When I was an undergraduate at Northwestern, I took a class in Jewish Studies primarily because I thought it would be easier for me since I had gone to Jewish Day School.Ironically, this example shows how Jewish Studies Departments have been colonized.Jewish Studies have always examined Jewish culture and history through the prism of Western thought (using whatever narrative had come to dominate academia at a given time), though it obscures this bias and its antisemitic effect.The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $250,000 of taxpayer money to two Jewish Studies professors and one Middle Eastern professor who have adopted...