Taking it off
In new novel, A.B. Yehoshua asks if Jewishness is something one can shed
January 1, 2009
A.B. Yehoshua, long recognized as one of Israel’s best novelists, has in recent years also emerged as one of its most prominent scolds. On Tisha B’Av this year, he published an op-ed in the Guardian deploring the “moral deterioration” of Israel’s public life. Contrasting scandal-plagued politicians like Moshe Katsav and Ehud Olmert with the austere founders of the Jewish state, Yehoshua argued that the lawlessness and immorality of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank was now bleeding back into the state itself. Read More
Combatting a stigma:
Mental illness in a Jewish world
January 1, 2009
It is a sad fact of life that even as we have moved into the 21st century, we are still dealing with mental illness as a shameful malady. While there have been public awareness campaigns to destigmatize mental illness and a shift in the scientific community to understand the biochemical nature of psychiatric illnesses, the shame persists.Read More
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