I went to a bar last week, a rare occurance. It was after a rehearsal for a play, and I sat on the rooftop of some hotel and ordered a drink.
This man sat next to me.
I remarked about peace, and how jewish prayer usually mentions peace. It occured to me that many people may not know that. “OSEH SHALOM..” how high, central, and explicit of an ideal it is.
He said he really didn't know that.
Part of the reason these mobs have been able to riot illegally is because of the threat of one word: Islamophobia.
The extreme tactics of those creating these encampments and related protests are unacceptable at every level.
You have the opportunity to show your kids, show your family, that when the time came, you stood up for what’s right.
The Columbia administrators have clearly lost control. Their cowardice and inability to act has ceded the campus to the antisemitic mobs, who delight in making Jewish students feel unwelcome and unsafe.
What we are seeing at Yale and other so-called “elite” or Ivy League universities has brought shame to American society.
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