Was it peaceful protest to attack and injure janitorial employees at Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall a year ago? To seize and occupy the same building? To block traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge, the approach to Chicago’s congested O’Hare International Airport and the jammed southbound lanes of the 110 freeway below the iconic four-level stacked interchange in Los Angeles? [Bruce S. Ticker]
A recent editorial in the Jerusalem Post calls for ending the war now, without achieving Israel’s objectives to cleanse Gaza of the Jihadi Hamas fighters. This is a terrible idea. [Steve Kramer]
OpEd: Jerusalem Post Calls for Ending the War with Hamas Read More »
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Donald Trump’s threats to withdraw federal funding from Harvard if it doesn’t comply with his demands presage his ultimate plan to transform the university into a propaganda arm of MAGA ideology. [Laurie Baron]
Satire: MAGAtizing Harvard Read More »
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The communication theory of environmental comfortability discusses how specific environments and architectural styles can make a person comfortable or uncomfortable and, based on that comfort, determine how much a person will engage with that environment. [Rowanne Reifman]
How the Nazis Communicated Through Their Architecture Read More »
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he U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) last week opened an investigation into a complaint filed by The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and Jewish on Campus against California State Polytechnic (Cal Poly), Humboldt. The organizations allege that the university is in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by cultivating a campus environment that allowed for the verbal and physical harassment, exclusion, and abuse of Jewish students. [Press Release]
DOE Launches Investigation into Antisemitism at Cal Poly Humboldt Read More »
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AB 101 was ill-conceived from the start: no enforceable guidelines, no state standards, no penalties for ignoring guardrails that prohibit discrimination, not even a real definition of what ethnic studies actually means. [Marsha Sutton, Times of San Diego]
OpEd: California’s Ethnic Studies Program is a Train Wreck Read More »
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One group of Jews in South Africa were distinguished by their housing arrangements, known as “ostrich palaces.” What does that refer to? [Mark D. Zimmerman]
Jewish Trivia Quiz: South Africa Read More »
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In We are Black Jews: Ethiopian Jewry and the Journey to Equality in Israel, Roni Fantanesh Malkai provides eye-opening, need-to-know information about the history and difficulties of Ethiopian Jews. We should read it and do our best to get people to treat others as they want others to treat them. [Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin]
Author Chronicles Israeli Discrimination against Ethiopian Jews Read More »
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Once swallowed, the pill expands to form a rigid triangle, mimicking the presence of food and triggering the sensation of satiety. The device remains in the stomach for several hours before passing into the intestines, where it disintegrates. [Press Release]
Technion Pioneers Innovative Weight Loss Pill that Expands in Stomach Read More »
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In USA, Infeld recalled, “I arrived at Princeton in September 1936. Five months later our collaboration with Einstein began to work out well; we understood each other perfectly and had achieved even partial success, although the problem of formulating the equations of motion was far from being completely solved. …” [Alex Gordon]
Jewish Biography: Leopold Infeld, Physicist who Worked with Einstein Read More »
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One hundred and seventy-seven years ago in 1848, Adam Gimbel opened up his first retail location on the corner that locals in Vincennes, Indiana, fondly still call Gimbels Corner. [Jerry Klinger]
Gimbels Department Store’s Beginnings Celebrated in Vincennes, Indiana Read More »
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Roosevelt, as President from 1901 to 1909, wrestled with fashioning the correct American response to government-sponsored antisemitism in Romania and Russia. [Donald H. Harrison]
Theodore Roosevelt Proved Himself to Be a Good Friend to the Jews Read More »
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Thank you to all those who paid the ultimate price for our freedom, one day is never enough to honor those who sacrificed everything. May their memories forever be a blessing. [Cailin Acosta]
Extending Gratitude to God and Our Fallen Military Personnel Read More »
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When we allow lies about the Jewish state run rampant, when we dismiss graffiti that says “globalize the intifada” as youthful free speech – it has consequences. [Fabienne Perlov]
Slogans Like ‘Globalize the Intifada’ Lead to Domestic Terror Read More »
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