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Columbia University Students Organize "Tuition Strike" to Force Divestment From Israel by Dion J. PierreDion J. Pierre

Anti-Israel students at Columbia University in New York have organized a “strike” to withhold their tuition payments unless the school…

Yes kids you should totally do this. I’m pretty sure the people who deal with the university’s finances are not going to put up with your shit and you will likely not end up with your precious degrees when you want them, which will cost you more.

Fucking morons.

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SNL’s Antisemitism Sketch Was Hateful and Not Funny by Alan ZeitlinAlan Zeitlin

There are ways to lampoon and mock the college presidents who failed to admit that calling for the genocide of…

Non-Jews can absolutely care about antisemitism and defend Jews and even be absolutely horrified and outraged over the testimony of the three college presidents.

Stefanik is absolutely not one of those non-Jews who care about antisemitism.

I’m sick to death of the “The Real Antisemites” discourse, where one side’s antisemitism, (in this case, the antisemitism from the right and Stefanik’s complete refusal to call any of it out while stomping her feet in outrage when the antisemitism is politically advantageous), is either downplayed or completely dismissed in favor of the politically advantageous kind.

Either call out antisemitism whereever it occurs and quit giving people a pass just because they share your politics, or shut the fuck up.

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University presidents were right and Jews' moral panic is wrong by The Forward
Joining a right-wing war on higher education, led by the likes of Elise Stefanik, will not make American Jews any safer.

I don’t think I entirely agree that Jewish anger and concern over antisemitism is wrong, or even that donors shouldn’t pull their money from universities who administrations can’t figure out how to create policies concerning antisemitism. But I absolutely agree that Jews shouldn’t play into the right’s anti-university game, and we shouldn’t allow them to use our fear and anger for their own political ends.

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The Talmudic Cure for Our Technology Sickness by Andrew Lovseth

When new technology enters the world, it enriches it and pushes it forward. New technologies always add to people’s lives something they didn’t have before. But technology not only adds to people’s lives; it also takes away from them, as Marshall McLuhan observed. What it adds is always shiny; what it takes away is always […]

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Lincoln’s Lost Lecture: Can Democracy Survive Technology? by Andrew Lovseth

All creation is mine, and every man, a miner.” So begins one of the least-known speeches by Abraham Lincoln, the “Lecture on Discoveries and Inventions,” versions of which were delivered on at least six occasions between April 1858 and April 1860. We generally think of Lincoln as an American prophet, a redeemer president who freed […]

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Jewish Ethics in an Age of Autonomous Warfare by Andrew Lovseth

Imagine you are a head of state with the opportunity to kill in one strike the entire political and military leadership of an enemy terrorist group. Every. Single. One. All the leaders and commanders who have launched repeated attacks on buses, cafes, and shopping centers would be gone in a flash. Along with terrorists, however, […]

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The Synagogue by Andrew Lovseth

Disruptive innovation,” a term heard more often in business school than in synagogue, has been at the heart of the Jewish project from the beginning. Soon after establishing the covenant at Sinai, the Children of Israel reconstructed their religious life around a mobile tabernacle that carried their community and its faith through the wilderness. Upon […]