Sunday Mail: DryBones at Yale?
Posting a cartoon every weekday leaves no room for me to simply share news, ideas, and other stuff with you. So welcome to 'Sunday Mail: Letters from Dry Bones', the new, once-a-week Dry Bones feature.
The news about Yale that you might have heard this week was about the Yale University Press decision to remove images of Mohammad from a book that they are about to publish. The book is called The Cartoons That Shook the World. Instead of claiming an academic or scholarly motive, they were honest enough to explain that the censorship was entirely due to fear of Islamist violence.
A story that you probably never heard is that Yale is the only university on the entire American continent with an institute for the study of antisemitism. It is called YIISA (the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism.) And that brings us to Item Three:
I am proud to share with you that I have been appointed a Fellow of the Yale Initiative. I will be doing a scholarly work for YIISA on the relationship between cartoons and antisemitism. Yup. It's Dry Bones at Yale. Stay tuned for further developments!
Labels: America, antisemitism, Cartoons, Dry Bones, Intimidation, Islam, Yale, YIISA
27 Comments:
Mazltov! And I hope you'll share with us whatever you learn. I've always wanted to get an academic explanation for the genesis of antisemitism. I think is started with the first pope.
Yaakov, you are looking good, but not quite looking like a Yaley. Love you, (Rabbi) Haim Cassorla, Formerly of Arad and now in Jacksonville, FL
It is not fear at Yale, it is cowardice at Yale.
DB,
Good luck, sure you will do a good job. B'hatzlacha.
Congratulations, your loyal fans...
B"H
Jews are (meant to be) loyal royalists to Hashem. A hateful characteristic for any king, any time.
Score one for Yale.
MAZEL TOV!!!
Congratulations on your Yale appointment. Do you think the appointment might have influenced your temperate response in Item One to Yale's cowardice and subservience to PC?
Mazel Tov !! I hope you can still publish new Dry Bones, and help the Yalees to express problems and concerns succinctly. We admire your great sense of irony!
Best Wishes
Shmuel Benyoseph
Mazel Tov! I hope you are courageous enough to point the finger where it belongs...European Christianity.
Mazel Tov! ...and if they ask you to make a presence on campus in New Haven, I hope that while you are there, you will drive up the road and visit your fans in Boston. I have been one of them since you first started DryBones - the year of my first trip to Israel.
Aquarius
mazal tov. at least it isn't harvard, the "renaissance" party's pied a terre in the new world.
Just want to let you know what my brother, who graduated yale back in '49 commented when I forwarded your Blog on Yale. He gets the Yale Allumni maggazine and to him it seams to have become the center for gays and ultra liberals etc. Gays were s featured on the cover of the a recient alumini magizine.
By the way, Enjoyed seeing your cartunes which she was translating into hebrew years ago while working with your daughter at Luz. Harry Lu
Bravo to Yale for creating YIISA. As for item #1, isn't it sad that we have permitted ourselves to become so terrified of violent reprisals that our freedom of speech has been compromised.
Zul zion mit mazel un baruches, HOWEVER, I FIND IT FRUSTRATING TO BE ABLE TO EMAIL ANY OF YOUR FINE CARTOONS ON TO ANY OF MY FELLOW E-MAILERS. THE NONSENSE OF FILLING OUT THE BOX WITH THE EXACT INSCRIPTION AT ITS SIDE, NEVER WORKS, WHY DON'T YOU INSERT A SIMPLER METHOD, SO THAT YOUR FINE CARTOONS CAN FIND ITS PROPER PLACE AMONG ALL GOOD HEARTED AND SPIRITED PEOPLE WHO LIKE A GOOD STORY TOLD IN A DIFFERENT MANNER?? I CANNOT SEND ANY OF YOUR "STUFF" ON AND IT IS A "SHANDA "
Norman Kaffee, Roswell, Ga kafco1@bellsouth .net.
A "study" group has never, in my experience, replaced a decision made from cowardice.Yale had no trouble publishing cartoons lampooning G+d in Christian religions. They even had a shot at Buddha. But they're afraid of mentally ill jerks if they lampoon Islam?
Islam, it seems, is really a sect much like Jim Jone's people.
מזל טוב יקוב! כל הכבוד!
congratulations, I'm sure you'll inject a great deal of common sense into the place
wonderful. i hope your studies will enlighten the academic world as well as us your readers!
First Skull and Bones at Yale, and now Dry Bones!
Somehow, I trust Dry Bones more than Skull and Bones.
Mazal tov Yaakov! Your amazing insights will certainly put the "cat among the pigeons" there! I pray they are paying attention!
More strength to you,
HeatherC--OZ
Mazel tov,
Perhaps you will find as a by product, a way to use cartoons to educate the masses out of their antisemitism.
I did.
Mazel Tov Bones ! Hope you will keep us updated!
Shalom
I live in Connecticut and will you be able to speak here?
Will you be exploring Jewish Antisemitism as well? Now that should be really interesting.
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