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Minnesota Vikings majority owner Zygi Wilf should fire head coach Brad Childress instead of wide receiver Randy Moss, who, as was announced on Monday, will be released after a mere four weeks. It is Childress, not Moss, who is turning this season into a tragic train wreck for a team that was one of the […]
A couple months ago, I wrote to you about the intrinsic value of the act of voting. I wrote about how it was the most important act one could undertake in a democracy—how making your views known in the most fundamental of ways was the best way to celebrate your American heritage. At the time […]
Next week, Brandeis will be hosting the Israeli “occupation” awareness week. What the organizers of this event do not know is that they are only legitimizing a baseless accusation at the expense of the Jewish state. The “occupation” refers to Israel’s hold over mainly the West Bank, since it withdrew from Gaza unilaterally in 2005. […]
This past weekend, we all celebrated Halloween in one way or another. Halloween (and Purim) are opportunities to explore the other self, another version of one’s own personality. Many girls dress up as “sexy-something,” in tops that are too tight and skirts that are too short. I have friends who hate Halloween for the very […]
Frustration, disillusionment and despair. Words like that describe how progressives feel about President Obama and the Democratic Congressional majority that just got thumped at the polls. They are angry about things like President Obama’s reluctance to fight for the public option on health care bill that went through congress, and that he did not fight […]
Last Thursday, Brandeis students were treated to a frank talk by Holocaust survivor and activist Hedy Epstein on her experience working for peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In a wispy, breathless tone, she related a story that Jewish audiences needed to hear: how a refugee of the Nazi Holocaust came to dedicate her life to […]
So I’ve had a week to stew after attending the Hedy Epstein event held last Thursday, and I’ve reached a conclusion. While I sympathize with what Students for Justice in Palestine and the Jewish Voice for Peace were trying to do, bringing Epstein to campus not only highlighted the divisions between us (Brandeis students) but […]
The following column is a satirical piece in which major media and political figures are placed in an entirely imagined scenario—any resemblance to actual situations is purely intentional. * * * WASHINGTON D.C. (The Hoot) – Christine O’Donnell was arraigned on charges of witchcraft today at the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. The high court […]
Over the course of this midterm election cycle I have noticed the emergence of two very distinctive narratives—a Democratic one and a Republican one—framing the trajectory of the Obama presidency and its initiatives thus far. According to the Democratic narrative, President Barack Obama arrived in the White House with an unprecedented mandate for change. Indeed, […]
How should young people vote on Election Day? We shouldn’t vote at all. We have no meaningful stake in any of the two or three choices presented to us. We have failed to provide ourselves with a meaningful stake in the election’s outcome. I am aware that important people would disagree with this assessment. President […]
