Analysis
Sunday, October 2nd 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Jeff Robbins Creators, Sept. 27, 2022 “Instead of acknowledging “Burlington, we’ve got a problem,” UVM’s president responded with a statement at once inane and threatening, warning darkly that the investigation would hurt Jewish students.” The facts at the core of the current antisemitism scandal at the University of Vermont don’t seem especially disputable, and […]
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Kenneth L. Marcus The Hill, Sept. 1, 2022 “Lhamon’s message is important, and not only to reassure the Jewish community that she gets the problem. It is especially important for its true audience, which is the higher education community.” Days ago, the U.S. Education Department’s civil rights office, OCR, resolved a major anti-Semitism case at Kyrene School […]
Nate Hoffman National Review, Sept. 29, 2022 “It turns out that, when elite law schools like Yale teach their students that there are no consequences to their intolerance and illiberalism, the message sticks with them.” Judge James C. Ho of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit announced Thursday that he […]
Kenneth L. Marcus Jewish Journal, Sept. 28, 2022 “… the exclusionary bylaws operate like racially restrictive covenants, precluding minority participation into perpetuity.” If it wasn’t so frightening, one might be able to recognize the irony in the sight of campus progressives trying so hard to signal progressive virtue that they fall victim […]
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Friday, September 16th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Gilgal: YHWH’s Footprints in the Land of Israel: Zvi Koenigsberg, The Torah.com, Sept. 4, 2020 — In Deuteronomy 11, Moses tells the Israelites that when they cross over into the Cisjordan, they should head to the area of Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal. New York State vs. the Yeshivas: Eli Spitzer, Mosaic Magazine, Oct. 25, […]
Eliza Shapiro and Brian M. Rosenthal NY Times, Sept. 12, 2022 “For many Hasidic people, their schools are succeeding — just not according to the standards set by the outside world. In a community that places religion at the center of daily life, secular education is often viewed as unnecessary, or even distracting.” […]
Rabbi Avi Shafran Religion News Service, Sept. 13, 2022 “The critical thinking, textual analysis, reading comprehension, argumentation skills; the historical knowledge, the foreign language acquisition, the legal concepts; indeed, the Jewish culture, tradition, and ethical behavior … embedded in these schools’ religious study are genuinely remarkable.” The flyers in the synagogues in my […]
Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, Sept. 12, 2022 “As much as it would be easy to dismiss the story, if test scores and reports from other sources, including from Jews who are deeply worried about the failure of this system to prepare its students for any sort of a productive life other than Torah scholarship—are to be […]
Jay Greene and Jason Bedrick The Daily Signal, Sept. 9, 2022 “Given rising rates of depression, aimlessness, drug abuse, self-mutilation, and suicide among young people in modern society, it’s easy to understand why so many Americans hew much closer to the yeshiva view of education than that of the ruling elites.” The New […]
Monday, August 1st 2022 / Saturday, November 4th 2023
Joel Kotkin UnHerd, July 15, 2022 “Upwards of 40% of recent college graduates have jobs that don’t require a degree at all. In 2018, half of all college grads made under $30,000 annually, and another recent study suggests that most underemployed graduates remain that way permanently.” With inflation soaring, trust in governments plummeting, and the […]
George F. Will Washington Post, July 8, 2022 “A teacher would not be a “sage on the stage” but a “guide on the side,” with students “taking ownership” of their education.” Time was, conscientious parents fretted about “summer learning loss.” Now, when much of what schools do subtracts from understanding, summer could at least […]
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