Brian Zakem is a mental health professional and family and ancestry geneologist, as well as a community and interreligious facilitator and leader for more than forty years. His practice is focused in Chicago and its south suburbs. Brian's writings include "Ruhzany Translated" (2012) - English co-editor with Edie Taylor and researcher (JewishGen), as well as various applications of still, video & movies in pscho-social therapy, published in the International Phototherapy Journal and several other magazines and books, popular and professional.