These are educational institutions. But most universities have allowed bureaucrats – in Washington and on campus – to hijack what could be “teachable moments.”
Today, for Americans and Jews, the Battle of Little Big Horn has relevance and resonance.
Slinging criticism without responsibility and spewing all complaints all the time, is barn-burning, not bridge-building.
In their century-long struggle against Zionism, the Palestinian national movement has embraced and updated this revolting mix of often sexually-charged blood libels and barbaric sex crimes. October 7, and these latest lies, are the culmination of this growing sexual obsession and glorification of gendered violence against the Jews.
Amid so much media noise, with social media creating Algorithmic Radicals, spiraling deeper and deeper into violence-inducing echo chambers, many believe the shriller the better. But words matter – and tone matters too.
News Item: Ten Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) students recently protested the granting of an honorary doctorate to Israel’s President Yitzhak Herzog.
Israel’s 78th Independence Day is an opportunity to defy this political moment and think eternally, existentially, and about your identity.
Israelis must become King David Jews, fighting when necessary while building a glittering Zion. Diaspora Jews must become Queen Esther Jews. Fit in. Prosper. Decipher your foreign lands’ cultural codes. But be literate, proud, brave Jews.
On March 25, Professor Ruth Wisse, the legendary Yiddish literature and Jewish culture scholar, used an all-American platform to inspire Americans with Jewish, Zionist and quintessentially American, lessons.
Transcending politics, hosts should ritualize our deep, nonnegotiable, family-like connection to Israel.
