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When Words Become Moral Certainties

I practiced and taught psychotherapy for over 40 years. Over time, I learned that repeated narratives can acquire weight of established truth...

27.05.2026 20

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Moshe Manheim

When Democracies Hesitate

Democracies are deeply conflicted creatures. Their greatest strength is restraint: restraints on power, restraints on leadership, restraints on the...

20.05.2026 20

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Moshe Manheim

Can the Holocaust Survive As A Universal Metaphor?

The controversy surrounding the Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies’ recent seminar, “Nakba and Holocaust as Cultural Traumas,”...

14.05.2026 60

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Moshe Manheim

Israel’s Constitutional Question Never Really Went Away

Israel’s recurring political crises are often discussed as clashes of ideology, personality, or policy. But beneath those battles lies a deeper...

10.05.2026 70

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What Would You Have Israel Do?

Since October 7, the conflict involving Israel, the United States, and Iran has generated no shortage of commentary and concern. It has also generated...

01.05.2026 50

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Moshe Manheim

When “All You Need Is Love” Meets Reality

For much of the postwar era, the West operated on a quiet but powerful assumption: that shared humanity would, over time, bridge even the deepest...

26.04.2026 60

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Moshe Manheim

When ‘Defense’ Means Absorbing Fire

In recent debates over military aid to Israel, a new distinction has taken hold: support for defense, but not for offense. At first glance, it sounds...

21.04.2026 50

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Moshe Manheim

The Toxic Cocktail Blinding the West

This article was posted on the JNS website on April 12, 2026: The Toxic Cocktail Blinding the West By Moshe R. Manheim The criticism of the war...

13.04.2026 60

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Moshe Manheim

Why Jews Fly into a War Zone

In the middle of a war, friends from the United States—hoping to spend Passover with their daughter in Israel—scramble through the gauntlet of...

29.03.2026 100

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Moshe Manheim

When Accusations Become Proof

The Psychology of Accusation: Projective Identification and the War Over Israel Socrates warned that “the unexamined life is not worth living.”...

15.03.2026 70

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Moshe Manheim

Purim Under Persian Fire: A Moment of V’nahafoch Hu

Every year on Purim I listen for the same word near the end of the Megillah. It comes tumbling out almost casually — v’nahafoch hu — “and it...

06.03.2026 90

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When Social Work Applies Its Ethics Selectively

I joined the National Association of Social Workers soon after receiving my MSW in the early 1980s. It was an organization whose values I believed in:...

16.02.2026 350

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Moshe Manheim

US Social Work’s Antisemitism Blind Spot When Silence Becomes Complicity

05.11.2025 70

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Moshe Manheim