So just below you have the Juan Cole and MEMRI story. After MEMRI threatened Cole with a lawsuit, he cried foul, suggested that Academic Freedom was at stake, and blasted the ethernet with his blog...
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Academic Freedom, my tuches
Tonight, a friend sent me a an email that had been floating around a local university campus. The email decried a potential lawsuit, threatened by MEMRI’s head, Yigal Carmon, against Juan Cole...
Supreme Court Justice assails Separation of Church and State
Oy. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, speaking at Manhattan’s Congregation Shearith Israel, argued against the notion of a separation between Church and State. “The founding fathers...
Piecemeal Hebrew fluency – awwwws yeah
Behold my love, thine name is milingua.com Sign up for their amazing and free Hebrew word a day. Even if you can’t string together complicated sentences, you might learn how to say “used...
Bad Boys are BIG!
Channel your inner Charney I came in today to find that we had been Gawkered. For those of you who do not know, Gawker is one of those unbearably cool blogs, wading hip deep in a delicious morass of...
“Cohen stops being PC, admits latkes are superior”
It sounded like a title The Onion would publish, but it’s actually completely legit. Yesterday marked the 58th annual Latke-Hammentaschen debate (58 years of this??) at U Chicago, where it has...