The Jerusalem Post – Israel News November 20, 2015: Why only now? terrorism By DAVID M. WEINBERG \ 11/19/2015 21:41 History teaches us that the fearless defeat the feeble. The faithful overcome the fickle. The rooted rout the irresolute. Let’s face it: Radical Islam of the 21st century is deeply devoted and daring. It is driven by intense religious-fascist fervor, and a purist-apocalyptic vision of a global caliphate […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN 11/15/2015 20:58 There is a palpable feeling that the attacks on France represent a turning point in history. Police patrol near Notre Dame Cathedral following a series of deadly attacks in Paris , November 14, 2015. (photo credit:REUTERS) The state of emergency declared by French President Francois Hollande on November 13 in response to the massive terrorist attacks in Paris put in place […]
Muslim immigration and European Jewry www.jpost.com/Opinion/Muslim-immigration-and-European-Jewry-419337 By CHARLES BYBELEZER \ 09/28/2015 21:31 A Syrian refugee kisses his daughter as he walks through a rainstorm towards Greece’s border with Macedonia, near the Greek village of Idomeni. (photo credit:REUTERS) In the prevailing climate of political correctness, policies are too often driven by emotional arguments rather than sober analysis, a reality currently playing out in the debate over the mass influx […]
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks speaks at Kings College, London, on The Relevance of the Bible for Law and Ethics in Society:
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks gives a most incisive psychological analysis of the mind of the Terrorist, in every generation. Understanding a phenomenon is the first step to being able to effectively deal with it. GP: This lecture is based on Rabbi Sacks’ new book, Not in God’s Name. It is an important book and should be studied. Rabbi Sacks, shlit’a, is probably one of the most eloquent spokesmen […]
משנה מסכת אבות פרק א משנה ב שמעון הצדיק היה משירי כנסת הגדולה הוא היה אומר על שלשה דברים העולם עומד על התורה ועל העבודה ועל גמילות חסדים משנה יח רבן שמעון בן גמליאל אומר על שלשה דברים העולם עומד על הדין ועל האמת ועל השלום שנאמר (זכריה ח) אמת ומשפט שלום שפטו בשעריכם Pirke Avot, Mishneh 2: Shimeon Ha Tzaddik, one of the last remaining members […]
click here for: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks speaks to the House of Lords on the establishment of Universal Principles of Moral Behavior that can be accepted by all Religious leaders throughout the world.
C.I. Lewis, the well-known 20th century American philosopher from Harvard notes in his book The Ground and Nature of the Right that the concept of obligation pervades all of human thinking. Obligation does not refer only to Moral behavior – it applies to every aspect of thinking and behavior that can called right as opposed to wrong. There is a right and wrong way to calculate numbers. There […]
H.J.RES.104 — To designate March 26, 1991, as `Education Day, U.S.A.’. (Enrolled Bill [Final as Passed Both House and Senate] – ENR) –H.J.Res.104– H.J.Res.104 One Hundred Second Congress of the United States of AmericaAT THE FIRST SESSIONBegun and held at the City of Washington on Thursday, the third day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-one Joint Resolution To designate March 26, 1991, as `Education Day, […]
Law is the concern of all humanity…”Pray for the welfare of the state” (Avot 3:2), for it is the state that establishes law in the land: “The king by justice establishes the land” (Proverbs 29:2). And all of this is equally true of non-Jewish governments, for the descendants of Noah were also commanded concerning dinim. (Rav Avraham Koo, introduction to tractate Sanhedrin (1934) (see R. Moshe Tzvi Neriah, […]