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The saga of Rabbi Eliezer Melamed exposes the fault-lines emerging in Jewish fundamentalism and religious ultra-nationalism over engaging with non-Orthodox Jews. They pose radical challenges – for both sides
Racism in the United States has been cited as a key driver of racial health inequities. Racism as a public health crisis has been in the forefront, particularly with respect to state and municipal governments that have developed legislation, resolutions and declarations. This policy brief includes a review of resolutions and declarations across the US related to Racism as a Public Health Crisis through September 2020. There were 125 resolutions reviewed for content related to the history of racism, reference to racial health equity data, solutions and action steps, implementation and any accom...
MacroBusiness Access Subscriber Only Content at 12:00 pm on July 21, 2021 | 17 comments Excerpted from “The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order”, provided by Sinocism and Oxford University Press. Rush Doshi is the founding director of the Brookings China Strategy Initiative and a fellow (on leave) at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center. Previously, he was a member of the Asia policy working groups for the Biden and Clinton presidential campaigns and a Fulbright Fellow in China. His research has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal,...
From the blog of Linda Pardes Friedburg at The Times of Israel
March 8, 2021 Share this with FacebookShare this with TwitterShare this with LinkedInShare this with EmailPrint this Gerald Jaynes Gerald Jaynes, the newly named A. Whitney Griswold Professor of Economics, African American Studies, and Urban Studies, studies race relations and the economic conditions of African Americans and immigrants. His appointment was effective January 1. Jaynes is a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. In the field of economics, he is known for the Jaynes-Hellwig-Glosten Allocation, which describes an equilibrium outcome achieved in markets where trading agents h...