(Photo: The light of illumination goes dark at Chicago’s Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies.)
[Note: Late on Friday, the Chicago Tribune article I discuss in this post was heavily updated to include additional details about the "Imaginary Coordinates" exhibit and the criticisms that led to the Spertus Institute's decision to cancel it early. Primary among those criticisms: essentially, that merely thinking about the borders of the Holy Land is somehow "anti-Israel". So the moral of this story seems to be, as far as the Spertus Institute is concerned, it's OK for there to be only one side to a story...]
As reported in today’s Chicago Tribune, this week, downtown Chicago’s Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies bowed to pressure from Jewish United Fund (JUF)/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago president Steven Nasatir and closed its multimedia exhibition on Holy Land boundaries, “Imaginary Coordinates”, three months early.
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