Haaretz: “Why Barack Obama’s win is ‘good’ for the Jews”

Aaron Keyak — November 12, 2008 – 3:48 pm | Barack Obama | Election 2008 | Israel Comments (0) Add a comment

Today, Carlo Strenger wrote a piece in Haaretz titled, "Why Barack Obama's win is 'good' for the Jews." Strenger, a philosopher and psychoanalyst, is professor of psychology at Tel Aviv University, as well as a member of the Permanent Monitoring Panel on Terrorism of the World Federation of Scientists.

Here's an excerpt.

[B]ecause Obama's election is a triumph of universalism over chauvinism, and because we Jews owe so much to the universalist idea, we should rejoice. It has been part of Jewish heritage, especially in the Diaspora, which is the longest period of Jewish history, to rise over immediate reality, and to see the realm of ideas and principles. It is on behalf of this realm that, before returning to the management of our daily affairs, we should pause and see the greatness of this moment.

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