by Samuel Hux (April 2016)
A recent article (11/30/2015) in the Jerusalem Post asks “Should Your Child Go To A College Whose Faculty Supports The Anti-Semitic Boycott Against Israel?” I take it “A Significant Number of Whose faculty. . .” would make an already long headline too long, so I will accept “Whose Faculty. . . .” I have no offspring still young enough to be choosing a college, but had I it would not be easy to find a reputable college free of the disgrace of the BDS movement (boycott, divestment, sanctions). But since I have spent most of my professional career attached to one of the institutions the article mentions, The City University of New York, third in BDS members behind NYU and Princeton, the question has a certain resonance for me. more>>>
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One of the great mysteries of the 20th Century is the the evolution of the Jewish meme from pariah to sympathetic victim, to victor, and back to pariah. Throughout, I believe the tread is jealousy, a fundamental resentment of successful Jews wherever the diaspora took them. The military success of Israelis seems to have a bridge too far. Withal, the successful Jew is, in the end, the most telling refutation of most notions of cultural or moral equivalence. Jewish ability to both assimilate, retain their identity, and still make prodigious contributions to global culture is unique and enriches micro and macro culture alike. Would that we could say the same for all religious cultures.