Poison Ivy League (Josh Namm)

Guest post by Josh Namm:The Ivy Is Still Poison We all remember the disastrous testimony of three presidents of the Ivy League when testifying before Congress at the end of last year about their schools’ dismal response to the recent, massive rise of campus antisemitism. Two of them, the University of Pennsylvania’s Liz Magill, and Harvard’s Claudine Gay, have since resigned. The...

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Chanukah: Independence & Defiance, Not Tolerance (Josh Namm)

(Guest post by Josh Namm) Every year article after article (after article) appears telling the world that Chanukah is the Jewish holiday of “religious freedom” or “religious tolerance.” Neither is even close to true. In fact, both of those ideas, related, but not identical, are both as far away from what Chanukah is as is possible. Another thing Chanukah is not, is a “minor...

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Would They Tear Down Anne Frank Too? (Guest post by Josh Namm)

Kita Anne Frank, Tangerhütte,Guest post by Josh NammWhen I was growing up, two to three decades after the Shoah, it was assumed that you would read The Diary of Anne Frank, and you understood that, in a way, she represented every victim of the Holocaust. Just invoking her name engendered each emotion every Jew feels when thinking about what had happened to our people. In fact,...

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