PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Voices are emerging to counter the din raised on college campuses by self-styled social-justice advocates as students who don't accept the need for "safe spaces" defend free speech against activists who would muzzle peers to weed out "microaggressions."
At Princeton University, where activists have staged campus demonstrations and sit-ins to force administrators to remove former President Woodrow Wilson's name from schools, buildings and grounds, a group calling itself the Princeton Open Campus Coalition recently coalesced to counter the activists, according to a report in National Review, a conservative magazine.
This month, Jews around the world come together in synagogues, community centers, and schools to commemorate Kristallnacht — the night of broken glass. We do this to remember what happened on the fateful nights that marked the beginning of what would become the Holocaust.
In Hebrew, the word for "remember" is "zachor." But zachor doesn't just mean recalling the events of the past. Zachor means learning the lessons of the past. Zachor means putting those lessons into practice. And zachor means honoring those who live on in our memory.
