The Constitutional Crisis behind Israel’s Showdown over Its Judiciary
If opponents of reform ceased their “panic-stricken keening,” they could articulate serious arguments.
January 12, 2023
Racial and Religious Quotas at Stanford—Then and Now
The university has apologized for its sins, but has it forsaken them?
Last fall, Stanford University released a lengthy report—based on a number of damning internal memos—detailing how in the 1950s its admissions office systematically excluded Jews, while declaring vociferously that it employed “no quotas for Catholics or Jews,” or any other “racial, religious, or geographic” group. The current president, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, publicly apologized for his institution’s previous actions. But John Rosenberg wonders if the prestigious West Coast college has really learned the lessons of its prior mistakes:
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Considering Zionism’s Successes 75 Years after the Founding of the Jewish State
And “old-new land” in the fullest sense.
Confessions of a Leader of Britain’s Anti-Semitic Left
Chris Williamson still blames the Jews.
Racial and Religious Quotas at Stanford—Then and Now
The university has apologized for its sins, but has it forsaken them?
Arthur Miller’s Literary Reckoning with His Jewish Experience
Revisiting a forgotten novel.