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Sep 27, 2024, 12:00 AM

It’s Banned Book Week: What Libraries Are Getting Wrong

I'm a big fan of the Queens Public Library. I go there all the time and can find most of the books I want, even some in Hebrew! I don't believe in book bans in general and think they...

Jun 29, 2024, 3:37 PM

JVP and Naturei Karta: You Gotta Laugh

With so many distressing cases of antisemitism occurring here and overseas sometimes it's good to kick back and chuckle at what goes on in the protest community. There's even a short quiz at the end. Ready for some fun?...

Jun 25, 2024, 2:40 AM

NY Times Paints Israelis as Unsympathetic

Seeing the headline “Israelis Extend Little Sympathy for Gaza Plight,” I couldn't help but wonder, how any journalist could think this was news, let alone front page material. Why on earth should Israelis be sympathetic to those who, without...

Jun 4, 2024, 5:17 AM

The Diminishing Parade

If you attended yesterday's “Israel Day on 5th” as I did, you may have felt that something was definitely off. It had most of the trappings of the traditional parade but there was also a lot missing. Watching it...

Jun 2, 2024, 9:10 AM

The Verdict: Our Country Is Worse Off

Prominent members of the judicial system of the United States of America decided that it would be in this country's best interests to bring to trial a former, admittedly controversial, president. The accusation was for an offense that previous...

May 25, 2024, 12:15 AM

College Leaders Forced to Justify Inactions

I was riveted watching the Congressional Hearing on Anti-Semitism on college campuses yesterday. Under a harsh spotlight were Michael Schill, president of Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, Gene Block, chancellor of UCLA in Los Angeles, and Jonathan Holloway, president...

May 22, 2024, 12:55 AM

University Rot: The Faculty Enablers

Looking for causes for the rot? Look no further than the faculty employed at our top universities. Today I’ll look at New York University and some vocal faculty members’ response to its disciplinary decisions. In Sunday’s Metropolitan section of The...

May 17, 2024, 8:43 AM

University Rot Keeps Spreading

What do the following have in common? Widespread cheating by science researchers. The romanticization of Muslim terrorists on college campuses Claudine Gay If you guessed all are symptoms of the rot undermining college education, you would be right. Remember the good-looking...

May 14, 2024, 10:20 PM

The Colors of Volunteering

It seems there are several ways Israelis are coping with the incredible stress of fighting a war on three fronts: smoking more, laughing more, and volunteering more. While I definitely wasn’t interested in the first coping mechanism, I was...

May 12, 2024, 9:56 AM

My First “Hate” Mail!

It's not often that you get a handwritten letter nowadays. So when I found one in today's stack of mail, I was curious to open it. There was no return address. Hmmm. It was a copy of a single-spaced, 8-point...

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Gina Friedlander is obsessed with all things Israeli. She served as editor of several trade magazines in the health and supplement industries before switching careers and becoming a high school English teacher and tutor of English and SAT prep. Currently she spends her time visiting Israel, writing, playing tennis, doing Israeli folk dancing, and trying to stay positive.

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