The Cochin Jewish community is the oldest east of Iran. Most members now live in Israel, with only a few families remaining in Cochin. India’s main present Jewish community is in Bombay, nowadays Mumbai. This Bnei Israel community is slowly … [Read More]
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Next year Finland will assume the EU’s rotating presidency, making Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja a player in the organization’s Middle Eastern policy. Tuomioja’s views are representative of a deeper undercurrent in contemporary European criticism of Israel, one that combines factual … [Read More]
The influence of the Chabad Lubavitch movement in the Jewish world has greatly increased over the past decades. The seventh Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1994), who died without a successor – and is considered by part of the Chabad Hasidim … [Read More]
II. The Riots’ Impact on French Jewry The common view is that the physical impact of the riots on the Jewish community was not much greater than on others living in the areas affected.[53] Two synagogues were attacked with Molotov … [Read More]
Introduction Investigating the autumn 2005 disorders in France and their aftermath can provide much broader and longer-lasting perspectives than those pertaining to issues directly related to these events. Such an analysis can provide insight on several structural problems of French … [Read More]
The challenge the Shoah’s memory poses to the Jews, concerns the Jewish people’s legitimacy, that is, its right to exist in Europe and the Middle East. The European discourse on “the Shoah’s memory” is a delusion that conceals the nonrecognition … [Read More]
This book deals only marginally with matters directly concerning Judaism and Israel. Yet it provides profound insights into the French national mindset, which over the past decades has been critical of Israeli policy. Yehuda Blum, former Israeli ambassador to the … [Read More]
In January 2003, Mel Gibson announced that he intended to make a film that would tell the whole gospel truth about Jesus’ crucifixion. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) decided to reach out privately to Gibson for assurance that this film would … [Read More]
Published in European-Israeli Relations: Between Confusion and Change, 2006. About 20 percent of the Members of the European Parliament are friends of Israel. Another 20 percent are clear friends of the Palestinian people, while the remaining 60 percent like to … [Read More]
Violent anti-Semitism is rare in Ireland. Although the Irish government has a strong anti-Israel bias, it cannot be faulted as far as protecting the Jewish community is concerned. Neo-Nazis in Ireland are marginal. Much more of a threat to the … [Read More]