Jewish-Muslim family escapes Syrian civil war for Israel
A Jewish-Muslim family from Syria escaped from the country’s civil war to Israel.
A Jewish-Muslim family from Syria escaped from the country’s civil war to Israel.
On a hot afternoon in early June, an unusual looking bus is parked in the central square of this historic city in eastern France.
Last week I worried in this space that our college students were ill-equipped to defend American Jewry\’s pro-Israel position. I asked for a volunteer to explain what\’s going on. Luckily, Donald Cohen-Cutler, a UC Davis freshman and an international relations major, stepped up to the plate.
I say \”luckily\” because events on campus are even worse than I had suspected. Of course, I remember the beginnings of the Jewish-Muslim rift on campus during the first intifada. But I don\’t remember blatant insults to Jewish ritual and history. That\’s what\’s happening now (see story, page 10).