Temerity Faculty News Today

Diversity, equity, and inclusion offices (DEI) receive greater attention in academic and professional spaces, leading Jews to worry about whether human rights codes will be weaponized against them

Mona Ahmed's sister and her family were in Morocco when the earthquake, which has killed over 2,800 people, struck and are now living on the street. It's inspired Ahmed to donate her restaurant's proceeds to victims of the earthquake as other organizations in the GTA send much-needed aid to Morocco.

Dr. Ayelet Kuper said antisemitism is “largely ignored” in the University of Toronto’s DEI courses, despite a mandate to include the subject as issued by that university’s antisemitism working group.

From the blog of Sheldon Kirshner at The Times of Israel

Your Glycemic index reminder By John DiTraglia - Contributing Columnist We were reminded about this thing called the glycemic index, which is probably really a thing, by the April 8 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. (1) The glycemic index, which we have belabored before (The glycemic index doesn’t matter, Portsmouth Daily Times 2-2-15), is defined as how much 50 grams of food containing carbohydrates raises the blood glucose level. It might be thought of as the sugar spikiness of ...