Forgiveness pt.I

Professor Elliott Malamet, Dr Jackie Schiff, Jason Marantz and Maureen Kendler discuss the limits of forgiveness. Professor Malamet begins with the story of the 9 year old girl  burned in the Vietnam conflict who later publicly forgave John Plummer  one of the soldiers responsible for napalming her village.  This triggered a discussion of the appropriateness and boundaries of forgiveness- covering topics such as restorative justice programmes, Simon Wiesenthal’s  ethical challenges in  “The Sunflower” and an exploration of the  efficacy of forgiveness in the Torah story of Joseph.