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COMMUNITYBRIEFS Penn Law Deletes Public Statement on RBG’s Death
THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Carey Law School
deleted its public statement on Supreme Court Justice Ruth
Bader Ginsburg’s death because it included a critical quote from
Amy Wax, a controversial Jewish law professor there, the Daily
Pennsylvanian reported.

The statement was posted on the law school’s Facebook page
on Sept. 23 and removed later that day after students complained.

Wax’s quote came from a review she wrote for the Claremont
Review of Books on Jane Sherron De Hart’s “Ruth Bader
Ginsburg: A Life.” The quote starts out with “Let us now praise
Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” then mentions several favorable aspects
of her career.

“But these accounts paid a price for their relentlessly lauda-
tory tone,” Wax wrote. “Missing was any serious appraisal of her
professional legacy, its place within larger judicial and legislative
debates, and its implications for the shifting and often conflicting
roles of women in modern society.”
Later in the review — but not included in the Penn Law state-
ment — Wax described Ginsburg’s work ethic as an outlier for
women. “Although perhaps she inspires a few women to greater
heights, RBG and the worship that attends her may lead others to
feel ashamed of the lives they have chosen or of what they really
want from work, men, and family life,” Wax wrote. Students
who objected to Wax’s inclusion in the Penn statement cited her
negative appraisal of RBG as inappropriate for the moment.

Wax is no stranger to controversy.

In 2017, she claimed that she had not seen a Black student
graduate in the top quarter of the law school’s class. That
prompted prominent Penn trustee emeritus and Penn Law
School overseer Paul S. Levy to step down. And Wax was barred
from teaching a required first-year civil procedure course.

Last year, Wax argued at a conservative conference for an
immigration policy favoring Western country immigrants over
those from non-Western countries. She said the United States
would be “better off with more whites and fewer nonwhites.”
PICC Honors Temple Dental School
The Philadelphia-Israel Chamber of Commerce honored Temple
University’s Maurice H. Kornberg School Dentistry and its
Bridge to Peace Initiative on Sept. 30 with its 2020 Life Sciences,
Bio and Healthcare Innovation Award.

PICC said the award is presented to “regional businesses
and academic institutions that exemplify the organization’s
goals of broadening business and research ties between Greater
Philadelphia and Israeli innovators in life sciences, bio and
healthcare.” “Under the leadership of Dean Amid Ismail, [the school] was
instrumental in bringing together investigators from Hebrew
University Hadassah School of Dentistry, Al Quds University
School of Dentistry and 40 additional research institutes to
advance dental care for disabled children and adults as part
of the Bridge to Peace program,” PICC President Matthew I.

Fingerman said.

Temple joined 40 other dental schools and organizations in
2011 in signing a charter to transform Bridge for Peace into an
expanded enterprise called the Alliance for Oral Health Across
Borders. The alliance, which is headed by Ismail, promotes peace
and builds relationships of understanding through oral health.

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