Why Indonesia Could Be the Next Country to Normalize Its Ties with Israel
The world’s largest Muslim-majority nation should stop treating the Jewish state like a mistress.
January 7, 2022
The Jewish Jungian Who Believed the Key to Spiritual Revival Lay in Hasidism
Erich Neumannn and the “spiritual crisis” of modern Jewry.
Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud’s best-known disciple, stood out among early psychoanalysts because he was one of very few Gentiles. In the 1930s, long after he had broken with his erstwhile mentor, Jung—as Reuven Kruger puts its—came under “a barrage of fire for his views on racial psychology that seemed to imply tacit support, if not outright admiration, for National Socialism.” Yet the German Jewish philosopher Erich Neumann considered Jung “his tsaddik,” and Neumann, in turn, was one of Jung’s favored disciples. Neumann’s two-volume The Roots of Jewish Consciousness, which he declined to publish in his own lifetime, have now been issued in English translation. Kruger writes in his review:
January 7, 2022
Iran Is Smuggling Weapons to Israeli Arabs
But Israeli Arabs have little interest in the civil war Tehran wants to foment.
A Veteran Broadcaster Explains Why the BBC’s Anti-Semitism Drove Him to Resign
Combating the problem is akin to trying to stop a tsunami with a sandcastle.
An Italian Writer’s Idiosyncratic, and Very Jewish, Retelling of the Bible
Why not see the fearfully diffident Saul by way of Harpo Marx?
The Jewish Jungian Who Believed the Key to Spiritual Revival Lay in Hasidism
Erich Neumannn and the “spiritual crisis” of modern Jewry.