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Both situated on North Broad Street, Temple University and Congregation Rodeph Shalom regularly encounter the injustice and inequities of city life. And they both see it as their mission to help bridge cultural and societal divides experienced in the neighborhood and beyond. As part of that shared mission, the university’s Feinstein Center for American Jewish History and the
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This actually a play on Michael Shrimpton’s article, which is entitled “Israel hammers Hamas,” and which is completely devoid of historical facts and deep analysis about what has been doing on in the Middle East for the better part of sixty years. Back in 2014, Shrimpton and I had a long discussion about similar issues, both at VT and via email messages. For the life of me, I simply cannot understand why Shrimpton continues to avoid scholarly studies that have been written on these issues and move on to perpetuate the Israeli narratives, which, as my dear friend Mark Dankof put it in ou...
For more than a century, ever since Adolph Ochs purchased the New York Times in 1896, his newspaper has proudly... After crossing swords with James Kilpatrick, intellectual mastermind of the South’s “massive resistance” campaign against public school desegregation, Friedman was caught in the crossfire between the ADL’s New York office and Virginia’s Jewish community, fearful of antisemitic backlash. He fell on his sword, resigning and moving to Philadelphia to head the American Jewish Committee’s regional office. For more than 40 years, he distinguished himself as a community acti...