Ruth Wisse, a professor of Yiddish at Harvard — that bastion of Jewish learning — has written an essay for the philo-semitic journal National Affairs on the perils of liberal Holocaust education programs which universalize Jewish suffering — thus trivializing it by removing that suffering from its larger historical context — which undermines its intended goal of reducing ‘antisemitism’... 

The 17-year-old had no criminal record and authorities say he was barely noticed in school until he returned Wednesday with a handgun and a purpose. Entering the high school where he graduated last year, he burst into morning classes and opened fire, taking students and teachers by complete surprise. “Children were sitting at their tables, with pencils still in their hands, their heads fallen...