Analysis
Thursday, December 22nd 2016 / Thursday, December 22nd 2016
The message of Hanukkah is clear to anyone who reads the Biblical books of the Maccabees. Only by following the lessons of our history can we rekindle the Hanukkah spirit, our tradition, and give the Jewish People the hope, the strength, and the will to be a light unto the nations. We must […]
Monday, December 12th 2016 / Monday, December 12th 2016
“If Christianity [in the Middle East] survives, it will not be because of any interest taken by Christians in our part of the world, but rather because the State of Israel, the people of Israel, and conscientious Jews everywhere are dedicated to saving it,” said Dr. Paul Merkley, Professor of History at Carleton […]
Wednesday, November 2nd 2016
President Janet Napolitano Office of the President, University of California 1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor Oakland, CA 94607 Dear President Napolitano, We are 47 religious, civil rights, education and research organizations, as well as 176 individual faculty members on campuses across the country. Many of our members are part of the […]
Sunday, October 2nd 2016 / Thursday, October 6th 2016
Rosh Hashanah 5777 Baruch Cohen According to tradition, Rosh Hashanah, the “New Year” and Yom Kippur, the Day of Judgement, are “Yomim Noraim”, “days of awe” – solemn days. The significance, history, and message of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are embodied in the great treasures of Jewish […]
Friday, September 30th 2016 / Thursday, October 6th 2016
As U.S. Election Looms, Terror Bombings at Home & Marginalization in M.E. Portend a Difficult Year Ahead Frederick Krantz As the November Presidential election approaches, several recent events underline the U.S.’s increasingly dangerous domestic and foreign situations. A series of bombing incidents (the perpetrator, an Afghan Muslim […]
Thursday, September 29th 2016 / Thursday, October 6th 2016
As the November Presidential election approaches, several recent events underline the U.S.’s increasingly dangerous domestic and foreign situations. A series of bombing incidents (the perpetrator, an Afghan Muslim terrorist, was quickly caught) occurred across the September 17-18 weekend. One exploded pipe-bomb caused 29 casualties in Manhatten, another exploded harmlessly in a Jersey […]
Thursday, September 1st 2016 / Thursday, September 1st 2016
Cary Nelson, Dreams Deferred: A Concise Guide to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict & the Movement to Boycott Israel. MLA Members for Scholars Rights and Indiana University Press, 2016. 396 pp. ISBN: 978-0-253-02517-3 It is not an exaggeration to say that the diverse community of supporters of Israel sees […]
Wednesday, August 31st 2016 / Wednesday, August 31st 2016
One of the salient characteristics of spiritual life in Europe in the early modern era (the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries) was an increased sensitivity to supernatural phenomena, particularly those ascribed to the demonic realm. In the Christian world in this era, this was expressed in a veritable epidemic of […]
Friday, June 10th 2016 / Friday, June 10th 2016
The festival of Shavuot underlines the spiritually significant lesson that the release from bondage and winning of political freedom does not constitute freedom unless it culminates in the spiritual discipline of duty to Am Israel, and Israel’s acceptance of the Torah. Na'aseh v'nishma: “We will do and we […]
Wednesday, May 25th 2016 / Wednesday, May 25th 2016
On May 12th 2016, the Montreal community gathered to celebrate sixty-eighth birthday at yet another beautiful celebration at Phillips Square. Of course, CIJR was front and center to join in on the festivities and march from Phillips Square to Place du Canada to show our support for Israel. Thanks to everyone who came out […]
Monday, April 25th 2016 / Monday, April 25th 2016
The Arab Middle East today remains beholden to its foundational culture, Bedouin tribal culture. We see Arabs to this day cleaving to their kin groups, their tribes, their religious sects, manifesting in their actions group loyalty, support of closer over more distant, and balanced opposition, each party defined as much by whom […]
Thursday, April 21st 2016 / Thursday, April 21st 2016
In Loving Memory of Malca z”l “And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.” (Passover Haggadah, [Exodus 1.7]) “Even the poorest Jew, a recipient of charity, must, on the eve of Passover, eat only in a […]
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