Analysis
Thursday, March 9th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Douglas Altabef Israel National News, Feb 26, 2023 “It is this take no prisoners attitude that makes the protesters’ professed obsession with the preservation of a liberal democracy seem like an Orwellian projection.” One need not be a film director nor a dance choreographer to notice that the wave of protests against proposed judicial […]
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Thursday, March 9th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Michael B. Mukasey WSJ, Feb. 26, 2023 “in view of the court’s sweeping self-imposed authority, it is difficult at times to describe the current condition as the rule of law.” Judges and attorneys general throughout the world—I’ve served in both capacities in the U.S.—wield substantial authority. In any sound legal system, such authority is subject […]
Caroline Glick Newsweek, Mar. 2, 2023 “The Netanyahu government’s program for judicial reform is astounding for its modesty. If passed in full, it will simply realign Israel’s currently unchecked judiciary with the checked judiciaries of the vast majority of Western democracies.” In Israel as in states throughout the Western world, the political Left is an ecosystem […]
David Isaac JNS, Mar. 7, 2023 “Contrary to the claims of its opponents, who say that it will strip Israel of its checks and balances, judicial reform will restore the checks and balances that have been stripped away by a court system that has arrogated powers beyond its purview.” Justice Minister Yariv Levin, in […]
Monday, March 6th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Meir Y. Soloveitchik Commentary Magazine, March 2020 “What is Mordecai’s true identity? What is Esther’s?” The biblical Book of Esther and Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice are opposites. One describes the Jewish triumph over anti-Semitism, the other the anti-Semite’s triumph over the Jew. Yet there are similarities between the two tales. Both emphasize inversions, a turning […]
Rokhl Kafrissen Tablet, Feb. 28, 2023 “It’s hard to imagine what it would have been like, not only to have been a child watching the Holocaust unfold from afar, but immediately thereafter, watching the perilous fight for a Jewish state, surrounded, as this text makes clear, by yet more enemies, more Hamans, intent […]
Monday, March 6th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Meir Soloveitchik NY Times, Mar. 8, 2020 “Precisely because of the constancy of Jewish vulnerability, we glorify Esther’s initiative, courage, and wisdom to inculcate these same virtues in our posterity.” A perplexing paradox lies at the heart of Purim, the holiday celebrated this week by Jews around the world. No day is more […]
Rabbi Ari Kahn Orthodox Union, Mar. 20, 2019 “The profile of Achashverosh that emerges is of a weak personality tormented by the objects of his own desire.” Working in the barn from the break of dawn was exhausting. Cleaning the barn, sweeping the refuse, and caring for the horses had become his […]
Friday, March 3rd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Annette Poizner, Stacey Love, Andria Spindel et al Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism, Feb. 3, 2023 “When the far left think they are “punching up” and “sticking it to the rich,” they are now mimicking the type of trope that motored barbaric antisemitism in the past and feeds into today’s target: people of white privilege.” Owing […]
Annette Poisoner Times of Israel, July 27, 2022 “We are learning about … students, forced to write papers that parrot the ideologies taught in school, finding themselves betraying their Jewish values or risk being mocked for expressing perspectives which differ from the school party line.” A recent study analyzes the Twitter feeds of 741 Diversity, Equity & […]
Dion J. Pierre Algemeiner, Feb. 27, 2023 “Further research is required to better understand the lived experience of these students, the stressors they face, and the extent of the problems such as those identified herein. This study continues. Students are invited to share their experiences while maintaining anonymity.” Antisemitism in Canadian social work […]
Richard Klagsbrun Aish, No Date “Students are in a vulnerable position and dread officially attaching their name to complaints against a professor in a program like Social Work. Aside from determining grades, they fear one bad word from a professor to a social agency can eliminate their employment prospects.” Picture the following: A […]
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