Liel Leibovitz
Editor at Large at Tablet Magazine
Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute
Columnist at First Things
Co-Founder, Editorial Director, and Host at Rootless
Editor at Large at @tabletmag, senior fellow at @HudsonInstitute, columnist at @firstthingsmag, works full time for HaShem.
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1 week ago |
wsj.com | Liel Leibovitz
Your browser does not support HTML5 video. 0:00Paused0:00 / 6:36An angry mob last month blocked access to the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in an attempt to keep members from voting on next year’s budget. Israel Katz, the defense minister, was forced to arrive via helicopter. The budget passed, but Israelis were shaken by what some said was a new level of escalation in the effort to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “It really reminded me of what I saw on TV on Jan.
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2 weeks ago |
tabletmag.com | Liel Leibovitz
Earlier this year, Israel’s Ministry for Diaspora Affairs announced it will kick off 2025 by investing $4 million in Project Aleph Bet, a new initiative designed to boost enrollment inJewish day schools in the United States. The original sum, officials said, was supposed to be larger, but more than a year of war and hundreds of thousands of displaced citizens led to budgetary constraints. And yet, the government decided to proceed with the initiative.
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2 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Liel Leibovitz
This was under discussion on a January morning on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The moderator was Chana Ruderman, a former university seminar instructor, and the spirited participants, wearing crisp uniforms, were 11- and 12-year-olds, approaching John Keats’s immortal lines with the enthusiasm their peers usually reserve for Spider-Man or Juan Soto. Creative ideas were welcomed but textual proof was demanded to back up each statement.
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3 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Liel Leibovitz
Observations during a morning at Emet, the first Jewish classical school in America. Is truth truly beauty, and beauty really truth? And is that all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know?
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3 weeks ago |
thejc.com | Liel Leibovitz
Press is waking from its stuporWith Trump a new age begins and we’ve no choice but to once again become the people who bear witness, writes Liel Leibowitz
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I fully agree with @LahavHarkov. The Israeli police must either accuse Zvika Klein of an actual crime or release him immediately. Jailing reporters for reporting is a very, very bad precedent.
Plenty of Israeli journalists have "contact with a foreign agent" every day, including from countries that are hostile to Israel - which is why Zvika Klein was open about the government of Qatar inviting him to Doha when he wrote about the trip. Journalism is not a crime. I
Today is a very good day to share some personal news: I have accepted the role of president of Columbia University. My first and last act as president is to shut down Columbia University. As we say in Morningside Heights: In Lumine Tuo Videbimus Lumen.
"We care about two things: Intelligence and courage." Halle-freakin'-lujah.
College admissions are unjust. Not just biased. Not just broken. Unjust. Students spend high school anxiously stacking their résumés with hollow activities, then collect generic recommendation letters and outsource their essays to tutors or AI. Admissions at elite colleges now
