Click Here to Read: Room 222.
EDITORIAL
Struck Anew
Shock occasions change. Five years ago ROOM flashed into being as an immediate response to the 2016 US election. Psychoanalysts who had never written before felt compelled to write.
ROOM has remained a participatory community platform, grounded in a psychoanalytic understanding of how change happens. Each issue archives a new moment. Each is a “working-through” of that which has already passed.
But now we are struck anew. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine occurred during the final weeks of production of this anniversary issue. Still, the questions posed by the contributors in ROOM 2.22 are eerily prescient and speak collectively for all of us. Each looks toward a future none can envision.
Continue reading Room 222 and Room Round Table
Click Here to Read: In Ukraine, a long history of Russian crimes against Jews by Benjamin Ivry on the Forward website on February 28, 2022.Religious
Jews in Khorostkiv, small town in Ternopil region of western Ukraine, in 1917 during times First World War. Hasids. Hasidic Jews of eastern Galicia (west Ukraine, then still Austro-Hungarian empire until 1918) Author Unknown. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Avraham Stern, the Warrior-Poet killed by the British: Eighty years after his death, what is the source of the increased interest in his life and views? Daniel Gordis on the Substack website on February 14, 2022.
Photo of Avraham Stern (1907-1942), leder of the extremist zionist organisation Lehi and former member of the direction of Irgun. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
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