This Week’s Jewish Press

Chumi Friedman blogs:

For decades college campuses have been filled with left-wing professors attempting to influence their students to follow the paths of liberalism, socialism and in some cases even communism. Over the years they have been successful and the consequence is a generation of secular Jews who don’t know much about yiddishkeit. Read about one man’s goal to change all that with Campus Kiruv.

Otto Stern, Victor Hess, Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka – all geniuses, all Jews. " From 1870 to 1950, Jewish leadership in such fields as literature, music, visual arts, biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, and philosophy was from four to fourteen times the Jewish proportion of the population in Europe and North America." What’s the secret behind Jewish genius? Is it simply that "The Jews are God’s chosen people?

One of the hardest challenges for someone in authority is knowing when to criticize and when to stay silent. Whether its a parent dealing with a child, a teacher with a student or an employer with an employer, sometimes its what you don’t say that is most important.

And then cement candlesticks, a day at Darchei Binah and Jewish hip-hop.