The 'Rebbe' Of Back Pain: Gentile physician's theories on mind over malady make him a guru in Orthodox community.

Jewish Week, The, April, 2000 by Weichselbaum, Lehman

Weichselbaum, Lehman The Jewish Week 04-07-2000 The `Rebbe' Of Back Pain: Gentile physician's theories on mind over malady make him a guru in Orthodox community. LEHMAN WEICHSELBAUM JEWISH WEEK CORRESPONDENT Hundreds of Orthodox Jews thronged the ballroom and spilled out into the streets outside Brooklyn's Congregation Gevul Yaavetz on a recent evening, their mood at the same time reverent and faintly partylike. The object of their pilgrimage was a stocky, clean-shaven man in a gray suit who wore no yarmulke and, in fact, wasn't even Jewish.

His name was John Sarno, a physician who holds key posts at New York University and the best-selling author of "Healing Back Pain" and "The Mindbody Prescription." And his controversial message -- that the cure for...

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