Analysis
Wednesday, March 26th 2014 / Wednesday, March 26th 2014
The 1993 movie “Groundhog Day,” in which the character played by Bill Murray relives the same day over and over again, is an apt description of official Palestinian attitudes toward Israel and the peace process. The repeated Palestinian rejection of Israeli overtures raises the stakes and draws ever more attention to seducing the Palestinians […]
Saturday, March 15th 2014 / Monday, March 17th 2014
In memory of Malka – zl No other book of the Hebrew Testament has received such mixed reviews by good, God-fearing men as the Book of Esther. It has had the unique, but clear distinction of frequently being praised by many Jews and ignored or disliked by even more Christians. So appreciative of the […]
Friday, March 14th 2014 / Friday, March 14th 2014
Many centuries ago, just before Purim eve, two Jews ran into each other (literally) as they were rushing home for the holiday. At the time, each of them was carrying an oversized 3-corner hamentashen* pastry. Fortunately, neither of them was injured, but their 3-cornered pastries collided frontally in a way that produced a large […]
Friday, February 14th 2014 / Friday, February 14th 2014
Twenty-five years ago today, Ayatollah Khomeini brought his edict down on Salman Rushdie. Iran's revolutionary leader objected to the author's magical-realist novel The Satanic Verses because of its insults to the Muslim prophet Muhammad and responded by calling for the execution of Rushdie and "all those involved in the publication who were aware of its […]
Thursday, February 13th 2014 / Thursday, February 13th 2014
(Lawrence Solomon’s presentation to the First Sabina Citron Annual International Conference: Approaching Nuclear Showdown — Israel, Iran and the US after Geneva, Toronto, Feb 9 2014) Many consider the Geneva negotiations over Iran to be a betrayal of Israel by America. Yes, it certainly is a betrayal. But is anyone really surprised? […]
Monday, February 10th 2014 / Monday, February 10th 2014
A brouhaha erupted recently in Israel over a completely theoretical question: Could Israelis now living in the West Bank be allowed to live under Palestinian rule? This debate usefully focused attention on one of the trickiest and deepest issues of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and so it bears pondering. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu started […]
Friday, February 7th 2014 / Friday, February 7th 2014
It is often thought, as the great German sociologist Max Weber put it in two influential essays, that politics as a vocation [Beruf, “calling”] and scholarship as a vocation were inimical, indeed antithetical. Scholarship, he thought, demanded an objectivity distorted by necessarily partisan power-political engagement; while politics, committed to transforming reality, required practical compromises in […]
Monday, February 3rd 2014 / Monday, February 3rd 2014
As Americans seek to find an alternative to the stark and unappetizing choice between acceptance of Iran’s rabid leadership having nuclear weapons or pre-emptively bombing its nuclear facilities, one analyst offers a credible third path. Interestingly, it’s inspired by a long-ago policy toward a different foe — the Reagan administration’s way of handling the Soviet […]
Friday, January 31st 2014 / Monday, February 3rd 2014
Manfred Gerstenfeld speaks to Prof. of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Amsterdam University, Johannes Houwink ten Cate. For International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The writer has been a long-term adviser on strategy issues to the boards of several major multinational corporations in Europe and North America.He is board member and former chairman of the Jerusalem […]
Thursday, January 30th 2014 / Thursday, January 30th 2014
Two decades after the signing of the declaration of principles (DOP) by Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) on the White House lawn, there is something unreasonable in the world's continued adherence to the Oslo paradigm, tattered and battered as it is by years of a bloody fiasco. The Palestinian Arab leadership has consistently […]
Tuesday, January 28th 2014 / Tuesday, January 28th 2014
'If you build it, they will come," was the line that made Kevin Costner's character in Field of Dreams famous, as his Ray Kinsella was called upon to build a baseball field that would allow Shoeless Joe Jackson and the seven other players banned in the 1919 Black Sox scandal to play again. The […]
Monday, January 27th 2014 / Monday, January 27th 2014
Dr. Gerstenfeld interviews Prof. Shmuel Trigano on The Jewish Question in France. For International Holocaust Remembrance Day. “The position of the Jews in a country is largely determined by how its general population views them. This is often far more important than the Jews’ own conduct. French society and the Jewish community frequently have […]
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