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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
Monday, March 27th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Tal Fortgang National Review, Mar. 22, 2023 “When did the Jewish tradition begin to embrace today’s notion of the “nonbinary,” and why is it news to the most devout Jews?” Not content to enlist their twisted understandings of to fight state laws protecting unborn children, progressive activists now have taken to claiming that Judaism’s “most sacred […]
Barbara Kay The Epoch Times, Feb. 20, 2023 “The portrait Reed paints reveals systemic willingness to sacrifice children’s health on the altar of gender mysticism.” Three utopian projects obsess the left: environmentalism, racism, and androgyny. Climate affects us all, racism affects millions of us, but genuine gender dysphoria is extremely rare. And yet the obsession […]
Stuart Kyle Duncan WSJ, Mar. 17, 2023 “Whereupon Ms. Steinbach opened a folio, took out a printed sheaf of papers, and delivered a six-minute speech addressing the question: “Is the juice worth the squeeze?”” Stanford Law School’s website touts its “collegial culture” in which “collaboration and the open exchange of ideas are essential to life and learning.” […]
Daniel McCarthy NY Post, Mar. 12, 2023 “The capture of American higher education by students and administrators with a Maoist mentality has caused a great deal of soul-searching among moderates and conservatives.” A university president never enjoys being forced to apologize, especially to a conservative. But on Saturday that’s what Stanford’s president, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, had to […]
Friday, March 3rd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Shabbat reading: The Torah Is Sanctioned by God: In the Footsteps of the Abravanel: Rabbi Avi Weiss, The Torah.com, Feb. 9, 2023 — The Book of Deuteronomy poses a unique challenge for those who believe that God authored the Torah: It is presented as an address by Moses! This includes the book’s many laws, which […]
Annette Poizner, Stacey Love, Andria Spindel et al Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism, Feb. 3, 2023 “When the far left think they are “punching up” and “sticking it to the rich,” they are now mimicking the type of trope that motored barbaric antisemitism in the past and feeds into today’s target: people of white privilege.” Owing […]
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