In 1989 Daniel Elazar wrote: “Jewish political studies is a neglected but extremely significant dimension of Jewish life that needs to be explored.”1 The same can be said, even more emphatically, of Jewish environmental studies. Jewish environmental studies do not yet … [Read More]
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Accurately Assessing Global Changes In Israel, ongoing contingency planning in the military, political, economic, and information fields is particularly essential now, especially in light of the structural global changes that may occur after the September 11th terrorist attack on the … [Read More]
In the UN safe area of Srebrenica, 6-8,000 Bosnian Moslems were murdered in July 1995 by the Bosnian Serbs, making it the largest civilian massacre in Europe since the Holocaust. The United Nations leaders, those of their peace-keeping forces, and … [Read More]
In the Western world, there is growing interest in the attitude of organized religion toward the environment.1 One strong motivation for this is the desire to mobilize religion in the battle for global environmental protection. This development also means that representatives … [Read More]
From Weimar to Durban The moral aspects of Western attitudes toward the Jews and the Holocaust since World War II have not yet been analyzed systematically. However, the current campaign of hatred against Israel and the Jewish people — unprecedented … [Read More]
When earlier this year Portuguese Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago compared the situation in Ramallah to Auschwitz, he unwittingly staked his claim to become the archetype of the new anti-Semite. These defamers target the Jewish State rather than the religious … [Read More]
The publicity focus on Holocaust issues in the last decade may cause one to mistakenly assume that its main aspects have, by now, been well researched. Yehuda Bauer, the director emeritus of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad … [Read More]
IV. Country Reviews A further way to enlarge one’s perspective on post-war attitudes toward the Jews is by analyzing events in individual countries. Since it will take a long time for overviews to become available, the best one can do … [Read More]
An intensified defamation campaign against Israel and world Jewry has been taking place during the last two years. Various European governments and media play an important role in it. The moral aspects of post-war European attitudes toward the Jews have … [Read More]
In recent years France has stood out negatively, not only because of its many violent assaults on Jews and their institutions but also due to the often anti-Semitic intellectual and media attacks on Israel. Simon Epstein, researcher at the Vidal … [Read More]