How Trump Made Dr. Ruth Break Her Political Silence: ‘It’s So Sad What’s Happening’
he world-renowned sex therapist opens up to Marlow Stern about her new documentary ‘Ask Dr. Ruth’ and why she’s finally ready to talk politics.
Marlow Stern
Senior Entertainment Editor
Published 06.09.19 4:46 AM ET
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The most powerful scene of the film sees Dr. Ruth visit Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, Israel, and look up her parents in the Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names, where four a half of the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis have been catalogued. She discovers that her father perished at Auschwitz; her mother’s cause of death, on the other hand, is unknown.
And therein lies the reason why Dr. Ruth agreed to partake in this deeply personal documentary, which took up a year and a half of her life: never again. She was horrified by the images she saw on the news, of refugee children separated from their parents and placed in cages by the Trump administration—images that recalled her own past in Nazi Germany—and vowed to no longer be silent, breaking her self-imposed life-long ban on discussing politics publicly.
“I don’t talk about politics—except these days, I’ve changed my mind,” she says. “I do stand up to express how upset I am when I see children being separated from their parents—because that’s my story, of my life—and also how upset I am about the issue of abortion and the issue of family planning, because that is what I worked on my entire professional life. In a sense it all fits together, and it permits me to state my philosophy.”
“I am on the board of the Museum of Jewish Heritage, and right now we have an exhibit about Auschwitz that came from Spain. It’s called: Auschwitz: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away. It’s an exceptional exhibit,” Dr. Ruth continues. “I learned a great deal about the history of anti-Semitism, and some of the sad lessons that people did not listen to and did not adhere to about the rise of anti-Semitism. I would never have dreamt that I would live in this country and that we would see swastikas painted at the door of a psychology professor at Columbia University. That’s why people like you and me have to stand up, and speak out.”
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