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SAVING FREE SPEECH … from ITSELF confronts the confusions and contradictions around free speech: do we really want it to always apply without restriction, or is some regulation warranted and necessary when free speech is weaponized, as in the tragic events in Charlottesville in the summer of 2017, in such a way as to to harm innocent people. Distinguished […]
Some two to three percent of the Israeli population has contracted the coronavirus, at least 10 times more than the number of confirmed cases. That is the conclusion of the first Israeli study based on a representative sample of serological (antibody) blood tests, the Times of Israel reports. According to the researchers, this means that […]
Dr. Shuly Rubin Schwartz, currently provost, has generational ties to the Jewish Theological Seminary.