Salvador Litvak is a Chilean Jewtino who’s lived in the U.S. since he was five. He graduated from Harvard, NYU Law and UCLA Film. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and writing partner, Nina Davidovich Litvak. Salvador wrote and directed the Passover comedy and cult hit, When Do We Eat? as well as the visually innovative historical drama, Saving Lincoln. Sal shares a bit of Jewish wisdom at “>accidentaltalmudist.org.
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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