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Published: May 4, 2021, 6:17 p.m.

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 As a preamble to the discussion, Professor Juni outlines the politics of autonomous Haredi functioning in Israeli government policy. The general attitude of Israeli agencies has been to leave Haredim to their own devices even as they suffer from the negative repercussions. This manifest, as well, in the benign neglect of dangerous violations of Covid regulations by Haredim, which persisted for a while, until they were perceived as endangering the population at large .Juni summarizes in non-scientific terms the technical aspects of danger that persist in the pandemic even in populations with widespread immunization program, specifically highlighting mutational dangers among the non-vaccinated which can break the vaccination barrier to endanger the entire population. 

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  The main focus of the discussion is the Meron phenomenon, which centers on visiting Graves of Saints, and also branches out to visiting graves of beloved family members. Many of these visitors relate to the deceased and interact with them as if they were still with us. Prodded by Rabbi Kivelevitz, Juni shares his own bifurcated style of functioning, where he conducts his general life based on rational considerations yet visits his parents\\u2019 graves and relates to them on the level of emotionally childish logic \\u2013 \\u2013 as he carries on one-side of conversations with them. While the notion of visiting graves is suggested to be a pagan in origin, Kivelevitz sees the recent huge and unsafe Meron pilgrimage as a cathartic reaction to the easing down of the long Covid lockdown. He also suggests that relating to loved ones who have passed on is a way of a allaying the existential terror of death which we all face by acting as if the after-life is a given. 

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  Analyzing the general Israeli reaction to the Meron tragedy, the discussants analyze the nature of the profound vilification of Haredim by the Israeli public. The reciprocal condemnation by Haredim of all \\u201cothers\\u201d is posited to entail a circling the wagons, and is especially designed to minimize the allure of the secular world to Haredi youth. Resulting in the total alienation of Haredim from the social milieu, this essentially means that the chances of outsiders choosing the Haredi way of life are minimalist. R. Kivelevitz suggests that the template of positive positively oriented PR which has been used successfully by the gay movement and the woke culture to gain general acceptance might be utilized \\u2013 \\u2013 in the style of Chabad and Rabbi Sacks \\u2013 \\u2013 to present any more attractive picture of the virtues of Haredi life by those engaged in positive outreach efforts
 

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Doctor Samuel Juni is one of the foremost research psychologists in the world today. He has published groundbreaking original research in seventy different peer reviewed journals, and is cited continuously with respect by colleagues and experts in the field who have built on his theories and observations. Samuel Juni studied in Yeshivas Chaim Berlin under Rav Yitzchack Hutner, and in Yeshiva University as a Talmid of Rav Joseph Dov Soloveitchick. Professor Juni is a prominent member of the Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists, and has regularly presented addresses to captivated audiences. Associated with NYU since 1979, Juni has served as Director of MA and PhD programs, all the while heading teams engaged in important research. Professor Juni\'s scholarship on aberrant behavior across the cultural, ethnic, and religious spectrum is founded on psychometric methodology and based on a psycho-dynamic psychopathology perspective. He is arguably the preeminent expert in Differential Diagnostics, with each of his myriad studies entailing parallel efforts in theory construction and empirical data collection from normative and clinical populations. Professor Juni created and directed NYU\'s Graduate Program in Tel Aviv titled Cross-Cultural Group Dynamics in Stressful Environments. Based in Yerushalayim, he collaborates with Israeli academic and mental health specialists in the study of dissonant factors and tensions in the Arab-Israeli conflict and those within the Orthodox Jewish community, while exploring personality challenges of second-generation Holocaust survivors. Below is a partial list of the journals to which Professor Juni has contributed over 120 articles. Many are available on line Journal of Forensic Psychology Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma. International Review of Victimology The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease International Forum of Psychoanalysis Journal of Personality Assessment Journal of Abnormal Psychology Journal of Psychoanalytic Anthropology Psychophysiology Psychology and Human Development Journal of Sex Research Journal of Psychology and Judaism Contemporary Family Therapy American Journal on Addictions Journal of Criminal Psychology Mental Health, Religion & Culture As Rosh Beis Medrash, Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz serves as Rav and Posek for the morning minyan at IDT. Hundreds of listeners around the globe look forward to his weekly Shiur in Tshuvos and Poskim. Rav Kivelevitz is a Maggid Shiur for Dirshu International in Talmud and Halacha as well as a Dayan with the Beth Din of America. Please leave us a review or email us at ravkiv@gmail.com 

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