Category Archives: Jewish

MIT celebrates Israel’s 70th…”Of the six academic speakers who were invited to participate, not one depicted the creation of Israel as anything other than a moral calamity”

COMMENTARY Haidt’s Theory Vindicated at MIT by Jonah Cohen April 27, 2018 …Last Monday, several social scientists from prestigious universities gathered in a state-of-the-art theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts for MIT’s conference on Israel’s 70th anniversary. While enjoying trays of free cookies and … Continue reading

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The “whisper campaign” against quarterback Josh Rosen was “absolutely classic anti-Semitism”

NEW YORKER Josh Rosen and the NFL Draft’s Jewish-Quarterback Question by Zach Helfand April 26, 2018 …Since Sid Luckman, who threw his last pass in 1950, there hasn’t been a star Jewish quarterback in the N.F.L. There have been hardly … Continue reading

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US Holocaust Memorial Museum “remains what it would prefer not to be: pertinent to understanding not only the past but the present”

NATIONAL REVIEW The Vilest and Noblest Manifestations of Humanity by George Will April 26, 2018 As the museum of human nature, aka the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, marks its 25th anniversary, it continues to receive artifacts, such as a … Continue reading

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‘It is not the college’s practice to follow the personal social media accounts of its faculty or staff members’

TABLET MAG Prestigious Liberal Arts College Refuses to Condemn Professor’s Anti-Semitic Tweets by Liel Leibovitz April 23, 2018 Jews behave like Nazis, Zionism is genocide, and the Bible commands the Chosen People to wipe out every living thing. When the Hillel … Continue reading

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Natalie Portman’s “initial reason for concern was the clashes in Gaza”

FREE BEACON Natalie Portman’s Evolving Excuse for Refusing Israeli Genesis Prize by Brent Scher April 24, 2018 …The Genesis Foundation “went out of its way to accommodate Portman’s concerns about Netanyahu,” according to JewishInsider, which says the foundation told Portman … Continue reading

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“The New York Times dismisses news of Palestinian payments to terrorists as a ‘far-right conspiracy’”

TABLET MAG All the Fake News That’s Fit to Print by Liel Leibovitz April 21, 2018 On Saturday, Nellie Bowles, a technology reporter for The New York Times, wrote a piece about Campbell Brown…Ms. Brown,” wrote Bowles, “wants to use Facebook’s … Continue reading

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JUF of Metro Chicago Celebrates Israel @ 70 [VIDEO]

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“In a first for the US, State Department erases references to ‘Israeli occupation’ in annual report. PA says ‘US has sided with Israel'”

ARUTZ SHEVA Trump admin drops references to Judea, Samaria as ‘occupied’ by David Rosenberg April 21, 2018 The US State Department has dropped claims that Israel’s presence in Judea, Samaria, and eastern Jerusalem constitutes an “occupation” from its annual human … Continue reading

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Chicago’s own Louis Farrakhan is “quite possibly the most popular anti-Semite in America”

FORWARD Louis Farrakhan Doesn’t Just Have An Anti-Semitism Problem — He Has A Slavery Problem by Charles Jacobs April 24, 2018 …While neo-Nazis and white supremacists drummed up a mere few hundred people at their “national” rally in Charlottesville, Farrakhan’s recent … Continue reading

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Stephens: “Jews cannot rely for their safety on the kindness of strangers, least of all French or German politicians” [VIDEO]

NEW YORK TIMES Jewish Power at 70 Years by Bret Stephens April 20, 2018 …To be Jewish — at least visibly Jewish — in Europe is to live on borrowed time. That’s not to doubt the sincerity and good will … Continue reading

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