Daniel Treiman
By Daniel Treiman
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News Cartoon Stirs Protests on Maryland Campus
The University of Maryland’s student newspaper is under fire for publishing a cartoon accusing an American student activist killed by an Israeli army bulldozer earlier this month of “stupidity.” University administrators and student protesters have blasted the decision of The Diamondback to publish a cartoon March 18 ridiculing Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old activist with the…
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News E-mail Spat Shines Light On Volatile Israel Debates After the Fire
With his anguished e-mail dispatches from strife-torn Israel, American-born Rabbi Daniel Gordis has become something of a mini-celebrity in the Jewish community. But some critics are crying foul over a recent posting in which he took aim at a left-wing rabbinical student. In a March 16 e-mail, titled “Take Off That Mask,” Gordis slammed Jill…
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News Movie Could Resurrect Old Charges Against Jews
Silver screen star Mel Gibson is raising red flags for some Jewish groups, who fear that a movie he is making will resurrect the age-old charge that Jews are responsible for Jesus’ death. The heads of the Anti-Defamation League and the Simon Wiesenthal Center questioned Gibson’s motives after a March 9 New York Times Magazine…
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News As Iraq Crisis Deepens, Divisions Remain in Congress
With war seemingly imminent, Jewish members of Congress remain deeply divided on the wisdom and timing of an American attack on Iraq. Jewish members of the House, nearly all of whom are Democrats, voted by a ratio of more than two-to-one last fall in favor of a resolution authorizing President Bush to use force, while…
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News Under Fire, Baraka Finds Support in Black Circles
When New Jersey’s controversial poet laureate, Amiri Baraka, spoke at Yale University February 24, many members of the Jewish campus community were appalled. Why, they wondered, would the university’s Afro-American Cultural Center and black student group host someone who had sparked a national uproar only five months earlier with a poem suggesting Israel had prior…
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News Far East of Eden, a Scholar’s Fascination With the Jews
China may not be the first place that comes to mind at the mention of “Judaic studies,” but nobody can say that this is due to lack of effort on the part of Xu Xin, China’s homegrown Jewish studies dynamo. The founder and director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Nanjing University and president…
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News Anti-Israel Rhetoric Divides Anti-War Coalitions
Anti-Israel rhetoric within the anti-war movement is raising concerns among Jews who oppose an American attack on Iraq. Much of their anxiety surrounds a controversial group, International Answer, formed after the September 11 attacks, that has played a key role in anti-war organizing. It sponsored the massive anti-war demonstrations in Washington, D.C, and San Francisco…
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News As the Left Says No to War, a Journal’s Editor Dissents
Mitchell Cohen is not the first commentator to make the case that the United States should use force to remove Saddam Hussein’s “fascist-like” regime from power — sooner rather than later — warning that “his menace, especially nuclear, will only swell” with time. What makes Cohen’s arguments noteworthy, if not original, is that they were…
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