Book review: "Mindless: What happened to universities?" by Cary Nelson

"Mindless: What happened to universities?", by Cary Nelson, is the March issue of Jewish Quarterly, which dedicates each issue to a single essay. The 120-page book is essentially both a distillation and an update of Nelson's last book, Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault on Basic Principles. it covers much of the same ground as to the deterioration...

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Book review: "Young Zionist Voices"

Young Zionist Voices: A New Generation Speaks Out is a collection of 31 essays that make one hopeful for the future.Similar to his previous book, Jewish Priorities: Sixty-Five Proposals for the Future of Our People, David Hazony found a diverse group of writers to each write about a specific topic, in this case Zionism. While the writers have different colors,...

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Book review of my new cartoon book "He's an Anti-Zionist, Too!" (Daled Amos)

By Daled Amos, to be published in The Jewish PressWhen I wrote a review in 2022 of Elder of Ziyon's first book Protocols: Exposing Modern Antisemitism, I noted that beyond his clarity and conciseness in debunking anti-Israel claims, there was an element of innovation in his blog. Anyone familiar with Elder of Ziyon's earlier articles is familiar with his "Apartheid" posters,...

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Book Review: "Deceit of an Ally"

"Deceit of an Ally" is a memoir of sorts by Bruce Brill, who worked at the NSA 50 years ago as an Arabic translator.The main point of the book is that Brill, who was Jewish,  was urged by his boss not to travel home for Yom Kippur in 1973 because he had absolutely positive information that a war was going to break out that day. The rest of the book is mostly Brill's...

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Book review: Tuvia Tenenbom's "Careful, Beauties Ahead! "

Tuvia Tenenbom's books all have the same style: Tenenbom goes around the world and uses his disarming personality to get people - often antisemites - to reveal things they would never tell anyone, or he uses faux-naivete to expose the hypocrisy of his targets. One theme that goes through his books is that he genuinely likes most ordinary people (and especially their food)...

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Dr. Carole Lieberman: “Always Tell Children the Truth About Terror” (Judean Rose, Interview)

Dr. Carole Lieberman, AKA The Terrorist Therapist®, has provided expert advice to readers of my parenting columns since 2016. In all that time, we never met face to face, and I never told her where I lived. It was all by email. Not long after October 7, however, I decided to tell Dr. Carole that I live in Israel and was worried about my grandchildren, whose home had taken...

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