JERUSALEM — Benny Morris, a professor of history in the Middle-East Studies Department at Ben-Gurion University, is something of an enigma. Himself born in Israel in 1948, the year of the re-founding of the country and the resulting war with neighboring Arab states, Morris is the leading figure in the so-called “New Historian” movement in […]
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Book Review: 1948 — The First Arab-Israeli War
January 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Anti-Semitism, Book Reviews, Books, Britain, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Egypt, Europe, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War
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Book Review: “The Kuzari,” An Introduction
December 26th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Anti-Semitism, Bible, Book Reviews, Books, Boston, Christianity, Education, Europe, Islam, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Massachusetts, Palestine, Personal, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Science, Talmud, The Middle East, Torah
First in a series A Preface BOSTON — When I was Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Spare Change News, a non-profit newspaper that covered social-justice issues including poverty and homelessness while providing jobs selling the publication to homeless people, I attended a local, Passover seder in Cambridge for homeless people. Local Jews had hosted such an […]
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Book Review: Schmoozing With Terrorists
November 5th, 2007 · No Comments · Anti-Semitism, Book Reviews, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Europe, Hizbollah, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Lebanon, Palestine, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War on Terror
Most of what the Western public knows about terrorism comes from one of two sources: 1.) Pundits and analysts who purport to be experts but have probably never spoken to a terrorist; and 2.) Official statements and videos from terrorists that are as insightful as press releases from the mayor’s office. Aaron Klein, the Jerusalem bureau chief […]
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