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Islamic Terrorism on the World Stage Post Paris Attacks
Over the weekend, the Islamic State issued a Statement on the Blessed Onslaught in Paris against the Crusader Nation of France.” The “believers” who carried out the attack, it says, regarded Paris as...
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Antisemitism/Islamic Jihad/Do they have anything in common
Antisemitism/Islamic Jihad – Do they have anything in common? And are they equally important? Prof. Gunther Jikeli of Germany has just published a book on his research of antisemitism among Muslims in...
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Antisémitisme / Islamisme Qu’ont-ils en Commun? Et sont-ils tout aussi...
Un billet de Abigail Hirsch traduit par Hélène Anna ISGAP, l’ Institut pour l’Étude de l’Antisémitisme parraine des conférenciers effectuent des recherches sur le phénomène de l’antisémitisme. J’ai...
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American Historical Association: Anti-Israel-HAW-resolution-2016
I became aware of the American Historical Association’s meeting in Atlanta where they are planning to reintroduce the same motion that was voted down in January of 2015. Here is the video of Jeffrey...
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Sources of Antisemitism in Islam
What is the source of antisemitism in Islam? What is the cause of Muslim antisemitism? Why have Arab countries and the Palestinians been so adamantly against accepting and acknowledging the Jewish...
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Benny Morris at McGill
Benny Morris, the Israeli historian of the 1948 war in Israel, recently spoke at the first meeting of this year’s series of lectures sponsored by ISGAP, The Institute for the Study of Global...
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Antisemitism: Rational or Irrational?
Antisemitism has been at times likened to a disease or a mutating virus. Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Laureate and Auschwitz survivor, made the remark, “The world has changed in the last 2,000 years, and...
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Eyeless in Gaza: how fake media works
The fake news coming out of the Palestinian Media and their supporters is often not at all reported or recognized in the Western Press. A worthy documentary on this subject Eyeless in Gaza was...
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Free Speech and Fake News on Campus
In this post I explore academia, professors, and their legitimate sounding papers and books that may even use legitimate concepts but apply these concepts fallaciously. I refer to the left, using the...
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Climate Change?
I have been following the news about climate change. Now I have to admit that I am not a scientist but just an average person like you struggling to understand the situation. In this spirit I have...
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Emil Fackenheim’s Thought: CIJR Conference
Recently I attended and filmed the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research Conference on “The Jewish Thought of Emil Fackenheim” in Toronto (Sunday, 25 October 2015). Emil Fackenheim (1916-2003) was a...
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Israel and the World: 73 years after the Shoa.
Thought: Words: Action: Today is Yom Hashoa ve Hagvura – The day Jews both mourn and celebrate. They mourn the destruction of more than six million innocent men, women, and children, hunted down for...
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Cantor Moshe Kraus Speaks at Faith Temple and Shaftesbury High School in...
Pastor Rudy Fidel and his wife Gina were so impressed with Cantor Kraus’ memoir of his life experiences “Moshele: Der Zinger: How My Singing Saved My Life”, that they organized a week of events for...
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Is Peace Possible Today?
Last week I attended the CIJR sponsored talk by Moshe Kedar in Montreal. The title of the talk is Israel at 70. Prof. Kedar actually explains how Israel became Israel and then brings us up to date...
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Antisemitism: For the Curious
I have written many posts about antisemitism because it is so infuriating. Lies about Jews and Judaism and Israel spoken with authority, such that one is easily deceived. Here is a brief history by...
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Why Were Copies of the Talmud Burned in Medieval Europe?
For those of you who are not aware of medieval theology and its imperial struggles, Talmudic books were burned in the public square from the early to the late middle Ages by Christian Papal...
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Rosh Hashana: Jewish New Year: What it Means to Jews and to Non-Jews
Rosh Hashana is an unusual holiday since it is both communal and personal. In one of his brief talks Rabbi Steinmetz explains that the only time a Jewish community is obligated to hire a Rabbi and...
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Why does the State of Israel continue to observe the National Day of Mourning Tisha B’Av, which commemorates the destruction of the two temples and the Jewish peoples’ two previous exiles from the...
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Academics as Theologians: Judith Butler and Stephen Hawking
The internet wages war mainly via words and images. However words and ideologies are indeed important in understanding and in influencing the world. The Jewish Bible claims that G-d’s ideas and words...
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know about the Shofar but Were Afraid to Ask
At this time of year you are probably getting used to hearing Happy New Year, Shana tova, and the words Rosh Hashanah bandied about and wondering what is this exactly. Rosh Hashana is a combination of...
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