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Daily Briefing: THE NEW ACADEMIC YEAR HAS BEGUN: WHAT CAN STUDENTS EXPECT?

SHAI DAVIDAI SPEAKS OUT! Upstate NY Imam Encourages Columbia Students to ‘Take Out’ Pro-Israel Professor:  Doree Lewak, Algemeiner, Aug. 31, 2024 — An upstate imam urged student activists to “take out” an outspoken, pro-Israel Columbia University professor who’s returning to the embattled Ivy this fall after a year of antisemitic hate. WATCH:  How Columbia University […]

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UCLA Failed Jewish Students Like Me

Yitzy Frankel Real Clear Education, Sept. 6, 2024 “UCLA leadership—those entrusted to ensure the safety of students—told campus police to stand down, ceding control over public university property to antisemitic militants. The entire experience would have made Orwell blush.” When I chose to attend UCLA, I never thought I’d be segregated from my peers for […]

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Get Ready for Another Semester of the Tentifada 

Asaf Romirowsky The Hill, Aug. 30, 2024 “Plainly put, Columbia did nothing to stop the riots in the first place. And once the rioters had been arrested and charged, it was quick to let them off with a just slap on the wrist.” It’s late August. For those of us in higher education, this means […]

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U.S. Campuses: The ‘Taboo’ Ignored Pandemic of Muslim Jew-Hate

Andrew Bostom Gatestone Institute, Sept. 6, 2024 “The study authors concluded that although “a climate of universal anti-Jewish hatred” did not exist, Jewish student concerns about antisemitism were justified, and “driven by about a third of students who held distinct patterns of beliefs about Jews and Israel.”” The carnage of October 7, 2023 in southern Israel was […]

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When Students Become Terrorists

Eli Lake The Free Press, Sept. 7, 2024 “What leads a person to put down their placard and pick up a gun?” Last year, American universities exploded with protests over a war half a world away in Gaza. In solidarity with the perpetrators of October 7, keffiyeh-clad students covered campus grounds with “encampments,” took over […]

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Daily Briefing: ARE THE HOSTAGES REDEEMABLE?

  SHABBAT READING   Power from the Outside or Self-Restraint from Within:  Shoftim 5771, 5784 – The Rabbi Sacks Legacy — This summer, we’ve seen riots on the streets of London and Manchester on the one hand, Tripoli on the other. On the face of it there was nothing in common between them. In London the […]

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Hamas Murdered the Hostages, Not Benjamin Netanyahu

Naveh Dromi Ynet News, Sept. 3, 2024 “… at no point, from the first deal onward, were we ever close to signing an agreement for the hostages’ return. It was never on the table except in the fevered imaginations of a few who even the events of October 7 didn’t wake from their delusions.” Even […]

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A Hostage Deal Is a Poison Pill for Israel

Bret Stephens NY Times, Sept. 3, 2024 “Once Israel leaves Gaza, international pressure for it not to re-enter for nearly any reason short of another Oct. 7 will be overwhelming.” Since the days of Abraham — who, according to Genesis, rescued his nephew Lot after he’d been seized by an invading army — Jewish tradition has […]

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Bring Them Home’ Is Bringing Us to the Brink

Liel Leibovitz Tablet, Sept. 5, 2024 “#BringThemHomeNow demonstrates just how hollow and inflamed Israeli public discourse has become. To whom, exactly, is this exhortation addressed?” Tens of thousands of protesters were swarming the streets of Tel Aviv on Sunday, calling on all restaurants, bars, and shops to shutter in solidarity. Many did. Highway 4, the […]

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An Appeal to My Religious Zionist Brothers”

Jon Polin Israel from the Inside, Aug. 20, 2024 “There is war, there are reserves, there is Lebanon and there is Iran. The hostages? “It’s complicated,” and they choose not to speak.” Barely a few weeks into this war, back at the end of October or the beginning of November, we had most of our […]

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Communiqué: Otages exécutés: entre deuil et division

Citation de la semaine:   “Je vous demande pardon car nous n’avons pas pu les ramener vivants” Benjamin Netanyahu, Premier ministre d’Israël ***                                  Table des Matières   Israël : Une rentrée au goût de cendre: Myriam Shermer,  Tribune Juive, 2 […]

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Daily Briefing: HAS THE CABIN PRESSURE CHANGED FOR AMERICAN JEWS?

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As a Lifelong Jewish Democrat, It Pains Me to Say This.:  Future of Jewish, Aug. 29, 2024 The Complex Relationship Between Kamala Harris and American Jews – Opinion:  Douglas Altabef, Jerusalem Post, Sept. 3, 2024  Why Do US Jews Vote Democrat? Here are Six Theories – Opinion: Uzi Reshun, Jerusalem Post, Sept. 4, 2024 Will Biden Be the […]

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