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Tony Kushner Has a Right to Be Wrong

By eweiss May 10, 2011

Angels in America bored me and I found Munich cliché. Suffice it to say, I am not a fan of Tony Kushner. And I don’t agree with his politics. Regardless, he’s still a major contributor to recent American drama and literature.  So I’m wondering why Jeffrey S. Wiesenfeld, the right-wing Zionist trustee of the City University…

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Protect Professor Kristofer Petersen-Overton’s Job

By eweiss February 4, 2011

This article has been edited to reflect a correction: Student leaders of the procession protesting Professor Petersen-Overton’s curriculum have met with Brooklyn College’s administration to discuss their concerns. Previously, this article implied that those meetings had not yet taken place. I take great pride in calling myself a Zionist, but I take greater pride in…

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Not swearing over swearing

By eweiss October 17, 2010

Should I ever decide to make Vatican City my home (I covet their archives for my research), I understand that I may have to take an oath to a Catholic country. If I were allowed to live and work in Saudi Arabia, I might have to take an oath to an Islamic state. Neither of…

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No Israel, no harmony

By eweiss September 15, 2010

Even though I’m a Zionist and a Jewish woman, I’m also an eternal Pollyanna. I truly believe that all people are good. I have spent a lot of my ink here begging people not to hate on the Cordoba Project, a lot of my free time pleading with my fellow Jews to remember many happy…

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The Perils of a Book Boycott

By eweiss September 6, 2010

As a law student, my required reading is painfully boring and rarely controversial.  So I have to say I envy the Brooklyn College students who are being forced to read a book by someone Bruce Kesler calls a “radical pro-Palestinian professor,’” who at least will have something interesting to discuss. Forget disinheriting the college; I’d happily…

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Children are Good for the Jews

By eweiss August 11, 2010

There is a wonderful story about a village whose residents wanted to present their feudal lord with a gift: a full barrel of whiskey.  There would be a grand celebration on the lord’s birthday, when the mayor of the town would present the gift accompanied by choir and song. To spread the cost of the whiskey,…

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Bad move, ADL

By eweiss August 1, 2010

The Anti-Defamation League decided on Friday to throw its kippah into the ring by opposing the Cordoba Initiative near Ground Zero, which suggests that the ADL is now working to cause anti-Semitism rather than prevent it.  In a world where Oliver Stone is spewing that “Israel has f*cked up United States foreign policy,” Dutch police are forced to go undercover…

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Where is the love?

By eweiss July 13, 2010

At least there is some good news today. There is obviously no Zionist conspiracy to run the world. Given the division in the Jewish community, it’s unlikely the community can agree on who a Jew even is, and the meaning of Judaism. With assimilation  at an all time high, one would think the Orthodox world…

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I am Wonder Woman, Hear Me Roar

By eweiss July 6, 2010

Being a comic book nerd is hard enough when people think you have no social life. But is it un-American? Phyllis Chesler seems to think so. In her latest article, Chesler cites how Wonder Woman’s new costume shows American submission to the evils of globalization. Chesler says Wonder Woman’s getup is “non-American, and therefore anti-American”…

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Who Speaks for the Irvine MSU?

By eweiss June 17, 2010

The college campus has always been a place for heated debates, but has it gone too far? When protesters from the UC-Irvine Muslim Student Union shouted down Ambassador Michael Oren, the school came under fire for allowing students to overstep their bounds as activists.   Freedom of speech is important but the event was a black…

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For Heaven’s Sake

By eweiss April 16, 2010

The Mishna teaches us that an argument for the sake of heaven will yield lasting results. Judaism is a religion of arguments: Hillel vs. Shammai, Rashi vs. Rabbenu Tam, Heschel vs. Kaplan. Yet the Mishna tells us that even if arguments become heated, we must remember that it is not personal. We argue not to win…

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