Opinion

“Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.”

In a move that was meant to be as quiet as possible, Joe Biden has reinstated an Obama-era rule that cut scientific and technological funding in any area past the 1949 armistice line, a.k.a. the Green Line. Yes, the same government that has defended funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Virology Laboratory under the auspices of the Chinese Communist Party has drawn the line at Jews who live in their ancestral homeland.

June ended with a series of high-profile rulings from the United States Supreme Court that drove many on the left side of the aisle – elected, commenting, or glued to social media – fuming. The so-called “progressives” don’t know what actual progress looks like, so they make arguments that sound so objectively racist you would think that the Democratic Party was back to its slaveholding, KKK-founding roots.

In the decade since I’ve begun teaching history at Touro College, which has since become a university with a new logo and headquarters, I’ve had plenty of time to think about its mission and name. Unlike many private universities, its namesake Judah Touro died more than a century before its founding, and none of his personal wealth had any impact on this university. Like any institution with a name, it tries to maintain some sort of a connection to that individual and highlight his contributions to this country.

This week, while the world was distracted over news about a homemade submarine lost in the Atlantic Ocean, revelations about Hunter Biden’s corrupt dealings and those connections to his father, President Joe Biden, have come to light. Even the compliant media is starting to demand answers that the White House is refusing to give. So now, everyone should be asking: How involved was Joe Biden with Hunter’s pay-for-play schemes that have occurred for decades?

In a move that could impact historic pizzerias across the city, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has proposed new rules targeting coal-and-wood-fired ovens, seeking to reduce carbon emissions by up to 75 percent. This is just the latest in a long line of useless gestures made by bureaucratic activists based on fake science.