The Torah and the World – Twelve Questions

Eric Hoffer and the Jews

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] In May 1968, about a year after the Six Day War, he wrote an article for the Los Angeles Times titled “Israel’s Peculiar Position:” The Jews are a peculiar people: things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews. Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it, Poland and Czechoslovakia did it. Turkey threw out a […]

America’s pathological denial of reality

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by Caroline Glick In America of December 2015, natural conclusions are considered irresponsible, at best.   Police officers conduct a manhunt after a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California December 2, 2015. (photo credit:REUTERS)  How much lower will America sink before it regains its senses? Wednesday, two Muslims walked into a Christmas party at a community service center in San Bernardino, California where one worked. They were wearing […]

Moslem Refugees: Compassion vs Reality

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by Isi Leibler www.jpost.com/Opinion/Candidly-Speaking-Temper-compassion-toward-Muslim-refugees-with-reality-436099 Opinion 12/02/2015 20:49 To stem the exodus of millions of Muslims to Europe, there must be an intense effort to stabilize the Middle East and bring an end to the civil war in Syria and defeat IS. Syrian refugees shelter in a makeshift tent in the Bekaa Valley, part of the 1.15 million refugees being hosted by Lebanon. (photo credit:MOHAMED AZAKIR / REUTERS) Sensitive […]

How Israel became a water superpower

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Hikers near the Sea of Galilee, Israel’s largest freshwater lake (Yossi Zamir/Flash90) Seth M. Siegel, author of ‘Let There Be Water,’ hopes Israel’s world-class water practices create a ripple effect of peace BY SIMONA WEINGLASS December 1, 2015, 2:08 pm 9   When Seth M. Siegel, author of “Let There Be Water: Israel’s Solution for a Water-Starved World” began his book tour, he expected to get a lot […]

Shari’a and Violence in American Mosques

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Shari’a and Violence in American Mosques by Mordechai Kedar and David Yerushalmi Middle East Quarterly Summer 2011, pp. 59-72 (view PDF) Link to Original Article 367 How great is the danger of extremist violence in the name of Islam in the United States? Recent congressional hearings into this question by Rep. Peter King (Republican of New York), chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, have generated a firestorm […]