From Your Friend in the Shadows

  Disclaimer: As someone who is concerned about bias, I think it is important to state the following. I work at a university in a research capacity, where this work is funded by federal funds/grants. I am acutely aware that I will be discussing the utility of such work to the Nation and population. In addition, I will primarily be discussing 4-year university institutions that host undergraduate/graduate programs. Also this article specifically discusses only institutions in the United States. Lastly, I have not been paid by any institution and all opinions stated are solely my own.      As I am writing this, late July of 2025, Columbia and Harvard have had a majority of federal funding cut in response to their respective administrations’ inaction against antisemitism, both non-violent and violent acts, on their campuses. Keep in mind that Columbia and Harvard are the most high profile cases, other universities have also been penalized with federal funding ...

  Dear Reader, Whoever You may be…      It’s been a great several months since I wrote to you. Since the last letter, 33 Hostages were released back to Israel in a deal, another 15+ were recovered and given a dignified burial. At the time of writing, 50 Hostages remain in Gaza, it's been more than 640 days since that dreaded day, Oct 7th 2023. In the meantime, Israel had launched a series of strikes at the head of the terrorist snake, Iran. This was followed up by a series of attacks conducted by the United States Air Force on nuclear facilities in Iran, disabling an existential threat before it matured. Stateside, things have been moving along. Of those mentioned in my previous letter, Shai Davidai was finally cleared of any alleged wrongdoing at Columbia University and has since resigned. Tessa Veksler has since been honored by UJA(United Jewish Appeal)-Federation of New York as the inaugural recipient of their NextGen Leadership Award for her actions and...