Copyright 2013 The Phyllis Chesler Organization Thu, 23 May 2013 13:54:28 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss The Phyllis Chesler Organization :: Writings http://www.phyllis-chesler.com webmaster@phyllis-chesler.com (The Phyllis Chesler Organization) webmaster@phyllis-chesler.com en-us http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1119/the-crisis-of-individualism Thu, 23 May 2013 09:00:00 EST Suddenly, the price of speaking one's mind has gotten very high. You may agree on every issue save one; dare to share your independent or dissident view—and you might shut down the conversation or lose all your friends. Since this kind of censorship http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1118/taking-the-fifth Thu, 23 May 2013 09:00:00 EST Lois Lerner, the Director of the IRS Unit responsible for ruling on applications for tax-exempt status has refused to testify. She is taking the Fifth. There is an eerie resonance in America and especially in Hollywood, when someone "takes the fifth." It http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1117/i-sleep-in-hitler-room-a-wakeup-call Thu, 23 May 2013 09:00:00 EST Tuvia Tenenborn has German youth lining up to buy his book on Germany today. It is about an incurable disease. But he can't find a publisher in the land of the free and the home of the brave. I first met Tuvia Tenenbom, the author of the provocatively http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1116/is-world-war-needed-to-protect-our-children Thu, 16 May 2013 09:00:00 EST Every time a news story breaks about a woman imprisoned as a sex slave (for example the Cleveland Three) people are, appropriately, shocked and horrified. What is even more shocking is the fact that such crimes are committed every single day in every http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1115/what-new-about-the-new-anti-semitism Thu, 9 May 2013 09:00:00 EST Professor George Jochnowitz, a gentleman and a scholar, (he is a linguist), has just republished his review of my 2003 book The New Anti-Semitism. The Coming Crisis and What We Must Do About It. I wrote this book in 2001-2002, and published it almost http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1114/the-reluctantly-racist-filmmaker Wed, 8 May 2013 09:00:00 EST Films wield great power over people; cinematic images are forever burned into memory and imagination – even if the memories implanted are false, not based on true facts – but on a sophisticated and biased manipulation of reality. I have just watched http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1113/for-ruth-a-tribute Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:00:00 EST Is it possible that certain people are really angels who quietly but directly intervene in the lives of thousands of people? I am talking about my dear friend, Ruth Bergman Jody, whose Memorial at the Ethical Culture Society I just attended. I knew Ruth http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1112/sharanksy-non-solution-for-women-worshippers Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:00:00 EST I do not understand what motivates sensible, even heroic, people to claim what is clearly a defeat as a victory. I am talking about the Women of the Wall struggle for equality for women at Jerusalem's Western Wall (Kotel) which has recently spawned http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1109/women-of-the-wall-the-struggle-continues Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:00:00 EST Nearly 25 years ago, I was blessed with the privilege of being part of the first-ever woman's prayer service at the Western Wall (the Kotel). We prayed out loud, with a Torah; many women were religiously learned, some were rabbis, many wore their prayer http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1108/jonathan-kay Fri, 8 Feb 2013 09:00:00 EST I disagree with my colleague Jonathan Kay's recent article "American super-hawks demand to know: 'Are you Jew enough?'" First, let me thank him for referring to me as "a feminist-turned anti-Islamist" and not as "anti-Muslim" or as an "Islamophobe." http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1107/the-gatekeepers Sun, 3 Feb 2013 09:00:00 EST The crowd at the Lincoln Plaza Cinema on the upper west side is mainly Jewish and liberal—ultra-liberal. They behave as if they are superior to all "Ostjuden," the illiterate, superstitious, unwashed Eastern European Jews–and therefore, in their http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1106/india-gang-rape Wed, 2 Jan 2013 09:00:00 EST And so, poor soul, she has died and been cremated in New Delhi, the victim of a public and murderous gang-rape. Six men attacked her for more than an hour, raping and beating her with a heavy metal bar which damaged her intestines beyond repair. They http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1105/my-work Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:00:00 EST Dearest People: Please forgive my extraordinary silence. Know that I have continued my life's work as a wordsmith. My new book is now almost final. I forgot how much I enjoy writing books. I will never forget this again. One escapes time, one leaves http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1103/ny-times-terrorism-apologist Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:00:00 EST Mainly, I lead a quiet, writer's life. I read, I write, I listen to music, I gaze out my window. Sometimes, I visit a museum or see a movie. I read two or three books and several manuscripts every week and about one hundred articles and many hundreds of http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1101/palestinian-human-sacrifice Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:00:00 EST I have been getting email and phone calls from dear friends in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. The Tel Avivians and Jerusalemites are sober but slightly shocked to have woken up to a lesser, but still a Sderot-like reality. Senior citizen friends cowered in