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Michael Oren has a new book to sell — a memoir called “Ally” about his years as Israel’s ambassador to Washington. To maximize sales, the former diplomat is apparently willing not only to blow up what remains of the very fragile Obama-Netanyahu relationship, but also to further divide the American Jewish community over its relationship…
The Anti-Defamation League criticized Michael Oren, Israel’s former ambassador to the United States, for an “insensitive and unjustified” attack on President Barack Obama. Oren’ should “walk back” views published in an essay posted Friday on the Foreign Policy website, the ADL said. Oren wrote that Obama’s attitudes toward Islam and American foreign policy in the…
Anny Katan learned psychoanalysis at Sigmund Freud’s knee — on his lap, in fact! “I grew up often literally sitting on Freud’s lap when I was very little,” Katan explained in a 1986 interview, reminiscing about her childhood in Vienna. Her personal history, intertwined as it was with the origins of psychoanalysis and with the…
(Haaretz) — On March 13, 1938, the executive committee of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society met for the last time; it called on members of the group to flee Austria, which German troops had entered the day before. According to biographer Ernest Jones, Sigmund Freud opened his remarks by noting how, after the destruction of the…
Thieves have tried to steal an ancient Greek urn containing the ashes of psychoanalysis founder Sigmund Freud, leaving the container severely damaged, police said on Wednesday. The urn was on display at Golders Green crematorium in north London, alongside memorials to other famous names such as Dracula author Bram Stoker and actors Sid James and…
● The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry By Gary Greenberg Blue Rider Press, 416 pages, $28.95 Any psychiatrist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. Substituting the word “psychiatrist” for the original word,…
WHERE’S THE TRUTH? Letters and Journals, 1948-1957 By Wilhelm Reich edited by Mary Boyd Higgins and Brian Boyd Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 288 pages, $40 Being a prophet is an arduous profession, and one should by all means steer one’s children away from it. It is lonely, the hours are long, the pay is shabby…
The Cairo-born French Jewish ethnopsychiatrist Tobie Nathan previously published a novel, “Who Killed Arlozoroff?” about the 1933 murder of left-wing Israeli political leader Haim Arlosoroff, as well as a book-length essay last year criticizing Sigmund Freud’s 1899 “Interpretation of Dreams.” Now the ever-iconoclastic Nathan, born in 1948, has written his memoirs “Ethno-Novel,” to explain how…
THE TEMPLE EMANU-EL STREICKER CENTER and Virtual
Aug 10, 2022
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Will the last Jew left in New York’s congressional delegation be reelected? Will New York’s senior congresswoman receive another term? Or will one of the newcomers upend Manhattan politics?
