Orli Peter

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Sep 17, 2018, 6:39 AM

It Was a ‘They’ not a ‘He’ Who Killed Ari Fuld

They just killed him. They just killed my new friend, Ari Fuld, while he was shopping in Kenyon Harim, a mall in the Gush Katif, right outside of Jerusalem. Saturday night, I was listening to his taped radio show in...

May 6, 2016, 11:56 AM

How to Be Logically Consistent When Deleting the Jews from Holocaust Remembrance Day

If you omitted the Jews in your commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day yesterday, as Prime Minister Trudeau did on International Holocaust Day, make sure you omit mothers in your honoring of Mother's Day this Sunday. You do want to...

Jan 13, 2016, 12:41 PM

Take Off That Yellow Star, Rose; Keep Off Your Foreskin, Marty

Rose Hamid was wearing her white hijab with her turquoise headband when she protested Islamophobia by pinning onto her t-shirt an eight-pointed yellow star, designed to be reminiscent of the six-pointed Jewish star the Nazis forced Jews to wear -- except the...

Dec 14, 2015, 6:18 AM

Between monsters and heroes: The rise of reformist Muslims

They are a minority, they have suffered more than anyone and they are our best allies against radical Islam

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About Me

Orli Peter, Ph.D., is a neuropsychologist specializing in the assessment and treatment of trauma survivors. She is a former psychology professor at Mount St. Mary's University in Los Angeles, where she directed the psychology graduate programs. She travels frequently to the Middle East to help Arab and Israeli women through political and domestic trauma.