J.J. Goldberg of the Jewish Daily Forward takes note of moves in the Jewish community to censor liberal voices, in this case Florida Representative Debbie Wasserman Schulz. A Democrat, she was disinvited from speaking at a Miami synagogue on Memorial Day after a complaint from a member of the synagogue and chair of the local Republican committee. The issues may differ, but like Victoria Kennedy's disinvite from Anna Maria College in Massachusetts, the notion flourishes that disappearing people from the podium will make their ideas disappear.Or, is it just women who must disappear.

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels is a former editor of Commonweal. 

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