Functionally, the answer to the question in the headline is that it really doesn’t matter and we might now finally have that moment, that utter and complete gaffe-tastic meltdown, which starts to serve as the wrong move that brings the…
My prior two installments in this series are here and here. I urge you to read them for background and context. Because of political correctness, one of the glaring causes of the current campus student riots may not be spoken. We all see…
WASHINGTON — The Columbia University Apartheid Divest coalition issued five demands: that Columbia divest assets that benefit from “Israeli apartheid, genocide and occupation in Palestine”; sever relations with Israeli universities; end “land grabs” whether in Harlem or Palestine; defund campus…
Rapper Macklemore, who owns two Billboard Hot 100 chart toppers along with collaborator Ryan Lewis, just released a song in solidarity with the Palestinians and their well-wishers on American college campuses. He calls it “Hind’s Hall,” the name activists at…
What you’ve heard a great deal of lately has to do with the supposed elite college campuses, the Columbias, UCLAs, Northwesterns, and even NYUs, wherein radical leftists (some of whom are actual college students; most are not) have shut down…
The glorious eight-day festival of Pesach (Passover) ended Tuesday night. It coincided with the end of a challenging four-week recovery period from a surgery that was followed by severe post-op complications. I am 80 percent recovered, and I finally now…
What societal institutions, other than mosques, show a greater receptivity to the pro-Hamas message than the campuses? Neither transgenders wearing keffiyehs nor the great number of students owning high-end glamping gear strikes as the strangest thing about the protests. Their…
This article is adapted from Baruch Apisdorf’s remarks at a Soldiers Save Lives (SSL) fundraiser in Manhattan earlier this month. These past six months have been the hardest six months of my life. I always thought that I was in…
If Jews do not feel safe on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, in New York City, in the United States of America, where can they feel safe? NYC is home to some 1.3 million Jews, the most outside of Israel….