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Landry passed around a list of Jewish and Christian groups in the country that support varying degrees of legal abortion, from groups that support it only in cases of rape or danger to a mother’s life, to groups that support it regardless of circumstances...
...grouping together individual Americans who happen to be Jewish, columnist Sahm Adrangi lumps together an extremely heterogeneous group of people and implies that they have divided loyalties between their professions and their “duty” to Israel. If any other group—say third-generation Scottish Americans—were subjected to the same charge, it would be laughable...
...Zionist. As an executive editor of The Crimson, I have met Jewish journalists from every part of the spectrum between Zionism and anti-Zionism. To repeat the obvious, Zionists do not control the American media...
Libeskind, who is best known for his haunting design of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, should have known better. The Jewish Museum is composed of a labyrinth of angular corridors and startling voids—spaces at the heart of the building, visible but inaccessible to museum-goers. The effect is deeply unsettling. It speaks volumes about our inability to dwell in the wake of death without in some way internalizing its final nullity. This is not art struck dumb, but art realizing its limitations, its profound humanness. Sometimes what we cannot...
Libeskind’s Jewish Museum in Berlin, too, is tied to the stilled remnants of the German Jewish community. He did not hazard the baseness of memorializing the dead at the place of their annihilation. What could a memorial at Auschwitz do but divert us from Auschwitz? There are reasons we do not place gravestones in the charnel pits...