Daily Archives: June 14, 2019
Martin Feldstein, noted Harvard economist and political steward, dies at 79
Martin Feldstein ’61, a towering figure in economics who advised presidents across political boundaries and helped develop public economics as an empirical science, died Tuesday at age 79. He taught at Harvard for five...
Abrasive questions on Israel asked of Engel
Rabea Ali, president of the Muslim Students Association at Manhattan College, wasted no time challenging U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel’s advocacy in a campus speech for Israel when she asked, “And how do you find...
The legacy of the ‘nakba’ and lies about Israel
Many students on college campuses these days hear the lie that Israel has murdered entirely innocent, peaceful, unarmed protesters in the Gaza Strip. They hear that the Israel Defense Forces specifically targets women and...
Forget about the ‘Jewish home-run record’
The story is designed to appeal to baseball fans, as well as that curious subset of people who obsess about the role of Jews in America’s national pastime. Last week, Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan...
Deconstructing where American media has gone wrong
You just know that in the place where irony is calibrated, the needle on the meter must be going crazy.
Over at the newspaper that boasts it prints “all the news that fits,” they have...
New Golan neighborhood to be named ‘Trump Heights’
A new town in the Golan Heights will be named “Trump Heights,” or “Ramat Trump” in Hebrew, after U.S. President Donald Trump officially recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan three months ago.
The Israeli cabinet...
What happened to Israel’s Labor Party … and why?
Avi Gabbay, chairman of Israel’s Labor Party, has announced that he is leaving politics after just two years as the party’s leader, and the scramble has begun to replace him with the party at...
Graham, Zeldin slam Buttigieg for threat to cut US aid over potential West Bank...
Two congressional Republicans on Wednesday slammed Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., and a candidatefor the Democratic nomination for president in 2020, for saying on Tuesday, “If Prime Minister Netanyahu makes good...
Gaza rocket hits yeshivah in Sderot in second attack of day
A rocket launched by Hamas in Gaza struck a building in the southern Israeli town of Sderot late on Thursday, causing damage but no injuries.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, the building hit belong...
Army ROTC Cadet removed for posting neo-Nazi, racist messages on social media
The U.S. Army Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) has removed a cadet from her unit at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte for posting anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi and other racist messages on social media.
“I actually don’t...