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Monday, December 11th 2023 / Sunday, December 10th 2023

Emily Jashinsky The Federalist, Dec. 7, 2023 “… if Ackman and Larry Summers and the many left-of-center voices who’ve rightfully expressed grave concerns since Oct. 7 are serious about solving the problem, they may need to take stock of their own values.” Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman weighed in on the question of campus antisemitism […]

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Monday, December 11th 2023 / Sunday, December 10th 2023

Editorial Board Chicago Tribune Yahoo News, Dec. 7, 2023 “Even those sympathetic to the presidents Tuesday knew in their heart of hearts that these elite campuses had not protected free speech in recent years so much as safeguarded progressive speech that they liked for their own ideological reasons, often using “safety” as a cover.” On Tuesday, Elise […]

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Monday, December 11th 2023 / Sunday, December 10th 2023

Heather MacDonald WSJ, Dec. 6, 2023 “The real issue on campuses isn’t antisemitism but the anti-Western ethos that has colonized large swaths of the curriculum.” Tuesday’s House hearing on campus antisemitism ratcheted up the pressure on American universities: counter the anti-Israel vitriol that exploded in the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack or risk losing philanthropic […]

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Monday, December 11th 2023 / Sunday, December 10th 2023

Victor Davis Hanson Real Clear Politics, Dec. 8, 2023 “Huge numbers of students have entered universities, who would not have been admitted by the very standards universities until recently claimed were vital to ensure their own competitiveness and prestige. Consequently, they are no longer the guarantors of topflight undergraduates and professionals from their graduate programs.” […]

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Friday, December 8th 2023 / Friday, December 8th 2023

Hanukkah as the Messy Middle:  Elana Stein Hein, Times of Israel, Dec. 7, 2023 The Meaning of the Menorah:  Seth Mandel, Commentary Magazine, Dec. 7, 2023 The Battle Cry of Hanukkah:  Arynne Wexler, Tablet, Dec. 5, 2023 The Self-delusion of Secular Jews:  David Mamet, Unherd, Dec. 7, 2023 _______________________________________________________ FOR FURTHER REFERENCE: Hanukkah Celebrations Are Being Cancelled Due to […]

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Friday, December 8th 2023

Arynne Wexler Tablet, Dec. 5, 2023 “The story of the Maccabees is one of defiance and anti-assimilation. It’s about hard-as-nails Jews who fight for survival. It’s time we bring that back.” I hate Hanukkah. Wait, let me revise that. I hate what Hanukkah has become. A minor holiday in Israel, Hanukkah is often the one […]

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Friday, December 8th 2023

Seth Mandel Commentary Magazine, Dec. 7, 2023 “No menorah lighting because Shirley Vermillion and her festival don’t want to give the impression that they support killing children—and having a Jewish ceremony would, in her eyes, do exactly that.”   Nothing crystallizes the inseparability of Judaism from the state of Israel quite like efforts to ban […]

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Friday, December 8th 2023 / Friday, December 8th 2023

Elana Stein Heinpower Times of Israel, Dec. 7, 2023 “What bound all of these Jews together was more powerful than what divided  them.”   Hanukkah reminds us that miracles are possible and that seemingly unwinnable wars can be won. But it also holds lessons about partial victories, imperfect heroes, and incomplete belonging. We tell the story […]

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Friday, December 8th 2023

David Mamet Unherd, Dec. 7, 2023 “Western Jews have traditionally voted for liberalism, … We support the United Nations, a Potemkin village of remittance men hired to denounce Israel, and we elect politicians who kowtow to murderous antisemites. We send our children to elite universities, which teach antisemitism and support anti-Jewish demonstrations, and then advise […]

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Thursday, December 7th 2023 / Thursday, December 7th 2023

OUTRIGHT LIES University Presidents’ Abhorrent Hypocrisy on Anti-Jewish Speech:  The Editors, National Review, Dec. 6, 2023 — All of a sudden, America’s elite universities have started to sound like John Stuart Mill. Asked yesterday by Representative Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) whether students who call for “intifada” or shout “from the river to the sea” were acting “contrary to […]

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Thursday, December 7th 2023 / Thursday, December 7th 2023

Andrew C. McCarthy National Review, Nov. 25, 2023 “The Brotherhood is a movement that sprang from universities and has always catalyzed campus radicalism.”   After the jihadist barbarities of October 7, Israel responded with aerial bombardments of Hamas havens in Gaza, in preparation for the now-ongoing ground invasion. As the bombs fell, Hamas heavyweight Mousa Abu […]

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Thursday, December 7th 2023 / Thursday, December 7th 2023

Roger Kimball The Spectator, Nov. 14, 2023 ‘The real change, if it comes, will be the loss of widely shared social legitimacy that this revolution-by-major-donors may precipitate.” Maybe there is something for which we have to thank Hamas after all. That savage terror group epitomizes the latest form of murderous, antisemitic brutality. The world — […]