Harvard’s non-Zionist Jewish faculty were among the topics of a Substack “live” conversation that Mark Oppenheimer, who is professor of practice at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis and was founding director of the Yale Journalism Initiative, invited me to have last month. If you missed it when it happened, a recording and a rough unedited computer-generated transcript are above. When Oppenheimer published it on his Substack, under the provocative headline, “Affirmative action for Zionist professors?” he wrote, “the whole thing is super-interesting, and it’s civil without being boring. Have a watch.”
The “civil without being boring” phrase made me smile. Whether this video meets the definition in either dimension I leave to viewers to decide, but it is certainly a standard to aspire to.
