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During President Clinton’s 1992 campaign against the incumbent George H.W. Bush, his senior campaign consultant, James Carville (full disclosure: I am a big fan of Mr. Carville) implored campaign workers to focus on three simple direct messages that voters could understand. The slogans included, “Change vs. More of the Same’, ‘Don’t forget healthcare’, and the infamous, ‘It’s the economy, stupid’. Carville’s focus on important issues but using real language, struck a nerve in voters and Clinton was elected President.
Steven M. Cohen speaks at the Stanford University humanities center in 2016. (YouTube screenshot)
NEW YORK Female Jewish studies scholars remain irate that Steven M. Cohen, an admitted sexual harasser and disgraced scholar, was guest-starring in invitation-only Zoom gatherings with fellow scholars.
Cohen, who was forced out of his tenured position at Hebrew Union College in 2018 after allegations of sexual assault and harassment, has never refuted the allegations. While stripped of all official titles, roles and affiliations with Jewish and academic institutions, he has never faced criminal charges or civil lawsuits. And so his name and profile faded until last month when word got out that he, at the instigation of several other senior scholars in Jewish studies, was a central figure in private, invitation-only gatherings on Zoom discussing the study of American Jewish life.