Words of the Week: Nicholas Lemann
“I don’t need to explain to people in my congregation that being Jewish and the state of Israel are not two completely unrelated topics. But a lot of people at Columbia are completely mystified, or pretend to be, by why so many Jewish people think there’s a connection. They don’t know much about Jewish life or Jewish history, or what it means to be Jewish.”
Source: Nicholas Lemann, quoted in Andrew Silow-Carroll, “What the Co-Chair of Columbia University’s Antisemitism Task Force Says People Get Wrong About the Campus Protests” (JTA)
