Analysis
Tuesday, September 19th 2017 / Tuesday, September 19th 2017
ROSH HASHANAH 5778 – 2017: SOUNDING THE SHOFAR Loving Memory of Malca z”l The sounding of the shofar is a symbol of the New Year, of renewal, and of unending hope for peace, love, and better world for all. The blast of the shofar reminds us of our mighty […]
Friday, September 15th 2017 / Friday, September 15th 2017
The time has come to tell the world’s “liars”, boldly and forthrightly, that Israeli “occupation” is the BIG LIE of our age. We’ve all seen the propaganda effectiveness of “the big lie” many times before, and this one too is working its indecorous distortion of the truth. The truth is […]
Friday, August 25th 2017 / Friday, August 25th 2017
Far more dangerous than a handful of terrorist bombers and assassins are insidious ideas pervasive in universities and the media that undermine and weaken Canada, America, and the West generally. Three of the most destructive of these ideas are that the ills of the world are the result […]
Saturday, July 1st 2017 / Friday, July 21st 2017
Jonatan Meir, Literary Hasidism: The Life and Works of Michael Levi Rodkinson. Translated from Hebrew: Jeffrey G. Amshalem. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2016. ix + 257 pp. ISBN: 9780815634478 When Martin Buber introduced Hasidic tales to the world through his polished retellings and philosophical commentary, he presented them as […]
Friday, May 12th 2017 / Friday, July 21st 2017
May 12, 2017 Dear President Shoukri; I am sorry to say that I believe York University is no longer a place of learning. If there is a professor there who is allowed to greet young students by accusing them of “white privilege”, as well as other shameful exhibitions from other greeters, then that […]
Monday, May 1st 2017 / Friday, May 5th 2017
David Levy, The Zionist Entity: The Jewish State in the 21st Century. Mazo Publishers, 2015. “Zionist entity” is a label some critics of Israel use to delegitimize the Jewish State. Its roots lay in the Arab and Muslim anti-Israel propaganda war to deny the Jewish People the right to […]
Tuesday, April 4th 2017 / Tuesday, April 4th 2017
The Jewish people's historic contribution to civilization and mankind was essentially drawn from the Torah. It related to the domains of theology, philosophy, psychology, morality, and law, which together reflected the spiritual world of man and life. The instrumentalities of life, or proceeding from science to technology, did not preoccupy the classic and […]
Friday, March 31st 2017 / Monday, April 3rd 2017
Avraham Novershtern, Kan gar ha’am hayehudi: sifrut yidish be’artsot habrit [Here Dwells the Jewish People: A Century of American Yiddish Literature] Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2015. 747 pp. ISBN: 978-965-493-822-8. The phenomenon of secular Yiddish literature, beginning in the late nineteenth century, is an immensely important part of the story of Jewish cultural creativity […]
Friday, March 10th 2017
In Loving Memory of Malka – z”l The Book of Esther describes not just one, but all historical periods. It remains forever new because enemies of the Jews will not allow it to grow old. The Book of Esther breathes love for Judaism, even as it tells of, and foretells, the everlasting […]
Thursday, February 2nd 2017 / Thursday, February 2nd 2017
For anthropologists, it is 1935 all over again, and the Nuremberg laws, apparently an inspiration for boycotting, divesting, and sanctioning Jews, just as when Germans, under Hitler’s National Socialists boycotted Jews, refused to patronize Jewish stores, and punished wholesalers who supplied Jewish stores. When early in 2016 the Parliament of […]
Wednesday, January 11th 2017 / Wednesday, January 11th 2017
Guarding against millennial dreams, and remaining aware of both the role of Realpolitik in diplomacy and of the usual gap between electoral proclamations and actual policy, what can we reasonably expect insofar as Israel and the Middle East are concerned from the new Administration of President Donald J. Trump? Most generally, […]
Saturday, December 24th 2016 / Wednesday, January 11th 2017
GUARDING AGAINST MILLENIAL DREAMS, WHAT CAN WE REASONABLY EXPECT FROM NEW TRUMP ADMINISTRATION? Frederick Krantz Guarding against millennial dreams, and remaining aware of both the role of Realpolitik in diplomacy and of the usual gap between electoral proclamations and actual policy, what can we reasonably expect insofar as Israel and the Middle East […]
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