henry j. frisch

[henry j. frisch @hfrisch]

@GilStudent The immigrants are first generation; their children are second.

[henry j. frisch @hfrisch]

@GilStudent https://t.co/ytNt69gJM1

[henry j. frisch @hfrisch]

@GilStudent All of the sixties the winters were brutal.

[henry j. frisch @hfrisch]

@theyanksonly They don’t even post batting averages on the scoreboard next to players’ names anymore. Not the metric is was (or remains in our old time brains).

[henry j. frisch @hfrisch]

@AnveeBhutani @sharonNYT Were they arrested?

[henry j. frisch @hfrisch]

@BryanHoch Could NY trip be about negotiating a buyout of his contract?

[henry j. frisch @hfrisch]

@CalltoActivism Jimmy Carter used to quote Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer: God gives burdens, also shoulders. Clearly Trump’s shoulders are not up to handling his burdens on their own.

[Josh Gottheimer @Josh4Jersey]

What New Jersey likes more than anything is a fighter. That’s why I’m with Kamala — and why I’ll be fighting to elect her this November.

Everything is on the line, and it’s time for us to unite against Donald Trump. I hope you’ll join me in supporting her.

[Ben LaBolt Archived @WHCommsDir46]

Following price cuts on consumer goods at Walmart, Target & Walgreens, car prices now projected to head down. @POTUS called on companies to stop inflating profit margins & keeping prices high at the expense of consumers after the supply chain crisis was resolved.

[henry j. frisch @hfrisch]

House Republican proposes legislation in response to U.S.-Israel diplomatic rift https://t.co/lv6tQo6Sh2

[henry j. frisch @hfrisch]

@RonFilipkowski Corset is the word.

[henry j. frisch @hfrisch]

@MisterSalesman @RpsAgainstTrump Of course we are better off! Stupid question coming from Trump.

[henry j. frisch @hfrisch]

@UrbanistaRamon @EdKrassen He’s modeling himself after Pharaoh in the Book of Exodus.

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

This week we learned that nearly half of all states achieved their lowest unemployment rate on record last year.

[henry j. frisch @hfrisch]

@AriJHirt @AssociatedFress Maybe Ye wrote it for her!

[Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman @AriBermanYU]

Did you know? Intimidation is a hate crime.

While the abject failure of some university presidents to rise to the moment was on full display at the U.S. Capitol yesterday, particularly sickening was how the presidents victimized their Jewish students a second time. In addition to being the targets of vile hate speech, these students were also informed that they have no recourse through their university authorities. 

The immediate widespread backlash has already caused the presidents to begin to walk back their public testimony before the House committee, but even as students await the review of their university’s code of conduct, they should be aware that while their universities may be failing them, the federal government provides powerful ways for them to take action.

One route, already much discussed, is for students who are subject to harassment to bring claims against their universities with the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights for violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, and national origin in programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance. 

Under the leadership of Secretary Miguel Cardona, the department is doing an admirable job of moving these cases forward with speed and publicity. In recent guidance it also pointedly reminded colleges and universities of our obligation to address discrimination against students “who are or are perceived to be Jewish, Israeli, Muslim, Arab, or Palestinian.”

There is a second path, though, which would have significant impact. In 1990, Congress passed and President George H.W. Bush signed the Clery Act, which requires all colleges and universities that participate in federal financial aid programs to keep records on certain categories of crimes on or near their campuses — and, importantly, to publicly report them. 

Hate crimes, including those through intimidation, are included in the reporting — as they should be, whether they are hate crimes against Black people, Muslims, or Jews. And the definition of intimidation for Clery purposes is the one used by the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting program: “placing another person in reasonable fear of bodily harm through the use of threatening words and/or other conduct,” even ”without displaying a weapon or subjecting the victim to actual physical attack.”

Calls for genocide may not be prohibited until they result in action by Codes of Conduct on these Ivy League campuses, as their presidents testified yesterday; the federal government, however, isn’t so indulgent.

This means that any Jewish student who feels physically threatened by the words or deeds of their fellow students — for example experiencing a marching protest on campus calling for Jewish genocide — should go to their campus police and report it as a hate crime. That intimidation will then appear in the university’s annual Clery report, to be shared with the public. This gives students a vehicle to take action and create a record of the rise in hate crimes on their campus. 

No doubt, the university presidents who testified yesterday know all of this. It is not a secret. Students are not powerless. They do not have to wait to be physically assaulted in order to register their experiences as targets of hate crimes. 

By documenting their experiences, the students will turn individual experiences into campus metrics, which can then be comparatively ranked with peer universities and enable concerned university and national leadership to identify, study and combat the rising tide of hate on college campuses. As important, they will allow prospective parents and students to make informed decisions about the campuses they will attend, and they might help their presidents recognize that intimidation of students based on their race, ethnicity, or religion is a hate crime — as is already clear to the federal government and all people of moral conscience.

[henry j. frisch @hfrisch]

@northjersey How come EV’s pay the tax if the supposed reason for it is cleaner air?

[Jeff Zients Archived @WHCOS46Archive]

More good news on the economy today: Annual inflation fell to its lowest level since March 2021 and monthly inflation was zero.

President Biden will not stop fighting to lower costs for hardworking families.

[Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @NotHoodlum]

“The reason I mix up names during my rallies is to point out that I’m the only candidate who ACED the mental acuity test. Ask my wife Melony or her son whatshisname.”