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Friday, July 12th 2024 / Friday, July 12th 2024
SHABBAT READING Moses Strikes the Rock: His Sin Depends on Your Worldview: Prof. Haim (Howard) Kreisel, The Torah.com, June 21, 2023 — Commentators read the Bible closely to make sense of problematic passages. Nevertheless, their explanations are rarely purely textual, but reflect their own ideologies. A parade example is determining the precise sin of Moses and […]
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Friday, July 12th 2024
Batya Ungar-Sargon Spiked, June 26, 2024 “Like most of America’s cultural battles, this one is a class battle in disguise. It’s a symptom of a much larger divide in the US between an over-credentialed elite and America’s working class.” New York has handed a stinging defeat to congressman Jamaal Bowman, a member of the ‘Squad’ […]
Alan Rosenbaum Jerusalem Post, July 4, 2024 “We’re talking to those who don’t know anything, or a lot about Israel, who don’t hate it or love it.” ‘Most teens and young people in the United States don’t know a lot about Israel,” says Elena Yacov, executive director and president of TalkIsrael, the US- and Israel-based […]
Tuesday, July 9th 2024
FOLLOW THE MONEY FIRST READING: U.S. Probes Provide Clues to Where Canada’s Anti-Israel Money Is Coming From: Tristin Hopper, National Post, June 5, 2024 — A series of U.S. probes into anti-Israel funding streams is providing early clues into the financing and organization underlying Canada’s own network of “pro-Palestinian” encampments, protests and blockades. Opinion: Court’s Dismissal of […]
Tuesday, July 9th 2024 / Tuesday, July 9th 2024
Avi Benlolo and Jerry Grafstein National Post, July 5, 2024 “Given that Jews face a disproportionate amount of hate, the way this judgment dismissed claims of antisemitism is highly concerning.” Despite being among its biggest supporters, the Jewish community often finds itself on the losing side when it comes to the University of Toronto. […]
Thursday, June 20th 2024 / Thursday, June 20th 2024
MUCH HEAT, AND SOME LIGHT WATCH: Munk Debate on Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism | Douglas Murray Vs Mehdi Hasan | 2024: Roaming Soren, YouTube, June 18, 2024 — Munk Dialogue with Douglas Murray, Natasha Hausdorff, Mehdi Hasan & Gideon Levy: Is anti-Zionism antisemitism? Hub Dialogues: Douglas Murray, Natasha Hausdorff, Mehdi Hasan and Gideon Levy on Whether Anti-Zionism […]
Karen Glaser The JC, Mar. 2, 2023 “From the get-go I felt it was my duty to explain the context and provide the content they didn’t have.” Natasha Hausdorff’s debut radio broadcast was during the Israel-Gaza conflict in 2014. She’d been invited onto Nick Ferrari’s breakfast show on LBC to debate Israel’s military operation codenamed […]
Melanie Phillips Substack, June 19, 2024 “And as also usually happens at such events, these two anti-Zionists promulgated distortions, falsehoods and blood libels to demonise Israel and its supporters.” Two days ago, a gripping debate took place in Toronto. The latest in the Munk Debates on major policy issues run by a Canadian charitable […]
Douglas Murray The Spectator, Apr. 29, 2024 “I am afraid that it is the nature of anti-Semitism that it is ineradicable. It can be subdued, and it can be called out, but it cannot be ended ‘once and for all’” One of the best ways to work out that somebody has not thought deeply about […]
Tuesday, June 4th 2024
ALONE The Soil Beneath the Encampments: How Israel and Jews Became the Focus of Hate at Harvard: The Harvard Jewish Alumni Alliance (HJAA), May 2024 – Through conversations with 42 Jewish students, we learned that they had been systematically targeted and excluded not only by other students but also within classrooms and by professors. Every […]
Tuesday, June 4th 2024 / Tuesday, June 4th 2024
Charlie Covit WSJ, May 16, 2024 “Support for Mr. Tettey-Tamaklo belies the protesters’ denials of antisemitism.” Harvard’s anti-Israel protesters created a martyr this past school year. “Reinstate Elom to his proctor position,” read a list of demands first published in November and posted across campus for the rest of the year. “Over 4,000 people have […]
Douglas Belkin WSJ, May 16, 2024 “The report paints a picture of an overwhelmed and indecisive administration, which failed to apply university rules to protesters engaged in antisemitic behavior.” Harvard University was slow to react to a wave of hostility against Jewish students last fall and ignored recommendations from an advisory group it created to address rising […]
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