Is this really the only way to teach about racial equality? The obvious answer is no. When, about 10 years ago, I headed a pro-Israel organization that educated and trained high school and college students, I heard a frequent refrain from Jewish college students,...
Recently I’ve been holding a series of discussions with liberals and moderates on Jewish Institute for Liberal Values’ and The Speech Project’s Podcast, the SpeechCast, about the current challenges to freedom of expression. They’ve been fascinating, but some of the...
Register Here- Tuesday, June 29, at 2 PM ET LiveStream EventJILV will hold another Livestream event at 2:00 PM ET. Rabbinic Leaders: Why We Value the Free Expression of IdeasMeet Our PanelistsScholar-in-Residence for the Jewish Institute for Liberal Values, Dr....
David BernsteinHello, this is David Bernstein, I am founder and CEO of the new Jewish Institute for liberal values. And this is our inaugural webcast and podcast. And I couldn't be happier to do it with Monica Osborn. Monica is an academic. And in trauma studies and...
It is untenable to suppress scientific inquiry The new Pew Study on Jewish Americans in 2020 is out, and there’s some good news. The Jewish population is stable and perhaps even growing. The majority of Jews participate in Jewish life in one form or another. And the...
What could possibly be wrong with a term as benevolent as “equity”? Ibrahim X. Kendi defines the term in his best seller How to be an Antiracist. “Racial inequity is when two or more racial groups are not standing on approximately equal footing,” he asserts....
I remember watching the 1981 film Skokie on television with my parents. I was 14, and they let me stay up late that night to see the entire film.The movie was about the American Nazi Party selecting the suburb Skokie, just north of Chicago, as the site of its next...
The first time I remember hearing the term “woke” was at a gathering of Black and Jewish activists in New York City in the fall of 2016. It was also the first time I encountered Black Lives Matter activists in person. I was the head of a Jewish organization that...
I’ve long been fascinated by the varied explanations of why woke ideas spread. Here are the ten that I find most compelling. There are three kinds of explanations among the ten: one looks at the contagiousness of the woke ideas themselves; a second looks at the...
The problem with "standpoint epistemology." Growing out of the Critical Race Theory (CRT) movement, a culture of censorship has taken root in many of our institutions. CRT makes two basic observations: First, that bias and prejudice exist not just in the hearts...
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