Fourth Estate of the Union

Six days ago - in his final column for The New York Times - one of their finest ever and a Bulletin favorite, David Brooks said goodbye in a must-read column about a country he loved in the paper he leaves. Read it please!

Later that weekend at the 92nd Street Y at the annual "State of World Jewry" another NY Times columnist, Bret Stephens, "described antisemites as an 'axis of the perfidious, the despotic, the hypocritical, the cynical, the deranged and the incurably stupid.' He did not hold back and also asserted that supporters of the Anti-Defamation League and other Jewish defense groups should largely abandon their current strategy for combating antisemitism and instead redirect their resources toward strengthening Jewish life itself. He called for “dismantling” the ADL, the leading Jewish group fighting antisemitism, while acknowledging that the ADL’s CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, was in the audience.

"Stephens said antisemitism is largely impervious to appeals to tolerance, reminders of Jewish and Israeli accomplishments, or mandatory Holocaust education. Instead, he called for large-scale investment in Jewish day schools, cultural institutions, philanthropy, media, publishing and religious leadership, arguing that the infrastructure already exists but lacks sufficient scale and coordination."

Yes, spending time on two such "heavy lifting" columns may be a lot for one weekend, but what else can you possibly do when the temperatures are in the single digits?

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