As always, an honest and open conversation. This week David is speaking with Moms for Liberty activist Brooke Weiss. Weiss is Moms for Liberty chapter chair for Mecklenburg County in North Carolina, Vice Chair of the North Carolina Legislative Committee, and the Moms for Liberty 2023 National Summit Business Development Manager.

As always, an honest and open conversation. The Florida Board of Education approved a new set of standards for how Black history should be taught in the state’s public schools, sparking criticism from education and civil rights advocates. Among the many criticisms, most notably by Vice President Kamala Harris, was the assertion that slaves learned skills that “could be applied for their personal benefit.”

Show Notes:

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The Harvard Crimson: More Than Three-Quarters of Surveyed Harvard Faculty Identify As Liberalhttps://jilv.org/zgi7

Cambridge University Press: The Nature and Consequences of Ideological Hegemony in American Political Sciencehttps://jilv.org/vhvx

The Washinton Examiner: COVID-19 and 'woke' culture drive enrollment increases at conservative religious colleges https://jilv.org/l6f5

The Bulwark: Sorting Out the Florida Teaching-About-Slavery Mess by Cathy Young
https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/sorting-out-florida-teaching-about-slavery-mess

As always, an honest and open conversation. This week we will discuss when something or someone should be branded antisemitic.

Show Notes:

The Bernstein Antisemitism Test

George Soros is portrayed as a puppetmaster:

https://images.app.goo.gl/rrCdqM19qLYx64aB7

https://images.app.goo.gl/Guy73TJgtFTXCoV36

Moms for Liberty newsletter quoting Hitler:

https://images.app.goo.gl/7c2naqjVe5h54txD6

Marco Rubio's Tweet about George Soros:

https://tinyurl.com/yvspzjbp

Rep. Pramila Jayapal calls Israel a racist state at Netroots Nation event :

https://tinyurl.com/mrxuap9c

Rep Pramila Jayapal statement after many in her party rebuked her:

https://images.app.goo.gl/XG7i3iD4S7P5m7X27

As always, an honest and open conversation. This week we will examine the term "woke," which has a long history and varied meanings. Should David and Brandy strike the word from their vocabularies? Is it ok to use if you use air quotes? Should they even be having this podcast?

As always, an honest and open conversation. This week we will examine a number of items in the news: Starbucks' race-related $25 million settlement, Arkansas Univeristy dissolving DEI,, the testimony before Congress on gender-affirming care, and the UK decision to ban puberty blockers. David and Brandy weekly explore on the podcast the possibility of a middle ground even if extreme voices in the culture wars insist that they pick sides.

As always, an honest and open conversation. This week we will examine the newly released White House strategy to combat antisemitism. David and Brandy weekly explore on the podcast the possibility of a middle ground even if extreme voices in the culture wars insist that they pick sides.

Show notes:

The White House National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism

https://jilv.org/kmh6

David Bernstein's Jewish Journal oped: Do Jews Get to Define Antisemitism? Yes and No.

https://jilv.org/P7wG

As always, an honest and open conversation. David and Brandy explore on the podcast the possibility of a middle ground even if extreme voices in the culture wars insist that they pick sides. This week we will not broadcast on Friday due to the observance of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot. In this episode, we will look at the current issues that comprise the concern of a social breakdown in Israeli society, such as judicial reform, economic inequality, political polarization, and ethnic tensions.

As always, an honest and open conversation. This week we will Look at the antisemitism that stems from the Right and the emergence of it on the Left. David and Brandy weekly explore on the podcast the possibility of a middle ground even if extreme voices in the culture wars insist that they pick sides.