Join our host, Kerby Anderson as he brings us today’s show. To begin, Kerby welcomes Dr. Joe Mcilhaney. They’ll talk about the Medical Institute For Sexual Health.
In the second hour, Kerby brings us a biblical perspective on the weekend’s top news. Then he welcomes author and Holocaust survivor Jochen (Jack) Wurfl. Jack was born in 1932 and survived the Holocaust in Germany before coming to the USA at 17. Kerby and Jack will speak about International Holocaust Remembrance Day and about Harvard’s revised anti-Semitism policy.
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During his tenure as a private practitioner, he was active on the medical staff of St. David’s Community Hospital, including serving as President of the Medical Staff and member of the hospital’s Board of Trustees. As a physician, he focused his attention on reproductive technologies. He introduced laparoscopy, gynecologic laser surgery and microsurgery to the central Texas medical community.
In 1984, along with three other physicians, Dr. McIlhaney was instrumental in founding one of the first successful non-university IVF programs in the country. Dr. McIlhaney was instrumental in the Hospital Board of Directors guidelines for the IVF program protecting human embryos. By limiting the number of eggs fertilized to those the husband and wife would agree in writing to receive back into the woman’s uterus, the number of excess embryos were almost eliminated. He also initiated one of the first dedicated women’s health centers in a private hospital in Texas at St. David’s Hospital during his tenure on the board.
Dr. McIlhaney is the author of eight books including, 1250 Health-Care Questions Women Ask and Girls Uncovered and Hooked: The Brain Science on How Casual Sex Affects Human Development. Some of the books have been translated into foreign languages. His research for his books and the information in the books focused on the problems rampant in the USA and around the world, of STI’s, non-marital pregnancy and HIV/AID’s. As a result, he founded The Medical Institute for Sexual Health, a non-profit medical/educational research organization in 1992. In 1995, he left his private practice of twenty-eight years to devote his full-time attention to working with that organization. He retired from the Presidency of the Organization in 2005. He realized that there was no coordinated effort to provide healthy sexual guidance to young people in the United States. Many organizations around the country focused on guiding young people to being involved in sexual activity only if married. Dr. McIlhaney brought many of these issues together in the New Sexual Revolution Coalition. This group now consists of more than 400 groups and individuals working closely together. Dr. McIlhaney in early 2021 was then called back to leadership of the organization and continues in that role to the present.
Like the Hydra in Greek mythology, we have worked tirelessly to cut off a few heads—only to see more heads grow back in their place. Now, we must strike at the base—and we must do that together. We have the opportunity to join together and attack the Hydra at its core, by working together to restore sex to its intended context and start a “new sexual revolution.”
As Hitler’s persecution of the Jews intensified, Jack’s grandfather sneaked the boys into hiding at a children’s summer camp in the resort village of Dangast, 200 miles northwest of Berlin on the North Sea. The camp was operated by a brave and sympathetic German woman named Irma Franzen-Heinrichsdorff.
Jack and Peter lived with “Tante Irma” for twelve years, where they survived bombing raids, SS police surveillance, and food shortages. Their mother died in Auschwitz. Their father, a political prisoner in the Mauthausen concentration camp, died shortly after his liberation after World War II ended.
At age seventeen, Jack began his second life when the U.S. Committee for the Care of European Children relocated him and Peter to the United States.
Driven to “build something that will last” with his new found freedom in Baltimore, Jack took night classes to learn English and found a job at a small insurance company. After serving two years in the U.S. Army, where he was selected for the color guard at the ten-year commemoration of the D-Day invasion in Normandy, Jack married Zonia, a former Miss El Salvador. They raised three daughters, Odette, Dana, and Lisa.
In 1969, Jack founded Diversified Insurance Industries, an agency that he built into one of the top 200 in the country. Jack also played hard as a skier, pilot, thoroughbred racehorse owner, deep-sea fisherman, and world traveler. He golfed with astronaut Alan Shepard and volleyed with tennis star Maria Sharapova.
These days, when Jack is not in the office, he enjoys spending time with his daughters and four grandchildren, Elle, Thomas, Gillian, and Aidan.
Jack was born in 1932 in Germany to his Jewish mother and Catholic father, and lived in Austria until 1936. Anticipating Hitler’s invasion of Austria, his parents sent Jack and his brother, Peter, back to Germany to live with their Jewish grandparents in Berlin.
At age seventeen, Jack began his second life when the U.S. Committee for the Care of European Children relocated him and Peter to the United States.