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Jackson Richman

“Why on earth would campus administrators see fit to award this group after it has failed time and again to advance the core values of the university: dialogue, open inquiry and civil discourse on contentious issues?” asked Academic Engagement Network executive director Miriam Elman.
He was the sole Republican vote against the overwhelmingly passed July 2019 resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives condemning the anti-Israel BDS movement and voted against the Never Again Education Act in January that seeks to expand Holocaust education in America.
Roughly half of those surveyed said they were worried that a person wearing a yarmulke or other display of Judaism would be physically assaulted or verbally harassed in public.
HonestReporting CEO Daniel Pomerantz said “when news outlets prematurely recognize a Palestinian state, they are not only being factually inaccurate, but undermine prospects for peace by rewarding unilateralism and intransigence by the Palestinian government.”
She knew English, French, German and Spanish. She taught not only those languages, but also how to have a kind and tolerant tongue.
“This latest incident fits a pattern of offensive and inflammatory social-media posts that do nothing to advance peace and understanding between Israelis and Palestinians, but rather fuels more hate and divisiveness,” said Evan Bernstein, vice president of the ADL’s northeast division.
His message to a world struggling through a pandemic ahead of remembrance of Yom Hashoah: “People should be nice to each other, to help each other. Be good to your family and to people.”
“The U.S. deal with the Taliban comes on the heels of the head of U.S. Central Command revealing an uptick in Iranian malign activity in Afghanistan,” according to United Against Nuclear Iran policy director Jason Brodsky.
“We urge the U.S. government to press the government in Pakistan to reverse this injustice and hold the murderers of an American citizen to account,” said the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
“Already struggling, we are not able to sustain the enterprise in an environment of an almost complete economic shutdown,” said CJN president Elizabeth Wolfe.
I’ll miss my mother’s cooking and my dad’s historical commentary that accompanies reading the Haggadah at the seders.