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Decade-Roundup from Israel

January 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Anti-Semitism, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Hizbollah, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Law, Lebanon, Liberal Pundits, Media, Palestine, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War, War on Terror

JERUSALEM — Ste­fanie Gard­ner looks at how media has changed in the United States and Israel (but leaves out the suc­cess of Fox News and Israel’s first, free daily, “Israel Today”). Liat Collins says Israel went through a “boom-and-bust” decade. Car­o­line Glick calls is a “low-and-dishonest” decade. Bradley Burston iden­ti­fies Israel’s “ten” worst errors of […]

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Islamic Irony

January 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Civil Liberties, Europe, Humor, Islam, Law, Politics, Religion, War on Terror

I was wait­ing for this to hap­pen: The police foiled an attempt to kill an artist who drew a car­toon depict­ing the Prophet Muham­mad that sparked out­rage in the Mus­lim world, the head of Denmark’s intel­li­gence ser­vice said Sat­ur­day. And I can­not put it any bet­ter than the per­son who sub­mit­ted this head­line to the […]

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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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Jewish Charity

December 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Culture, Dating, Education, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Marketing, Palestine, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East

JERUSALEM — So I was sit­ting at home when the door­bell rang. I opened the door, and there was a haredi (ultra-Orthodox) man with brochures and dona­tions forms. I knew what was com­ing, but he inter­jected a ques­tion that made me stop before I could shut the door: “Are you mar­ried?” (Did he hear some­how that […]

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How to Fight Terror

December 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Afghanistan, Blogosphere, Culture, Education, Egypt, Europe, Globalization, Hizbollah, Immigration, Iran, Islam, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Marketing, Media, Palestine, Politics, Religion, Technology, The Middle East, War, War on Terror

JERUSALEM — For­eign Pol­icy looks at how Al-Qaeda recruits fol­low­ers: …al Qaeda suc­ceeds because, for more than two decades, the net­work has waged a suc­cess­ful infor­ma­tion cam­paign that pushes its mes­sage out to the world as effec­tively asym­met­ri­cal as its use of sui­cide bombers on the bat­tle­field. The most impor­tant point to under­stand is that […]

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Alleged Terrorism

December 24th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Civil Liberties, Culture, Islam, Journalism, Law, Media, Politics, War on Terror

The U.S. Depart­ment of Home­land Secu­rity improp­erly col­lected infor­ma­tion on U.S. cit­i­zens and legal res­i­dents. Is any­one sur­prised? One impor­tant thing to watch: How does the fed­eral gov­ern­ment define “ter­ror­ism” and “ter­ror­ist”? It is a slip­pery slope. Can peo­ple who attach hate­ful bumper-stickers to SUVs be con­sid­ered “eco-terrorists”? Can the bankers who almost brought down […]

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Civil and Jewish Law

December 24th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Bible, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Education, Europe, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Law, Personal, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Talmud, The Middle East, Torah

JERUSALEM — The long-running issue of whether Israel should be a Jew­ish state based only on eth­nic­ity or on reli­gious law as well recently came to a head again: Jus­tice Min­is­ter Yaa­cov Nee­man came under fire Tues­day, after appar­ently express­ing hope that the state’s cur­rent legal sys­tem will soon be dic­tated by the Torah… Another former […]

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Israel and Britain

December 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Anti-Semitism, Britain, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Europe, Immigration, Islam, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Law, Media, Palestine, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War

JERUSALEM — Rela­tions between Eng­land and Israel might not be as warm as one might think: One of Britain’s most emi­nent his­to­ri­ans has assailed the country’s pol­icy towards Israel, ques­tion­ing why Queen Eliz­a­beth II has vis­ited a host of despotic regimes but has never made an offi­cial visit to the Holy Land. Speak­ing at the Anglo-Israel […]

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