WEEKLY CHECKLIST 11/6/23
HELLO!
It’s been a while since I have kept this checklist but I am going to bring it back online. I am hoping to get more regular with a Newsletter Update on Thursday Morning and a Weekly Checklist to Start Off Your Week on Monday Morning.
Also having just come back from Israel less than a week before October 7 has shaken me to my core. Still, it has also inspired me to dig more deeply into the layers of history and interlocking oppression impacting Israeli and Palestinian people. So my checklist will mostly focus on sharing those findings as they pertain to a Jewish person deepening their knowledge and moving into the direction of ethical self-criticism which I believe is the tradition of “tikkun olam,” or repairing the world.
Knowledge is power in this case, in so far as we need to work with our tendency to see reality through one community’s position, especially because most communities are incredibly diverse.
FOR YOUR CULTURAL HEALTH
For those people who want to go deeper than Instagram and are curious to learn of the Jewish position that seeks safety from the massacre in Israel but also a cease to the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, here are some voices that have been opening my opens:
The Ezra Klein Show Podcast published regularly by the New York Times offers a wealth of knowledge and wisdom. It’s clear from Ezra’s point of view as a Jewish left-oriented person, but his interviews do a great job of showing the different options that were available and could be available to address the murder of innocents, She Polled Gazans on Oct. 6. Here’s What She Found.
On the November 3, podcast Ezra invites Amaney Jamal, the den of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, and co-principal investigora of Arab Barometer, to walk Ezra through the complicated picture: “The people of Gaza, like any other population have diverse beliefs. But one thing is clear: Hamas is not very popular.
On the October 31,
Podcast interviews Zack Beauchamp, a senior correspondent at Vox on, “If Not This, Then What Should Israel do?” If Not This, Then What Should Israel Do?
On October 26,
Dr. Gabor Mate published a YouTube called “A Call for Healing.” He is a world-renowned author and trauma expert and speaks of his own history. His grandparents died in the Holocaust. He was raised in Israel and has visited Gaza multiple times. A Call for Healing: Gabor Maté on Palestine / Israel
Last week,
Jonathan Graubart, a professor of political science at San Diego, in his most modest way, gave an interview about this important book on the rethinking of Zionism, quoting a great deal from the philosophers Hannah Arendt and Martin Buber, a tradition that insisted on a just co-existence with Palestinian Arabs and to stimulate a revisioning of what could be a contemporary Reformation of Jewish Self-Determination. Hannah Arendt on What Went Wrong with the Zionist Project (Jonathan Graubart)
I’m also excited to have discovered an analysis that deals with the psychopathology of the Hamas leaders behind the massacre of innocent Israelis and what many in Israel have felt to be Prime Minister Benjamin Netanayhu’s right-wing, racist and authoritarian impulses with Israeli professor of clinical psychology Sam Vaknin:
FOR YOUR COMEDIC HEALTH
I'd also like to kindly request that you bear in mind the invaluable contributions of two dear friends who are instrumental in guiding my journey towards a more public and literary endeavor, bridging the gap between professional psychology and our audience: Beth Ladipies, the visionary mind behind The Infinite Creator, and Ally Noel, an exceptional marketing and social media consultant.
