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Why Is It so Hard for There to Be Zero Tolerance for Jew-Hatred on Campus? Micha Danzig served in the Israeli Army and is a former police officer with the NYPD. He is currently an attorney and is very active with numerous Jewish and pro-Israel organizations, including Stand With Us, T.E.A.M. and the FIDF. On March 7, 2015, members of the University of Oklahoma (OU) chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) were filmed on a bus performing a racist song that used the “N word” and enthusiastically referencing Jim Crow. The video of the incident was reported by The Oklahoma Daily on March 8....

What Does Being Jewish Teach Us About Resilience During a Pandemic? I hadn’t thought about the connection between pandemic resilience and my Jewish identity until I was participating in an online faculty meeting for the graduate department at USC (where I teach). As an adjunct professor, I don’t often speak up in these meetings, due in large part to a tacit norm that adjuncts are not “real” university faculty. But this time, I couldn’t hold back. The meeting was about students struggling with their education and their personal lives during the pandemic and how aware and sensitive pr...