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Jewish leaders express concern over proposed changes to Dem platform on Israel
jacobk
May 26, 2016
Bernie Sanders’ appointments of Cornel West and James Zogby as his representatives to the Democratic party’s platform drafting committee are drawing strong condemnation from U.S. Jewish leaders.
Letters to the Editor: Cornel West, Transgender Community and Pamela Geller
Jewish Journal
May 13, 2015
As someone privileged to study with Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel in the 1960s, and hear Cornel West’s presentation on Heschel…
Letters to the editor: Cornel West, lashon harah and more
Jewish Journal
May 7, 2015
Todd Presner says that UCLA’s Center for Jewish Studies invited Cornel West to speak at this week’s Heschel conference because of West’s “25 years of scholarly engagement with Heschel (“Why Did We Invite Cornel West?” May 1).
Tribute outshines controversy at UCLA Heschel conference
Jared Sichel
May 5, 2015
During the two weeks leading up to a major conference at UCLA to honor the late rabbi and civil rights leader Abraham Joshua Heschel, controversy swirled around one of the event’s two keynote speakers — Cornel West — an outspoken academic who severely criticized Israel during its war last summer with Hamas.
At the May 3-4 conference titled “Moral Grandeur & Spiritual Audacity” however, celebration of Heschel took precedence over the dispute of the preceding weeks.
Is Anti-Semitism Losing its Meaning (and Are We to Blame)
Mitch Paradise
April 28, 2015
As turbulence mounts regarding Cornel West’s speaking at UCLA’s Center for Jewish Studies on May 3rd and 4th, a lot is being written about the ex-Princeton professor, now at the Union Theological Seminary.
Diminishing Heschel
Jewish Journal
April 22, 2015
Inviting Cornel West to celebrate Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel is an insult.
Why did we invite Cornel West?
Jewish Journal
April 22, 2015
Based on twenty-five years of scholarly engagement with Heschel, we asked [Cornel] West to speak about the impact of Heschel’s ideas and activism, especially in the Civil Rights Movement. We did not invite him to speak about the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanction movement (BDS) or to espouse a boycott of Israel or divestment.
An Urgent Call to Rescind Cornel West’s Invitation to Speak in memory of Rabbi Heschel
Jewish Journal
April 22, 2015
Cornel West is the antithesis of everything Rabbi Heschel represented.
UCLA Jewish Studies head stands behind keynote invitation to Cornel West for Heschel conference
Jared Sichel
April 21, 2015
Amidst objections from some leading Jewish voices at UCLA to an invitation to Cornel West—an author, academic and an outspoken critic of Israel—to serve as the keynote speaker at an upcoming UCLA conference to honor the late Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, Todd Presner, director of UCLA’s Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, said Tuesday he does not plan to rescind the invitation.
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