Rabbi Sacks zt’’l had prepared a full year of Covenant & Conversation for 5781, based on his book “Lessons in Leadership.” The parsha of Shoftim is the classic source of the three types of leadership in Judaism, called by the Sages the “three crowns”: of priesthood, kingship and Torah.[1] This is the first statement in history of the principle, set out in the 18th-century by Montesquieu in “L’Esprit des Lois” (The Spirit of Laws) and later made fundamental to the American Constitution, of “the separation of powers.”[2] Power, in the human arena, is to be divided and distributed, not concentrated in a single person or office.
Pro-Israel students and faculty are steeling themselves for a fight when classes resume next month at the 25 campuses of the City University of New York (CUNY), in the aftermath of a resolution passed by its Professional Staff Congress (PSC) calling Israel “a settler colonial state.” The resolution has prompted the resignation of more than 50 professors from the union, with many more expected, and has been condemned by staff, students, politicians and Jewish organizations as antisemitic. “We are looking at and anticipating a very hostile environment at CUNY,” said Ilya Bratman, the executive director of Hillel at Baruch College in Manhattan.
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