He also knew that when it came to Jewish children and teenagers, the shelf was essentially empty. The missing handbook wasn’t only a failure of the behavioral health field. The goal is a fuller, more accurate description of who we are: an American Jewish community that is profoundly integrated and yet meaningfully distinctive. The empty shelf was trying to tell us something. Born in Buenos Aires and ordained in Jerusalem, he is co-editor of and contributor to the Handbook of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with Jewish American Youth (Springer, 2026).