It is obviously easier to criticize how something was covered in the newspaper or who was included in an international or academic forum than to write about what or who was not there. Often, the most powerful bias of a publication…
read moreFOUR YEARS AGO I RECEIVED A VERY UNUSUAL invitation indeed. The Church of England in Manchester, England, was organizing a conference on the subject of “Conflict resolution on Campus.” Chaplains and counselors from all faiths were invited to attend and there…
read moreWisdom is often found at the Aristotelian mean. In the debate over campus anti-Semitism, alarmists are too often pitted against quietists. The former see danger behind every corner, while the latter don’t see it until it is too late. In…
read moreHusband and wife. Both Jewish. Both history professors. Both right wing. Both combat anti-Semitism on American college campuses. Meet Stephen H. Norwood and Eunice G. Pollack. “It’s very exciting,” Pollack told The Jewish Press. “We go to archives together –…
read moreWithin Jewish communities here at UC Santa Cruz and elsewhere, the question of Jewish identity in relation to Israel is one without any clear answer. For some, Jewishness is intimately tied to Israel, inseparable from it. For others, the state…
read more“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven,” according to both Ecclesiastes 3:1 and, in more recent history, the Byrds. So, when is a good time to protest the Jewish state of Israel?…
read moreIn a recent lecture at the University of Oslo, Norwegian sociologist Professor Johan Galtung claimed there was a possible connection exists between the terrorist responsible for the massacre of children in Norway last summer, and the Mossad. “The Jews control…
read moreThe organized Jewish community in the US has just cast a big vote of confidence for civil rights lawsuits to protect Jewish students. This is surprising because recent indications were that it would go the other way. The Jewish Council…
read moreRUSS REPORT – District 30 Congressional Candidate, Mark Reed, is calling on incumbents, Congressmen Brad Sherman and Howard Berman to demand a Federal investigation into charges of anti-Semitism on University of California (UC) and California State University (CSU) campuses. Reed…
read moreThe photo went up Sunday night on a student’s Facebook page: Ashton Cohen was posing, one of the women in the image wrote jokingly, with his “three wives,” a campus paper reported. And the photo and caption ignited the latest skirmish…
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