And the Joke is On...Columbia

Dry Bones is a creation of Yaakov Kirschen. The first time I ever heard Yaakov Kirschen speak was at Columbia University back in the early 1980s. He spoke of many things, mostly urging us to come live in Israel. He challenged us to come, to leave the comfort of America to make our homes here in Israel. Many of the people who listened to him that day have found their way here, including me. Some 20 years later, I am more impressed than ever with Dry Bones and Kirschen's often unique and humorous way of taking events and making them so clear, so obvious, so incredibly absurd...and he's done it again - this time - with complete justification - to Columbia University.

At Columbia, Kirschen entertained us, made us laugh, and warned us that life for Jews outside of Israel was, at best, precarious. Now Yaakov Kirschen has weighed in with his own opinion on Admadinejad at Columbia. Columbia students and guests heard nothing new in what Ahmadinejad had to say - he's said it all before, the same denial, the same hatred, the same plans for destruction of our country and the rise of the great Islamic nation he sees in his dreams. Columbia students gained nothing from the visit, other than the further ridicule of their university (and mine). No great honor or respect was received, no rise in prestige. Columbia didn't even have the guts to put its own symbol on the platform behind Ahmadinejad because even they were, ultimately, deeply ashamed. Too proud to call it off, Bollinger and his administration has created yet another fiasco to gravely damage and embarrass the image and name of Columbia University on a global scale.

No - the students at Columbia University didn't learn anything new...but, as you will see below - perhaps Ahmadinejad did: