{"id":31512,"date":"2024-02-07T14:11:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T14:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/?post_type=news&#038;p=31512"},"modified":"2024-03-19T12:55:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T12:55:53","slug":"director-of-onos-ethiopian-center-lectures-at-the-business-school","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/news\/director-of-onos-ethiopian-center-lectures-at-the-business-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Director of Ono\u2019s Ethiopian Center Lectures at the Business School"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\r\n<h3>Director of Ono\u2019s Ethiopian Center Lectures at the Business School<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>As part of efforts to integrate the study of Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jewry) into all of Ono\u2019s various programs, Rabbi Dr. Sharon Shalom, founder and director of Ono Academic College\u2019s International Center for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry, presented a lecture entitled \u201cIsraeli society, between recognition and alienation, between identification and identity &#8211; a case study of the Ethiopian community\u201d to the faculty of the Business School.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Rabbi Dr. Shalom opened his remarks, noting that he cannot ignore the fact that since October 7<sup>th<\/sup>, the Jewish people have been going through difficult times. Shalom serves as a casualty notification officer and in this context he said that, personally, he has had to go through very difficult experiences. However, he remembers that when he asked his grandfather in Ethiopia when would they be immigrating to Jerusalem, he would answer &#8220;tomorrow morning&#8221;. Even though they didn&#8217;t go up to Jerusalem, \u201ctomorrow morning,\u201d in the end they made it to Israel. This teaches that, pace Nietzsche, \u00a0hope is not an illusion. Hope is a very basic thing for the Jewish people and for Beta Israel, the Ethiopian community, in particular.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The starting point of Rabbi Dr. Shalom\u2019s lecture was the fact that many painful societal errors (including the sympathy expressed for Hamas by many populations around the world following the events of 7.10) stem from confusion between \u201crecognition and alienation\u201d on the one hand, and \u201cidentification and identity\u201d on the other.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Prof. Avi Sagi distinguishes between \u201cidentification,\u201d which refers to the way others perceive me, and \u201cidentity,\u201d which is my personal life story.\u00a0 This corresponds to Kahneman&#8217;s System 1 which deals with \u201cidentification,\u201d while System 2 deals with identity. Rabbi Sharon brought other examples of this dichotomy from many disciplines including Dr. Melanie Klein\u2019s application to psychotherapy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Rabbi Dr. Shalom noted that while both systems are critical, human society, including Israeli society, sometimes remains in the state of \u201cidentification\u201d without reaching the state of \u201cidentity.\u201d This phenomenon causes \u201calienation\u201d instead of \u201crecognition.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Rabbi Dr. Shalom concluded saying that at Ono, he is happy to have \u00a0found a place that understands the importance of identification and insists on reaching identification as well. This creates recognition and not alienation. On this basis he founded the International Center for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry.\u00a0 Rabbi Dr. Shalom said he looks forward to cooperating with the Business School on a multitude of topics in the future.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-31513 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/02\/Sharon-Business-School-1.24.jpg\" alt=\"Rabbi Sharon Shalom\" width=\"608\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/02\/Sharon-Business-School-1.24.jpg 608w, https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/02\/Sharon-Business-School-1.24-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director of Ono\u2019s Ethiopian Center Lectures at the Business School As part of efforts to integrate the study of Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jewry) into all of Ono\u2019s various programs, Rabbi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":31513,"menu_order":247,"template":"","class_list":["post-31512","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categories_news-updates_news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}