Ahmadinejad at Columbia: All News Outlets on Earth Weigh in | Parsing

By Carly Silver September 19, 2011

After a controversial speech at Columbia University in 2007, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have linked up with the New York school again to discuss his policies. And every news outlet from the Upper West Side to Israel has put their two cents in. According to a Sept. 10 article in the Columbia Daily Spectator,…

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Surviving “Witz” | Seriously Stereotyped

By gedelstein September 19, 2011

The back cover of Joshua Cohen’s novel Witz is enticing, but misleading. It depicts an alternate history where all the Jews in the world die at the start of the 21st century, resulting in a Judaism pop-culture craze as the goyim try to preserve, imitate and commercialize Jewish culture.  I read this synopsis and thought “either this…

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