Analysis
Tuesday, August 15th 2023 / Friday, November 3rd 2023
Cary Nelson Jewish Journal, Aug. 8, 2023 “When you also add “slavery, patriarchy, colonialism, orientalism, homophobia, ableism, capitalism” to the mix, as Larson does, declaring all these as things your course will righteously oppose, you turn critical and political theory into hogwash.” Jasbir Puar, the well-known Rutgers University Professor of Women’s Studies, has a […]
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Tammi Rossman-Benjamin Sapir Journal, Volume Ten Summer 2023 “As a practical matter, DEI programs limit their “equity” and “inclusion” efforts to certain identity groups, which rarely include Jews.” For more than a decade, Jewish students on American campuses have been targets of abusive conduct because of their support, or perceived support, for Israel. The […]
Seth Mandel Commentary Magazine, June 2023 “At George Washington University, anti-Semitic harassment is apparently now part of required course-work.” By every metric, American Jewish campus life is a shadow of what it once was. The City University of New York is losing the last two Jewish members of its 80-member senior leadership team—in the […]
Jerrod Tanny Jewish Journal, Aug. 9, 2023 “They want Zionist Jews to know their message is being received by anti-Zionist activists, politicians and the larger academic community: Israel is not kosher, there are good Jews and bad Jews, and we, the bad Jews, are tainted by the stain of Jewish supremacy; we are no better […]
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Tuesday, August 1st 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
The Fall of the Ivory Tower: American Education Is Failing: Everett Piper, Washington Times, July 23, 2023 American Anthropological Association Boycott of Israel will be to its Detriment – Opinion: Asaf Romirowsky, Jerusalem Post, July 30, 2023 Ethnic Studies Group Is Teaching Anti-Israel Hatred; Some School Districts Are Saying Yes: Max Samarov, Algemeiner, July 19, […]
Everett Piper Washington Times, July 23, 2023 “At this university, we will teach you to be selfless rather than self-centered. We are more interested in you practicing personal forgiveness than political revenge.” This past week, Gallup released a poll showing public confidence in American higher education is plummeting. A national survey conducted in June found that […]
Asaf Romirowsky Jerusalem Post, July 30, 2023 “… the AAA and MESA resolutions, for all their self-proclaimed morality, are the death cries of disciplines devoted to self-destruction.” In a widely predicted move, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) has now joined the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) in adopting a boycott of Israeli universities. It represents a […]
Max Samarov Algemeiner, July 19, 2023 “When Jews raised concerns and asked to be included as well, the districtresponded that, “Jewish Studies and Israeli Studies are not part of the Ethnic Studies discipline.” In June 2023, the Hayward Unified School District (HUSD) in Northern California signed a contract worth over $90,000, with a group called the Liberated […]
Frieda Vizel Tablet, July 17, 2023 “It is an irony of the current debate that liberals who believe in strong social safety nets, who would balk at the assertion that a person should be judged by their wealth or career attainment, and who once celebrated the maxim made famous by Hillary Clinton, ‘It takes a […]
Friday, July 7th 2023 / Wednesday, November 1st 2023
SHABBAT READING Is Atonement Possible Without Blood? A Jewish-Christian Divide: Prof. Marc Zvi Brettler and Prof. Amy-Jill Levine, The Torah.com, July 1, 2021 — Many Jews find odd the Christian belief that the blood of Jesus atones for people’s sins. At the same time, many Christians believe that Jews have no means for achieving […]
Friday, June 23rd 2023 / Saturday, November 4th 2023
SHABBAT READING Korah Took…: Prof. Haim (Howard) Kreisel, The Torah.com, June 22, 2023 — After the punishment of the wilderness generation for the sin of the scouts, Korah, a Levite, leads a group of people in an uprising against Moses.[1] Their complaint seems straightforward and reasonable: במדבר טז:ג וַיִּקָּהֲלוּ עַל מֹשֶׁה וְעַל אַהֲרֹן וַיֹּאמְרוּ אֲלֵהֶם רַב לָכֶם […]
Matthew Kassel Jewish Insider, June 1, 2023 “KC Johnson, a professor of American history at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, believes the strategy “left unresolved” whether Biden officials are “willing to confront hardline critics of Israel whose words or actions stray into antisemitism.” The administration now has “an example of this,” Johnson told […]
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