Analysis
Tuesday, August 15th 2023 / Friday, November 3rd 2023
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 […]
Armin Rosen Tablet, July 1, 2022 ‘It is not a stretch to wonder if a pro-Zionist diversity bureaucrat is an ideological contradiction in terms.” Of all the signs that the Jewish community’s political influence has waned in New York City, perhaps none has been as stark as the City University of New York’s frequent […]
Benjamin Kerstein JNS, June 5, 2023 “CUNY’s systemic antisemitism has been a problem for the better part of a decade, and up to now, no one did a thing about it.” It was the devout hope of many of us in the trenches that, sooner or later, the City University of New York (CUNY) […]
Rebecca Roiphe Sapir Journal, Volume Six Summer 2022 “The lecture halls in our law schools are now filled with professors and students who believe these things. In their view, the profession is no longer an essential gatekeeper of the rule of law, a key component of the American founding. Instead, it’s a part of the […]
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