Category Archives: Academia

When Did Date Rape Become A Crime?

Everything that my friends enjoyed doing at university is now a felony (I had CFS my whole time at UCLA and wasn’t up to any wickedness). How did this happen? When did manly hijinks with willing and not so willing … Continue reading

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AJU Professor Yitzchak Kerem Interview Part II

Part One Luke: "How does your activism fit with your scholarship?" Yitzchak: "It complements each other. I try to be objective. I’m critical of Sephardic organizational life. I received a lot of resistance when I tried to organize a Sephardic … Continue reading

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The Term ‘Scholar’ Is Given Away Too Early

Jewcy.com calls Andrew Bostom a "scholar of Islam." Andrew can’t read read Arabic. Just as anybody who can’t read Hebrew can not be a scholar of Judaism and somebody who can’t read German can’t be a scholar of Samson Raphael … Continue reading

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