- Shalom in the Home
"Shalom in the Home" is a family relationship
reality television series hosted byRabbi Shmuley Boteach on TLC. The series debuted onApril 10 ,2006 .how format
"Shalom in the Home" is a weekly one-hour prime-time program that helps families overcome their most difficult problems. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach provides insight into relationships, marriage and parenting. In each episode he works with one family for ten days to help them come to terms with their problems and find the skills they need to improve.
After driving up to each house in an airstream trailer equipped with television monitors, cameras are installed, capturing footage of the family's dynamics. Rabbi Boteach brings the parents into the trailer, which is "neutral territory," shows them the footage, and gently confronts them about the family's dysfunction in the hopes of shocking them into change. Other techniques he uses include: having family members wear earpieces so that Rabbi Boteach can encourage positive, healthy interactions, and discourage negative, dysfunctional behaviors; and taking the family on an outdoors outing or activity.
Rabbi Shmuley has appeared twice alongside families from the series on the
Oprah television chat show to discuss common family problems and how to solve them.A second season of the series began on Sunday,
March 4 ,2007 at 7pm. [http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-35warzone,0,1304289.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines If your home is a war zone, maybe the rabbi can help] , "Sun-Sentinel ",March 5 ,2007 . "The show launched its second season Sunday (TLC, 7 p.m.)."] . Shalom in the Home did not air in 2008.References
External links
* [http://www.tlc.com/shalom "Shalom in the Home" Website]
*imdb title|title=Shalom in the Home|id=0770649
* [http://www.shmuley.com/articles.php?id=253 Shalom in the Home news article]
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