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Category Archives: Jewish
Hebrew Hammer’ Ryan Braun retires from MLB after illustrious 14-year career
JTA Ryan Braun, former MVP and the all-time Jewish home run hitter, retires from Major League Baseball by Jacob Gurvis September 14, 2021 Ryan Braun, the Milwaukee Brewers outfielder who slugged more home runs than any Jewish player in baseball … Continue reading
“The ADL’s apology for its former director’s opposition to a Ground Zero mosque is one more way the anniversary is being used to change the narrative about the attack”
JNS The real lesson of 9/11 isn’t a story about Islamophobia by Jonathan Tobin September 10, 2021 One of the strangest aspects of post-9/11 America has been the compulsion of so many to change the narrative about the attacks that … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged 9/11, ADL, Islamophobia
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According to Canary Mission, UIC branch of Students for Justice in Palestine stepped up its efforts in 2020-21, even attacking the wider Chicago Jewish community
ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) New report finds ‘disturbing’ levels of antisemitic activity at Univ. of Illinois Chicago by Meira Svirsky and JNS September 3, 2021 Last week, the University of Illinois at Chicago welcomed students back to campus. … Continue reading
Bernard Zell Anshe Emet School Head responds to Chicago Contrarian criticism
CHICAGO CONTRARIAN Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School “Replaces Maimonides with Marx” by Michael J, Bernard September 7, 2021 In interviews with current and former students, parents, board committee members and administrators, Chicago Contrarian has learned that there is no … Continue reading
Dara Horn’s fierce and often hilarious new collection of essays gives hope and backbone to the living
TABLET MAG People Love Dead Jews by David Mikics September 2, 2021 …Horn’s sarcasm is bracing, reminding us that the politics of Jewish memory often becomes an outrageous marketing of half-truths and outright lies…Horn begins People Love Dead Jews with a … Continue reading
A new literary weapon by Andrew Pessin is a sparkling and savagely satirical novel about campus “cancel culture”
JNS When anti-Semitic lunatics take control of the academic asylum by Melanie Phillips September 2, 2021 …Those who support Zionism often find themselves “canceled.” That’s because the Marxist dogma of identity politics divides people into powerful and powerless according to … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Andrew Pessin, antisemitism, cancel culture, intersectionality
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“Why do college administrators ignore the threats to the Jewish students entrusted to their care?”
ENDOWMENT FOR MIDDLE EAST TRUTH It’s Time to Protect Jewish Students on College Campuses by Lauri B. Regan September 1, 2021 …Almost a century after Hitler employed youth groups to begin his campaign to marginalize, then silence, and finally annihilate … Continue reading
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Tagged Students for Justice in Palestine
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In “The Sisters of Auschwitz,” a best seller in the Netherlands for more than two years, Roxane van Iperen writes about the way Janny and Lien Brilleslijper staged their own form of resistance
NEW YORK TIMES How 2 Jewish Sisters Built a Cultural Oasis During World War II by Nina Siegal August 27, 2021 Midway through “The Sisters of Auschwitz,” Roxane van Iperen’s book on two Dutch Jewish sisters who aided dozens of … Continue reading
“A wave of refugees is washing up on Miami’s shores, only now it’s disgruntled New Yorkers, fleeing the city’s draconian COVID restrictions and pessimistic politics”
TABLET MAG Miami’s New Diaspora by Armin Rosen August 31, 2021 …Glutted with former Gothamites, Miami is now one the best and most natural places to ruminate on the fate of New York, and on the meaning of its downward … Continue reading