Irwin Mansdorf, at The Blogs

Jul 24, 2024, 4:16 PM

Psychological ploys by Iran and its proxies to recast terrorists as the underdogs have made strange bedfellows of radical Islamists and the progressive left

Dec 30, 2020, 6:50 PM

Their pandemic response defied Jewish values…and common sense

Ultra orthodox jewish man attend the funeral of late Rabbi Aharon David Hadash, spiritual leader of the Mir Yeshiva, on December 3, 2020, in Jerusalem. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

They acted as if there was no disease, or if there was, it was not all that serious. Put simply, ultra-Orthodox Haredi leaders failed

About Me

Irwin J. (Yitzchak) Mansdorf, PhD is a fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs specializing in political psychology and an adjunct professor of psychology at Long Island University in Brooklyn. He has recently conducted several studies on the behavioral aspects of the covid-19 pandemic and continues to study the evolving nature of how people and communities behave as vaccination efforts begin.