A Legend of Innocence

ClciK Here to Read: A Legend of Innocence: French Jews find themselves in a delicate position as once-settled debates about the country’s wartime past flare up again BY Daniel Solomon on the Tablet website on June 28, 2022.
French Jews of the Middle Ages. From the 1901-1906 Jewish Ecyclopedia.  Image: Singer, Isidore, 1859-1939; Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Here’s what really happened on Juneteenth

Click Here to Read: Here’s what really happened on Juneteenth: And here’s why it’s time for supremacists and their sympathizers to surrender by Robin Washington on the Forward website on June 13, 2022.  This is an updated version of a column originally published on June 18, 2021.
Image: Galveston Daily News, June 21, 1865, Gen. Gordon Granger announces “all slaves are free” Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

How an elite group of Jewish refugees helped to defeat the Third Reich

Click Here to Read: How an elite group of Jewish refugees helped to defeat the Third Reich: X Troop played a crucial role in the D-Day landings and killed, captured and interrogated their way across occupied Europe all the way into the heart of the Third Reich  By Leah Garrett on the Forward website on June 6, 2022.
Map of the Holocaust in Europe during World War II, 1939-1945. Image: :Dna-Dennis Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The lie of the banality of evil: Hannah Arendt’s fatal flaw by Henry Zvi Lothane, M.D.

Click Here to Read:  The lie of the banality of evil: Hannah Arendt’s fatal flaw by Henry Zvi Lothane, M.D. Published in: Naso, R.C. & Mills, J. (eds.) (2016). Ethics of evil/ Psychoanalytic Investigations. London: Karnac, Chapter 7, pp. 233-264.
Click Here to Read: How To Think About Evil: A Response To Richard J. Bernstein Ph.D. On Arendt’s Banality Of Evil  by Henry Zvi Lothane, M.D. Published in Issues in Psychoanalytic Psychology, 36:1-20, 2014.|
Photograph of Hannah Arendt in 1933. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.