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May 29, 2024, 3:56 PM

International journalists visit Israel during mental health month

May is Mental Health Awareness Month in the US, but for a group of international journalists hosted by the Jerusalem Press Club in Israel, mental health discussions weren't just a timely coincidence during their visit. Amidst the backdrop of...

Jan 14, 2024, 2:38 PM

Thinking Ahead: Postwar Mental Health Needs

Israel is grappling with an enduring trauma – a relentless cycle of rocket attacks, violence, war and displacement that has left the entire nation immersed in a deep emotional crisis. The challenge we face is not just about immediate...

Dec 25, 2022, 4:05 PM

Top 10 Podcasts of 2022 from Jerusalem

If you like to listen and learn, but you haven’t tuned in yet, now’s a good time to click on Spotify (or Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, etc.) and subscribe to The Van Leer Jerusalem Series on Ideas. You’ll be glad...

Apr 12, 2022, 4:20 PM

Bloody Ramadan Returns

This article, published in The Washington Times back in 2016 is still sadly true. Reprinted with deepest condolences to the newly bereaved Israeli families. "My Muslim friends tell me that Ramadan is a holy month. They say it is a...

Mar 21, 2022, 11:31 PM

Behind the News: Ideology and Psychology

Although we have so much more information than ever before, understanding continues to remain elusive. Nowhere is this truer than in the world of current events, where facts and impressions whiz by, claiming our attention for milliseconds, leaving us breathless...

Mar 10, 2022, 2:50 PM

Israel’s Lame Response to the Ukrainian Situation

I'm pleased to share this guest post from my friend and colleague, Rochelle Furstenberg. ISRAEL’S LAME RESPONSE TO THE UKRAINIAN SITUATION Is This The Child We Yearned For? By Rochelle Furstenberg In 1939 my husband’s father, Yeshayahu Solly Furstenberg wrote from Berlin to...

Dec 26, 2021, 4:38 PM

Top 10 Podcasts From Jerusalem In 2021

What big ideas are closest to your heart? War? Love? Religion? The Van Leer Series on Ideas brought the world’s best thinkers and writers to our microphones in 2021 to share their understanding of these and other big issues . Here...

May 21, 2021, 1:15 AM

Don’t treat body counts as scorecards

"If it bleeds, it leads" has long been the news producer's mantra. The images of crumbling buildings, broken bodies, and distraught family members, especially if they have lost a child, rivet viewers. Yes, every innocent civilian fatality is tragic...

Jan 11, 2021, 4:13 PM

Who Built Jerusalem? Architects of a New City

A remarkable view of one of the world's most beloved and troubled cities, Adina Hoffman's Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City (FSG, 2017) is a gripping and intimate journey into the very different lives of...

May 18, 2020, 3:53 PM

The Biggest Book Club in Israel*

Are you Zoomed out? Blessed, but fatigued as well, by all the online classes, lectures, shiurim and “Quarantini” happy hours with friends? Need an interesting, informative conversation you can simply listen to on your daily walk? Then check out The...

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Renee Garfinkel, Ph.D. is a psychologist, television commentator and podcast host of the Van Leer Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/van-leer-institute/

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