I suffer from a unique form of schizophrenia: hatred of the Olympics and respect for the athletes. There are many causes for my Olympic malady: religious and racial bigotry, dictatorial hypocrisy, doping of athletes, ugly nationalism, and indifference to human rights.
(Rabbi Rudin, the American Jewish Committee’s senior interreligious adviser, is the author of “The Baptizing of America: The Religious Right’s Plans for the Rest of Us.”)
