I'll be delivering the first academic paper I've ever written for a conference, this weekend at UC Berkeley. It's the ninth annual Islamophobia conference, titled The Road Travelled. Ironically, it will be held in the same academic building on campus which housed the department in which I pursued my PhD. I haven't been back in 35 years! The conference is … [Read more...]
The Overpaid, Underworked, White Men Who Run American Jewry
The 2017 Jewish Forward annual salary survey of American Jewish organizations was published today and it's a sad, sorry sight. Of the 55 CEOs listed in the survey only 8 are women and they are paid much less than their male counterparts. The award for biggest hazer goes to "Rabbi" Marvin Hier of the Wiesenthal Center who takes home over $800,000. 2nd on … [Read more...]
Tzipi Hotovely: Campus Hillels are “Liberal Dictatorship,” and U.S. Jews Don’t Understand Israel Because Their Kids Don’t Fight in Afghanistan
In an Israeli TV interview, the hosts posed some tough questions to Tzipi Hotovely, Israel's deputy foreign minister. The background to the interview was that she'd been invited to speak at Princeton University Hillel last month. After Jewish students on campus protested her appearance as part of a Brand Israel propaganda campaign, the Hillel determined … [Read more...]
Jewish Forward Protects Elie Wiesel’s Reputation at Expense of Alleged Sexual Assault Victim
The managing editor of the Jewish Forward, Jane Eisner, continued the precipitous decline of that publication this week by erasing an article it had published about a sexual abuse allegation against Jewish moral avatar, Elie Wiesel. The charge was published by the alleged victim, Jenny Listman, on her Medium blog, When I was Nineteen Years Old, Elie Wiesel … [Read more...]
