Analysis
Thursday, July 26th 2012 / Tuesday, July 31st 2012
Tisha B'Av, the mournful commemoration of Jewish national destruction and self-destruction which falls this weekend, hasn’t quite reached the status of Yom Kippur as a day of reflection and repentance. But it should. Especially here in modern Israel. We are repeating so many of the mistakes made by our ancestors in the First and Second […]
Thursday, June 7th 2012
Lehman, Marjorie. The En Yaakov: Jacob ibn Habib’s Search for Faith in the Talmudic Corpus. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2012. xi + 319 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8143-3480-5. It is most often taken for granted that rabbinic Judaism, out of which all present day interpretations of Judaism developed, is based on the writings of the […]
Monday, June 4th 2012 / Friday, June 8th 2012
There is no question that international sanctions against Iran are hurting. Andrew Torchia in “Analysis: Iran Economy Could Limp Along under Sanctions” notes that sanctions are shrinking Iran’s economy and pushing up inflation. Will that be enough to dissuade Iran from pursuing its nuclear ambitions? Torchia doubts that it will. Even though they are, […]
Friday, May 25th 2012
Kress, Jeffrey S. Development, Learning, and Community: Educating for Identity in Pluralistic Jewish High Schools. (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2012). xi+202 pages. ISBN: 978-1-936235-30-8. All Jews are agreed that the Jewish future, whatever it will look like, will be keyed to the education Jews receive. What should that education be like? Nearly all committed […]
Thursday, May 3rd 2012
Reitter, Paul. On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. 166 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-11922-9. The issue of Jewish self-hatred is much in the news of late. The term “self-hating Jew” is frequently bandied about, especially in the context of the Israel-Palestine conflict, where Jews espousing a pro-Palestinian line are often called […]
Wednesday, April 25th 2012
The Canadian Institute for Jewish Research held its first National Conference in Toronto at Shaarei Hashomayim Congregation on Sunday, 22 April, 2012, 12:00 noon to 3:30 p.m., on “Israel’s Threatened Security: The Failed ‘Arab Spring’, Iran’s Imminent Bomb, and U.S. Foreign Policy, before a large and enthusiastic c audience. Professor Frederick Krantz, Director of CIJR, […]
Tuesday, April 10th 2012
The “Arab Spring” began with a popular uprising in Tunisia a year ago, then spread to Egypt, where Hosni Mubarak, quickly abandoned by America, fell after a few weeks of demonstrations in Cairo. From Egypt it moved to oil-rich Libya, where—with the aid of NATO, and with Barack Obama “leading from behind”—Ghaddafi was finally overthrown […]
Thursday, March 29th 2012
The Dachau concentration camp display entitled Names Instead of Numbers [currently in Winnipeg] is not a Holocaust exhibit. The victims of the Hitler regime were indeed diverse but the victims of the Holocaust were Jewish. This is a fundamental distinction and one that requires further elaboration given recent press coverage (see links below). It […]
Tuesday, March 20th 2012
The “Arab Spring” began with a popular uprising in Tunisia a year ago, then spread to Egypt, where Hosni Mubarak, quickly abandoned by America, fell after a few weeks of demonstrations in Cairo. From Egypt it moved to oil-rich Libya, where—with the aid of NATO intervention, with Barack Obama “leading from behind”—Ghaddafi was finally overthrown […]
Sunday, March 18th 2012 / Tuesday, March 20th 2012
The following article was written by Rabbi Menachem Posner of Montreal’s Congregation Shomrim Laboker following CIJR’s recent Community Colloquium at the synagogue (Click HERE to view pictures of the event.) “Israel is now worse off than before the Arab spring,” was the gist of the fact-filled talks given at a March 4th colloquium co-sponsored […]
Monday, March 12th 2012 / Monday, March 12th 2012
Homogenous units based along tribal lines may be the prescription for Middle East stability, says Mordechai Kedar, whose experience in IDF Intelligence, fluent Arabic, and outspoken views have made him an official Israeli spokesperson to the Arabic media. “We know this because the most stable Arab countries are the Gulf Emirates and every Emirate is […]
Monday, March 12th 2012
Imagine for a moment that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khameini, at a Martyrs’ Day rally in Tehran, repeated his longstanding call for both the UK and France to be wiped off the map. Imagine then, that after failing for nearly a decade to persuade Iran to abort its nuclear program through diplomatic overtures and intensifying […]
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