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Tuesday, April 18th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Gil Troy WSJ, Apr. 14, 2023 “It was my good fortune to be born in this free and glorious country, where children may laugh and play and have real happiness.” Irwin envisioned “a world of liberty and justice” where “the homeless Jewish wanderers must be given the right to live the life of a free […]
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Tuesday, April 11th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
INCREASING TIES WATCH: Ruth Wisse Reflects on Anti-Semitism, the University, and American Society, Free as a Jew: Mosaic Magazine, Feb. 6, 2023 — In an in-depth discussion with Bari Weiss, drawn from her memoir Free as Jew (originally published in Mosaic), Ruth R. Wisse discusses her own remarkable life, the state of American Jewry today, the decline of America’s universities, the perils […]
Sheryl Abbey Jerusalem Post, Apr. 5, 2023 “Sometimes you need just one fate.” Wearing his trademark khakis, clogs and wide felt hat, artist Gunter Demnig angled out of his van and approached those of us gathered outside an old half-timbered house. Local historian Michael Schroeder stepped forward to greet him. “Yes, everything is in order,” he assured […]
Moshe Phillips Isranet, Mar. 30, 2023 “And We Are Not Saved” is at once a bitter, provocative, and emotional work. It is unlike any other Holocaust memoir in its scope, attitude, or conclusions.” As we approach the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising there can be no doubt that the mainstream media will […]
Samuel Rubinstein UnHerd, Mar. 9, 2023 “The problem with ‘Holocaust-as-civics-lesson’, like the problem of treating the collapse of Weimar Germany as a parable, is that it means that the Holocaust has to be ‘updated’ to reflect present political concerns.” It’s like clockwork. Every few months the government announces a new plan to tighten immigration […]
Ben Cohen JNS, Feb. 10, 2023 “… while antisemitic ideology isn’t very imaginative, it compensates for that weakness by being highly adaptive—able to reinvent its obsession with supposed Jewish malignancy in almost any situation and winning supporters accordingly.” In the world of Jewish advocacy, the “working definition” of antisemitism endorsed by the International Holocaust Remembrance […]
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 […]
Annette Poisoner Times of Israel, July 27, 2022 “We are learning about … students, forced to write papers that parrot the ideologies taught in school, finding themselves betraying their Jewish values or risk being mocked for expressing perspectives which differ from the school party line.” A recent study analyzes the Twitter feeds of 741 Diversity, Equity & […]
Dion J. Pierre Algemeiner, Feb. 27, 2023 “Further research is required to better understand the lived experience of these students, the stressors they face, and the extent of the problems such as those identified herein. This study continues. Students are invited to share their experiences while maintaining anonymity.” Antisemitism in Canadian social work […]
Richard Klagsbrun Aish, No Date “Students are in a vulnerable position and dread officially attaching their name to complaints against a professor in a program like Social Work. Aside from determining grades, they fear one bad word from a professor to a social agency can eliminate their employment prospects.” Picture the following: A […]
Thursday, February 2nd 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
“it is difficult for the Jewish community to take UofT’s apology for the school’s history of antisemitism seriously at the same time that the university is timorous in combating antisemitism among the TFOM faculty – as exemplified by a letter, signed by 45 faculty members, the minority of whom are Jewish, sent to the UofT’s […]
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