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Volume 13, Issue 46:
“This plague of Covid-19 knows of no religious, ethnic, national or socioeconomic borders. It has brought fear, illness, mourning, and even death to far too many families across the globe. Tonight, many of us will be commemorating the holiday of Passover alone and in isolation, without parents, children and grandchildren. As horrific as this is, we Jews have been through much worse, in our history. I marvel at how many Jews, while in the concentration camps were able to track the days of the Jewish calendar through the cycle of the moon, and still commemorate the holidays in those infinitely worse surroundings.
Passover is the ultimate holiday of national liberation, and it is the hope of our people’s liberation that has served to sustain us through our darkest days of exile. We Jews are the people of hope. Even Israel’s national anthem in called "Hatikvah - The Hope.” We, Jews, know a bit about overcoming adversity. Today, we are a free people who have our own land, and it is because of the many sacrifices of the builders of the state of Israel and those in the Israeli Defense Forces that all of the Jewish people are free today. Tonight, as we sit down for this unusual seder, we should never lose our sense of gratitude for our blessings, and never give up the hope that we will survive this 11th plague, and that better days are ahead for us all."
----- Sarah N. Stern
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** Colleges and Title VI: Stopping Anti-Semitism ([link removed])
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** By Sarah Stern / Spring 2020 / inFocus ([link removed])
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“Never underestimate the power of ideas. Philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor’s study could destroy a civilization” – Heinrich Heine
Among the manifestations of contemporary anti-Semitism are its ubiquitous nature, and its emergence in some of the least expected places. One might expect it, perhaps, in a working-class bar where uneducated patrons might utter racial stereotypes. However, today’s anti-Semitism has received its most pernicious endorsement in academia, where professors give anti-Semitism an insidious, but powerful intel- lectual veneer, which has made it tolerated in higher echelons of polite society.
The etiology of all of this is innocent enough. After the Soviet Union launched “Sputnik” into orbit on Oct. 4, 1957, Americans began to feel that the Soviets were providing their children with a superior education, and our students were woefully unable to compete with the Soviet threat in the fields of math, science, foreign languages and cultures. Congress responded by passing the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) on Sept. 2, 1958. The act’s major intention was to create graduates who would best serve the national defense interests of the United States.
Part of the original legislative purpose of the NDEA, which later became folded into Title VI of the Higher Education Act, was to give students fluency in area studies, such as Asian, Latin American, and Middle Eastern Studies, and languages so that we could compete with the Soviet threat. Taxpayer funds were allocated to universities to establish departments in these fields.
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