21-Century Maccabees

Ross Stevens Most of you have watched the disgusting display of antisemitism that took place on Capitol Hill this week: the Presidents of Harvard, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania, playing pathetic word games to avoid condemning Jewish Genocide. If you haven’t watched it, you must: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuTfzcNIeDI As we prepared to light the first candle of Chanukah last night, it was shared that a modern-day Maccabee boldly stood up to Penn’s President, Liz Magill. Ross Stevens, the founder and CEO of Stone Ridge Asset Management and the founder and Advisory Board Chairman of the Stevens Center for Innovation in Finance at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, announced that he and Stone Ridge were pulling their donation to Penn, valued at approximately $100 million, which funds the Stevens Center. “Mr. Stevens and Stone Ridge are appalled by the University’s stance on antisemitism on campus,” wrote Stevens’ attorney. “Absent…