Edward ⭕️ Lewine

“What Jews Do to Make Themselves Hated” According to the amended complaint in Canaan v. Carnegie Mellon University, that line was said directly to a Jewish student during a required architecture studio review, in response to her final project. The student, Yael Canaan, presented a final studio project centered on an eruv, defined in the complaint as “a small wire boundary that symbolically extends the private domain of devoutly religious Jewish households into public areas.” During the review, Professor Mary-Lou Arscott abruptly cut her off and compared the eruv to Israel’s security barrier, saying it was like “the wall Israelis use to barricade Palestinians out of Israel.” Then came the remark at the center of the case. After the presentation, Arscott told Canaan that her time would have been better spent exploring “what Jews do to make themselves such a hated group.” That eruv presentation marks the moment when a Jewish religious practice was politicized, equated with Israeli policy, and then used to justify a sweeping attack on Jews as a group. What happened next is central to the case. When Canaan reported the eruv incident, CMU’s DEI leadership did not intervene or discipline the professor. Instead, the Chief Diversity Officer delayed for months, failed to secure any apology or remedial action, and ultimately secretly recorded a meeting with Canaan without her knowledge — a recording the university later used against her. The lawsuit argues this was not a failure of the school's DEI office, but its function. And Qatar helped make it happen.

Back online after internet blackout. I grew up in Connecticut and have truly never seen an ice like this ever. The temperature is 30 degrees but the ice on our trees tops is not melting at all. Never seen anything like this. Anybody else?

To my new followers: I’m gonna continue to post Bobby and Dead content, as always. I’m a liberal American, it’s clear some of you are conservatives. That’s okay with me, the Dead always crossed divides. No hard feelings if you unfollow. I also love Peanuts, music, films, books.

A great idea! unless there’s a fire….