(JTA) — My 95-year-old mother knows a thing or two about trauma. Not only because she is a survivor of Auschwitz but also because she is a psychologist. “What worries me,” my mother says, “is that we Jews will succumb to our past trauma rather than rise above it.” I share my mother’s concern. Jewish Americans […]
Jonathan Jacoby
Jonathan Jacoby is the former executive director of New Israel Fund and president of Israel Policy Forum. He currently directs the Nexus Task Force, which is affiliated with the Center for the Study of Hate at Bard College.