Books on Israel, coaching psychology, and Judaism 

Shidduch Success

This book aims to provide much-needed support and foster understanding and awareness to enhance people's chances of success in their pursuit of marriage.
 

The ideas in this book are the product of many years of research and practical work conducted by DateWell (www.datewell.org) to develop valuable and credible insights into the internal challenges that impede individuals during their dating journeys. Shidduch Success aims to empower individuals on their dating journey and equip them with the knowledge and insights needed to overcome internal obstacles and find their path to a successful shidduch.

A Light From Zion

A LIGHT FROM ZION TELLS THE REMARKABLE STORY BEHIND ISRAEL’S MOST FASCINATING INNOVATIONS, PROFILING CUTTING-EDGE ORGANIZATIONS AND COMPANIES IN FIELDS RANGING FROM AGRICULTURE TO ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH TO DISASTER PREPAREDNESS, AND WATER TO ENTERPRISE.

How did Israel rise in just a few decades from a tiny, struggling country with a third-world economy to a highly developed technological and economic powerhouse? In A Light From Zion, Yossi Ives provides a unique window into how Israel solved many of its most difficult problems through striking innovations in fields including agriculture, environment, healthcare, disaster relief, water purification, and business. By sharing its expertise with developing countries all over the world, Israel has helped millions of people overcome the challenges they face in their efforts to develop and modernize, thereby fulfilling its mission to be a light unto the nations.    

Relationship Coaching

Relationship Coaching provides a comprehensive guide to coaching to achieve relationship success and enrichment in three main areas: to help single people to form and secure stable relationships, to assist couples seeking to enhance their relationship and to support parents looking to improve their relationships with their children.

They book explains how the fundamental elements of coaching are customized and adapted to meet the needs of relationship enhancement. It provides insight into a range of applications and contexts, and introduces new ways of approaching marriage and singles coaching.



Relationship Coaching combines an accessible, practical guide with a strong theoretical underpinning.

This book offers a comprehensive, practical guide to goal-focused coaching. Addressing a significant gap in the literature, Ives and Cox contextualize goal-focused coaching within the broader coaching framework and explain the efficacy of this approach across a number of contexts and applications.

The book draws on behavioral science, rather than humanistic psychology, to provide a well-researched, evidence-based guide that includes:

• A detailed examination of the theoretical underpinnings of this approach
• A discussion of the skills, models and formats for goal-focused coaching
• Cutting edge insights into barriers to coaching and managing the coaching relationship
• Summaries, vignettes, references, and diagrams to aid learning



Goal-focused Coaching will be of interest to students taking classes in coaching, as well as professional executive coaches.

Seder Hishtalshelut

A well-received Hebrew work on the kabbalistic chain of creation, as explicated in Chabad-Chassidic sources. This book draws on a directly quotes from more than 200 discourses and other texts to provides a clear and comprehensive guide to this often complicated subject.

This book has been printed several times, and is now published by Heichal Menachem.

There Must Be a Better Way

People increasingly have to juggle multiple pressures and feel they just barely 'get by'. The book offers practical, down-to-earth advice about how to make things better and easier. It's packed with strategies for successful living, and covers a diverse range of issues - from stress reduction to coping with failure, from happiness to effective communication. But its central message is the importance of focused and determined action: what you do is generally more important than how you feel. Above all else, do something! This book shows you how.

Applied Jewish Social Values

This volume interweaves concepts and methods from psychology and other social sciences with Jewish ideas and practices in order to address contemporary social issues. This volume brings together pioneering research from scholars in such fields as psychology, education, and religious studies. The authors integrate insights from Jewish texts and practices with the methods and concepts of the social sciences to create interventions that promote the well-being of children, adults, families, communities, and society. Divided into three sections – Education, Psychological Well-Being, Society and Beyond– this book shows how this integrationist approach can deepen our understanding and generate new insights around pressing social challenges to impact positive change in the lives of people and communities.

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