Harvard hearing, Hamas assaults, Hanukkah at war
Three topics worth our thoughts
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Jews don’t count, but do we want to? Phoebe Maltz Bovy on why the Ivy League antisemitism hearings (sort of) matter
Someone clue me in: What’s a “Harvard”?
There is but one university in North America that anyone cares about, to the point that if someone at it has a hangnail, it’s front-page news. Only one that gets the euphemistic treatment: I went to school in the Boston area, as though if the H-word were uttered aloud, one’s interlocutor will simply faint from how impressed they are.
#MeTooUnlessUrAJew
#MeTooUnlessUrAJew calls out the hypocrisy of democratic institutions and progressive activists, who were almost certainly extremely vocal during the #MeToo movement, downplaying or denying the rape of Israeli women and sexual violence by Hamas terrorists. British journalist Nicole Lampert guests on the podcast to help us break down why it’s been such an uphill battle to get feminists to believe Israeli women and to understand the distinctions between realities in Canada, Britain and the United States.
Rabbi Avi Finegold contemplates the contemporary resonances of Hanukkah
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