Does the Jewish people need a Therapist?
Shalom Lappin comments on those critics of Israel who act like psychiatrists for the Jewish people:
tak[ing] Israel and its supporters to be acting out the effects of a long term historical trauma that reached its climax in the Holocaust.
This phenomenon is doubtless familiar to readers of this website; the most recent example of this is the play Seven Jewish Children.
Read Prof. Lappin’s full piece on Normblog, here.
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Airing today is an interview with David Friedman of the Anti-Defamation League on the rise of cyber-based antisemitism and its role in the wake of the financial crisis. David Friedman is the second guest on “Faith Complex,” a Georgetown University production in conjunction with the Washington Post’s “On Faith” section. “Faith Complex” is a dialogue about the entanglement of religion and politics hosted by Professor Jacques Berlinerblau of the Program for Jewish Civilization and produced by Professor Tom Banchoff of Georgetown’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs.
The video is available here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2009/05/27/VI2009052701379.html
Upcoming guests will include proponent of secular Islam Abdullahi An-Naim and Father Thomas Reese discussing the Obama administration and the Catholic community.
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