Born in Washington, DC to the then-Cambodian ambassador to the U.S., Susie Koroghli (née Thay) is the granddaughter of King Monivong, who ruled the country until his death in 1941. Raised in the U.S. as a Buddhist, Susie eventually converted to Judaism and married Ray Koroghli, a Persian-American Jew. They recently traveled to Cambodia to celebrate the bat mitzvah of their daughter Elior, as Menachem Posner writes:

Elior’s bat mitzvah was the first Jewish milestone ever celebrated by the Cambodian royal family, and the first time many of the royals ever tasted food from a kosher kitchen, catered by Chabad of Cambodia, which was founded by Bentzion and Mashie Butman in 2009. The Koroghli family and their friends celebrated Elior’s bat mitzvah in their hometown of Las Vegas when Elior turned twelve a year ago.

The celebration in Cambodia this year was the brainchild of Susie Koroghli, who wanted her children . . . to know of their royal roots, and it took place on Hanukkah, close to Elior’s thirteenth birthday. [The] event will be chronicled in the Royal Palace Record Book.

The bat-mitzvah party was highlighted by the kindling of a large menorah. . . . After the party, the family met the current ruler, King Norodom Sihamoni, [Elior’s second cousin], and the queen mother, Norodom Monineath.

While it is commendable that administrators of several universities finally called upon police to crack down on violent and disruptive anti-Israel protests, the actions they have taken may be insufficient. At Columbia, demonstrators reestablished their encampment on the main quad after it had been cleared by the police, and the university seems reluctant to use force again. The school also decided to hold classes remotely until the end of the semester. Such moves, whatever their merits, do nothing to fix the factors that allowed campuses to become hotbeds of pro-Hamas activism in the first place. The editors of National Review examine how things go to this point:

Since the 10/7 massacre, Columbia’s Jewish students have been forced to endure routine calls for their execution. It shouldn’t have taken the slaughter, rape, and brutalization of Israeli Jews to expose chants like “Globalize the intifada” and “Death to the Zionist state” as calls for violence, but the university refused to intervene on behalf of its besieged students. When an Israeli student was beaten with a stick outside Columbia’s library, it occasioned little soul-searching from faculty. Indeed, it served only as the impetus to establish an “Anti-Semitism Task Force,” which subsequently expressed “serious concerns” about the university’s commitment to enforcing its codes of conduct against anti-Semitic violators.

But little was done. Indeed, as late as last month the school served as host to speakers who praised the 10/7 attacks and even “hijacking airplanes” as “important tactics that the Palestinian resistance have engaged in.”

The school’s lackadaisical approach created a permission structure to menace and harass Jewish students, and that’s what happened. . . . Now is the time finally to do something about this kind of harassment and associated acts of trespass and disorder. Yale did the right thing when police cleared out an encampment [on Monday]. But Columbia remains a daily reminder of what happens when freaks and haters are allowed to impose their will on campus.