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Bret Stephenss Jewish genius NYT column cited controversial Ashkenazi IQ paper – Vox.com

| January 3, 2020

Any conservative columnist writing for the mostly liberal audience of the New York Times op-ed page is bound to attract their share of controversy.

The Secrets of NYT Racism – Fair Observer

| January 3, 2020

In publishing The Secrets of Jewish Genius, an opinion piece by regular columnist Bret Stephens, The New York Times demonstrated its commitment to free speech, at least for its stable of elite writers.

Grapevine January 3, 2020: The darkness before the dawn? – The Jerusalem Post

| January 3, 2020

The Yiddish reference to the darkness before the dawn states that before it gets light, it has to be really dark. Lets hope that this is also applicable to Naama Issachar, who is serving a seven-year jail sentence in Russia for carrying 9.5 grams of cannabis in her luggage while in transit from India to Israel via Moscow.Even though she had no intention of staying in Russia and had been unaware of the severity of Russian law with regard to narcotics, she was given what many people regard as an overly severe sentence. Her conditions were worsened when she was temporarily moved to another prison where she was not permitted to receive visits from her mother and also forbidden from receiving mail.

Will the 2020s Be the Decade of Eugenics? – New York Magazine

| January 3, 2020

Bret Stephens.

MK Gabi Ashkenazi: ‘The year 2019 is lost, and it’s not our fault’ – Arutz Sheva

| January 3, 2020

Gabi Ashkenazi Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90 Blue and White leader MK Gabi Ashkenazi spoke Saturday night about the events which led to the dissolve of Israel's 22nd Knesset earlier this month. "We turned over every stone in order to examine the possibility of not holding new elections," Ashkenazi told Israel's "Meet the Press" program

Chattanooga locals share the unexpected and sometimes unsettling results of their ancestry DNA tests – Chattanooga Times Free Press

| January 3, 2020

In 2016, Tiffany Herron asked her husband, Michael, for a DNA test for Christmas. "I wanted science to tell me what I was. I wanted evidence I wasn't dropped off by aliens," says the now-48-year-old creative writing graduate student at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga.

Why Talking about ‘Jewish Genius’ is Controversial – The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com

| January 3, 2020

Photo Credit: CLKER {Originally posted to the JNS website} Anyone who has, as I have, spent his professional life covering the Jewish world as a journalist is not likely to spend much time wondering why Jews are so smart. I dont think that genius is the best word to describe those in the organized Jewish world or how most Jews interact with that world, let alone defend their interests

Russian-speaking division of ZOA holds concert to raise awareness of State of Israel – Cleveland Jewish News

| January 3, 2020

More than 1,300 people attended a concert at the Master Theater in Brighton Beach, N.Y., on Dec. 26 hosted by the Russian-speaking division of the new Zionist Organization of America coalition slate running in the 2020 World Zionist Congress (WZC) elections, which will take place from Jan. 21 to March 11.

Civil Rights Icon Rep. John Lewis Announces Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer Diagnosis. Here’s What That Means. – Kaiser Health News

| January 3, 2020

Recent advances in medical treatment have given hope to some patients fighting the cancer, which is known for its grim survival rates. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) says he is "clear eyed" about the prognosis, though

Opinion | The Secrets of Jewish Genius – The Union Journal

| January 3, 2020

However the Jews are good rationalization obscures greater than it illuminates. Other than the perennial nature-or-nurture query of why so many Ashkenazi Jews have increased I.Q.s, theres the tougher query of why that intelligence was so usually matched by such bracing originality and high-minded objective.


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