Analysis
Friday, May 9th 2014 / Friday, May 9th 2014
May 4 is National Memorial Day in the Netherlands. Originally, it was a remembrance day for the murdered and fallen during Germany’s occupation. In the past few years, the issue of memorializing the dead has been partly diluted and stripped of its significance. In several local memorial meetings, Jews are not mentioned specifically, even if […]
Thursday, May 8th 2014
Despite widespread predictions to the contrary, J Street failed dismally to gain admission into the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations (Presidents Conference). It was unable to obtain the constitutionally required two thirds majority and could not even muster a simple majority. Only a third of the constituents supported its affiliation. An embittered […]
Monday, May 5th 2014 / Thursday, May 15th 2014
In Loving Memory of Malca z”l Happy Birthday Israel! As Israel celebrates its 66th anniversary, the Jewish state is stronger today than ever before. From the ruins of Europe, the ashes of the gas chambers, the concentration camps, Egypt, Morocco, Poland, Russia, Romania and from dozens of other lands, the Jewish people have […]
Friday, April 25th 2014
It is clear that by the end of the month the Obama-Kerry peace initiative will be declared a failure. While the efforts may have been sincere, the lack of historical understanding and reading of the signs doomed these efforts from the beginning. Historically, what is prevalent among American foreign policy makers is the view […]
Wednesday, April 23rd 2014 / Thursday, April 24th 2014
It is a damning reflection on the civilized world that one rarely hears a word of condemnation of the criminal Palestinian society in which the murder of Jews is not only considered laudable, but has today effectively become a vehicle for achieving upward social mobility, both socially and financially. Let us relate hypothetically to […]
Thursday, April 17th 2014 / Thursday, April 24th 2014
The first idea that is expressed in the Jewish Passover is the certainty of freedom. With the Exodus a new age was brought about for humanity: one of redemption from slavery. If the Exodus had not taken place, the course of human history and human destiny would have been radically different. The redemption, the Geulah, […]
Monday, April 14th 2014 / Monday, April 14th 2014
The Passover story as told in the Haggadah recounts how Israel moved from darkness into light; from ignorance and a history of idolatry into freedom and glory. A permanent and a continuing saga, Passover is an event which eternally calls people of all generations to hope and anticipation of a new dawn. Indeed, the springtime […]
Friday, April 11th 2014
PART 1: Discovering the voice of King David in the Psalms When I was young but already taking myself seriously (some said, too seriously) as a Christian and a student of Bible it rarely occurred to me to read the Psalms. I associated Psalms either with daily devotional booklets (which seemed to provide the whole […]
Wednesday, April 9th 2014 / Wednesday, April 9th 2014
The apparent breakdown in the American-brokered Israeli-Palestinian negotiations is a good time to re-evaluate basic assumptions of the diplomatic process. Such an evaluation inevitably leads to the conclusion that a comprehensive agreement to end the conflict is not within easy reach. The Palestinians long ago took a decision to reject the two-state solution as Israelis […]
Monday, April 7th 2014
Stephanie Shosh Rotem: Constructing Memory: Architectural Narratives of Holocaust Museums (New York: Peter Lang Publishers, 2013) How do we remember the Holocaust? What role do museums play in constructing a collective memory of the Holocaust? Almost seventy years after the end of the Second World War, the need to commemorate the victims has not diminished. […]
Monday, April 7th 2014 / Monday, April 7th 2014
It is increasingly obvious that the two-state solution is close to obsolete, although it is still not politically correct to say so in polite diplomatic company. The two-state solution has little chance of coming into being, because the Palestinians do not want the constricted West Bank state that Israel can give them. And they are […]
Thursday, March 27th 2014 / Thursday, March 27th 2014
For nearly twenty years, under the leadership of Middle East historian Efraim Karsh and his Middle East and Mediterranean Studies Programme, Kings College London was a beacon of light with respect to the study of Israel and the Middle East. King's has a superior reputation as one of Britain's foremost research and teaching institutions and […]
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