Most Clicked This Week
- “America's team of real estate developers and financiers may beat Iran's diplomats at the bargaining table”
- #MAGA "Jerusalem is now looking at what may be the most pro-Israel White House in the history of the bilateral relationship"
- Students find affordable housing in shipping container apartments
- This all has to change: "Palestinian curriculum rejects the legitimacy of Israel’s existence, justifies violence against it, defines such violence as a religious obligation and informs students that Jews and Zionists are irredeemably evil"
- Eurovision Song Winner Barzilai was "unrepentant with her popular techno dance beat about women's empowerment" [VIDEO]
- Set in New York in 1977, “Hunters” follows a band of Nazi hunters who find out hundreds of Nazi officials living in the US are plotting to establish a “Fourth Reich”
- "The new AT age -- "After Trump" -- began on either Election Day, Nov. 3, or on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20. But either way, reality as we had known it for four years has been abruptly reinvented"
- “Yale University has quietly adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism”
Monthly Archives: May 2015
Holocaust film ‘Son of Saul’ takes Grand Prize at Cannes
TIMES OF ISRAEL by AP and AFP May 24, 2015 The harrowing Holocaust drama “Son of Saul,” offering unflinching depictions of the gas chambers of Auschwitz, claimed the runner-up Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday…The Times of … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish
Tagged Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Holocaust, Son of Saul, Sonderkommando
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Medal of Honor Lessons for Graduates
WALL STREET JOURNAL by Daniel Ford May 20, 2015 ‘Be courageous and appreciate courage in others who take action in the face of fear.’ On Saturday I attended my first commencement program in 61 years. The speaker drew me there: … Continue reading
Posted in Everything else, Israel & Middle East
Tagged Ryan Pitts, University of New Hampshire
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Mad Men’s Religion
AMERICAN THINKER by Rabbi Elliot B. Gertel May 24, 2015 At the close of the AMC TV series Mad Men, antihero Don Draper (John Hamm), an aloof and morally ambiguous mid-century Manhattan ad man interested only in captivating corporations and … Continue reading
You want hypotheticals? Here’s one.
WASHINGTON POST by Charles Krauthammer May 21, 2015 …Mme. Secretary [Clinton]: When you arrived at State, al-Qaeda in Iraq had been crushed and expelled from Anbar. The Iraqi government had from Basra to Sadr City fought and defeated the radical, … Continue reading
Why Shavuot Is Jewish Mother-in-Law’s Day
TABLET MAG by Marcia Friedman May 21, 2015 As someone who converted to Judaism, I consider Shavuot, the festival on which we read from the Book of Ruth, an especially meaningful holiday. Ruth, a Moabite woman, is considered the first … Continue reading
Reconsidering Fethullah Gülen
COMMENTARY by Michael Rubin May 20, 2015 Fethullah Gülen, the 74-year-old Turkish Islamic thinker, has long been the subject of controversy in both American and Turkish policy circles. Born in Erzurum, Turkey, he taught and preached in Turkey for decades. … Continue reading
Defending Freedom of Speech
GATESTONE by Geert Wilders May 21, 2015 Freedom of speech is under threat today. Not only in Europe, where I come from. But also here, in America. The last time I was in the United States was less than two weeks … Continue reading
Another Tack: A Delegitimization Called Nakba
SARAH HONIG’S BLOG May 14, 2015 Delegitimization provides the sociopsychological rationale, the moral and discursive basis to harm the delegitimized group, even in the most inhumane ways… Delegitimized groups are rhetorically constructed as worthy targets of violence. —The Oxford Handbook … Continue reading
ArchitectGuy on Israel 