting mental health. The projects, beginning with what is called the Peer Resource Centers, are part of the Los...
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SOUTH AFRICAN APARTHEID: A First Person Account, with Chaplain Ruth Belonsky, MJS
There is courage and there is sacrifice, and Ruth Belonsky’s life is an example of both. Born into the world of Apartheid in South Africa, she grew up in an area called East London near Cape Town, segregated like everywhere in that Country. A child of immigrants from Germany, she believes that...
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CINNAMON GIRL, A Mystery Novel of Suspense, set in Los Angeles, by Writer Daniel Weizmann
Los Angeles (L. A. ) is renown as a City of sunlight, a place of gorgeous topography from the mountains to the desert to the Pacific ocean. And yet, Writers for the last hundred years have been attracted to finding out what is lurking in the shadows of L. A. Daniel Weizmann in his second mystery...
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EVERYONE IS AN IMMIGRANT with Angelica Salas of CHIRLA
What symbol could be more famous for the United States of America than the Statue of Liberty. At its very top is the famous poem which reads in part “…..Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free,…..” It is famous because that is the essence of the U. S. , a Country…
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DISPLACED PERSONS: A Book of Short Stories by Author, Joan Leegant
“…..but no one, it seems, is able to give you directions.” Excerpt from a book of poems by Billy Collins Have you ever wished you had a roadmap of your life, like a GPS that clearly tells you what direction to take? DISPLACED PERSONS, Author and Educator Joan Leegant’s most recent book of…
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MAKING A VIBRANT LIFE at 90 Years Old with Harvey Keenan
Turning 90 years old to Harvey Keenan means simply opening new doors to walk through continuing his involvements in the community. What is his key to having a vibrant life at any age? He advocates for remembering that there are choices to make to keep yourself on a path to meaning and purpose to...
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GOING FORWARD AGAINST THE ODDS: A Muslim Jewish Partnership with Ben Ginsburg
At the moment of this podcast episode recording, the world is waiting to see the very future of war in the Middle East, the very future of war or peace in the world. What better time to highlight a program with a legacy of bringing Muslims and Jews together. It is called “NEW GROUND: A Muslim...
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OVERCOMING DIVISIVENESS: A Hope for Coming Together with Marvin J. Southard, Ph.D
Once again the prominent leader in the mental health field, Dr. Marvin J. Southard, joined the Podcast program as a guest for the fourth time. Continuing the theme of divisiveness in the United States society and how it has impacted much of pubic and private lives, Dr. Southard reflects on the...
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TOMORROW’S WOMEN: Palestinian and Israeli Young Women Come Together for “Courage and Leadership"
This is the moment that TOMORROW’s WOMEN, created 20 years ago, was made for, a moment bleak with pain and suffering after October 7th, offering hope and a vision forward. Listen to the young women alumnae of the program, Noga Bar Oz, Lana Ikelan, both talking from Jerusalem, and the Executive...
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TRAUMA AND HOPE: The Work of The Ariel Center in Israel with Gila Rockman
Israel is a traumatized nation since the morning of October 7th, when Hamas Terrorists entered the land and went on a rampage of killing, torturing and raping. Israel is the only nation where repeatedly its very existence is threatened and yet, it is populated by a people, like everyone…
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Recipe for Personal Peace and Wellbeing with Dr. Marvin J. Southard
It is a New Year, 2024, and we are walking through turbulence in the United States in many ways. There is climate turbulence, political turbulence and the turbulence of a divided society increasingly breaking into hostile groups. All of this feels more consequential because the U. S. is heading...
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Behind the Scenes Filming of LIONS OF THE SEA with Producer, Adam Leipzig
A documentary film titled, LIONS OF THE SEA, is in the process of being created as a journey into the world of Sea Lions. In the story to be told we will meet them in a most protected environmental area off the coast of the Galapagos. Adam Leipzig, the Producer, is no stranger to creating nature...
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END OF THE YEAR REPORTING
We are very grateful to all of you listeners and the podcast guests. Have a healthy and happy New Year.
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A MODEL CENTER FOR THE COMMUNITY, with Bianca Juarez Escamilla
Returning once again to the Pico Union Project (PUP), we hear in this episode from Bianca Juarez Escamilla, who is a new staff member that brings her talent and knowledge as a resident in this multiethnic neighborhood near the downtown area of Los Angeles, California, to the development of...
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CENTROPA: Jewish History Comes Alive with Lauren Granite, Ph.D
Besides remembering what is long gone, decimated by the Holocaust of World War II, the CENTROPA organization is dedicated to recapturing the vibrant Jewish life of the early 20th century on the European continent. Their operation is based in headquarters in Vienna, Austria; Budapest, Hungary; and...
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LIBRARIES - A Sanctuary and a Purpose Redefined, with Karen Pickard Four and Edna Osepans
Sometimes there are extraordinary people who arrive just at the right position to make a community a better place to live for everyone. This is the case at the Los Angeles City Pubic Library system with Karen Pickard Four and Edna Osepans. Karen has been the lead Librarian at what is called the...
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UNITED WE STAND: Welcoming the Immigrant with Isaac Cuevas
United States of America sits on lands that were first occupied by Indigenous Tribes. They are the Native Americans. Today, these same lands are mostly occupied by descendants of immigrants or current immigrants. In this podcast you will be listening to Isaac Cuevas, Director of Immigration and...
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29 WIsdoms: THE JEWELS OF ELUL with Ross Chait
We are all walking through a turbulent time in the world, and particularly in the United States. It is a time when many are turning to their spirituality or faith for inspiration, for comfort, for some guiding principals. The JEWELS OF ELUL books published annually for the last 21 years, are part...
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A STUNNING DEBUT NOVEL ABOUT LOVE LOST AND SURVIVAL by Judith Teitelman
In this moving and emotional debut novel, GUESTHOUSE FOR GANESHA, Judith Teitelman takes us on a lyrical journey with her poetic writing style and her spiritual awareness. We are introduced to Esther, the center character of the story, and we immediately learn two elements that fill this novel;...
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HISTORY REPEATS - DEFENDING THE DEFENSELESS with Barry Fisher
There are borders on the European continent where civilizations have clashed, empires have risen and fallen. The Country of Kosovo is one of those places, formerly part of what was Yugoslavia and now bordered by several nation States such as Albania, Serbia and Macedonia. As we take up the fate…
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Changing the Conversation Around Aging with Jennifer Wong, Ph.D
Do you remember the image of old people spending their days sitting in a rocking chair? That may be extreme but so is the revolution happening about getting older in America. No place are the radical changes more apparent than at a new place called the Wallis Annenberg GenSpace. For people of an...
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Drumming for Mental Wellness and Brain Enhancement - Steven Angel, Drumming for Your Life Institute
Here is an example of taking the oldest sound, and most primitive, and using creative innovation to apply it to current 21st century needs. Steven Angel, President and Creator of the Drumming for Your Life Institute, is a prolific inventor finding ways that an ancient activity can improve our...
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Views on many subjects where we can discover new understandings. Cover photo by John Goldberg.
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