The Sound (of Prayer) and the Fury: Daniel Gordis, Israel from the Inside, Oct. 13, 2023 — We’ll start with the mood in Israel. We’ll go on to a project that people can support if they’d like to help Israelis who have lost everything. A dog story. And we’ll end with a prayer now being recited all over the world.
SHABBAT READING
Speech at ‘Closer to Israel’ at Trafalgar Square: Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, The Rabbi Sacks Legacy, June 2, 2013 — In July 1938 leaders of 32 nations gathered in the French spa town of Evian knowing that something terrible was going to happen to the Jews, knowing that unless they did something a tragedy would unfold that would exceed all the twenty centuries of antisemitism put together. And one by one, without exception, the nations of the world closed their doors. At that moment the Jewish people knew that on all the vast surface of this planet there was not one square inch they could call home in the sense given by Robert Frost as the place where, when you have to go there, they have to let you in. …
CONSEQUENCES
Billionaire Ackman, Others Pledge They Won’t Hire Harvard Students Who Signed Letter Blaming Israel for Hamas Attack: Brian Bushard, Forbes, Oct. 10, 2023 — Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman on Tuesday roundly objected to a controversial statement from a group of Harvard University student organizations solely blaming Israel’s occupation of Gaza for Hamas’ weekend attack on Israel, calling for the names of the students to be released in an effort not to hire them.
Campus Cowardice and Where the Buck Stops: Bari Weiss, The Free Press, Oct. 12, 2023 — American universities are places of exquisite sensitivity. Just ask Greg Patton. Patton is a USC professor who was suspended from his job a few years ago because he said a Chinese word—a filler word, like the word uh—that happened to sound like an English slur.
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University Donors, Close Your Checkbooks: Marc Rowan, The Free Press, Oct. 11, 2023
Harvard Student Groups’ Pro-Palestinian-Statement Debacle Gets Even Worse: Jeffrey Blehar, National Review, Oct. 11, 2023
Harvard Shrugs at Jew-Hatred: J.J. Kimche, WSJ, Oct. 10, 2023
American Academia’s Hate for Israel and Love Affair with Iran: Ian Oxnevad, Minding the Campus, Oct. 12, 2023
FOR FURTHER REFERENCE:
This Is What ‘Decolonization’ Looks Like: Peter Savodnik, The Free Press, Oct. 9, 2023 — On Saturday, as the raping and murdering and kidnapping were happening in Israel, Najma Sharif, a writer for Soho House magazine and Teen Vogue, posted on X: “What did y’all think decolonization meant? vibes? papers? essays? losers.”
‘By Any Means Necessary’: Anti-Zionist College Students Cheer Hamas Massacre of Israelis: Dion J. Pierre, Algemeiner, Oct. 9, 2023 — Across the US, dozens of college student groups declared solidarity with Hamas on Sunday, cheering the Palestinian terrorist group one day after it invaded Israel from its enclave in Gaza and murdered hundreds of Israelis and took dozens more captive in a shocking surprise attack.
Dems Silent as House Republicans Urge Education Department to Protect Jews on Campus: Zach Kessel, National Review, Oct. 12, 2023 — A group of 44 House Republicans sent a letter to Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona urging the federal agency to protect Jewish college students in light of Thursday’s “national day of resistance,” organized by the national leadership of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
Israeli Student Assaulted at Columbia University after Posting Photos of Hamas Hostages: Abigail Anthony, National Review, Oct. 12, 2023 — A 19-year-old female suspect allegedly assaulted a 24-year-old Israeli student in the School of General Studies at Columbia University on Wednesday evening after tearing down photos of Israeli hostages that had been posted by the victim.
