Dieses Buch hätte schon vor vielen Jahren geschrieben werden müssen, auf Grundlage des breit gefächerten Wissens, das bereits damals vorhanden war. Seit inzwischen Jahrzehnten ist Israel das Ziel eines totalen Propagandakriegs seiner mannigfaltigen Feinde gewesen. Diese wichtige Schlacht hat sich … [Read More]
Manfred Gerstenfeld
José María Anzar Israel ist ein kleines Land mit einem großen Volk. Leider wird es seit seiner Entstehung 1948 ständig angegriffen. Zuerst wurde es in den 1940-er, 1960-er und 1970-er Jahren von den Armeen seiner arabischen Nachbarn bestürmt; später wurde … [Read More]
In seinem Buch The War of A Million Cuts versammelt und analysiert der Jerusalemer Antisemitismusforscher Manfred Gerstenfeld, Formen des aktuellen Antisemitismus und der Diffamierung Israels. Das Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs stellt das Buch jetzt kostenlos als Downlaod zur Verfügung. In letzter Zeit … [Read More]
Review by Manfred Gerstenfeld Historian Robert Wistrich, who holds the Neuberger Chair for Modern European and Jewish History at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and is the head of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism, publishes … [Read More]
Published 1998 by the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies and Rubin Mass Ltd Jerusalem Introduction This study discusses and reviews a broad question: “How does Judaism view modern environmentalism and environmental matters?” Environmentalism as we know it today has developed as … [Read More]
On March 19, 2012, Mohammed Merah, a Frenchman of Algerian origin, killed a teacher and three children in front of the Toulouse Jewish school Otzar Hatorah. Earlier that month, he murdered three French soldiers. A few days after the Toulouse … [Read More]
In August 2011, the Foundation for the Fight against Antisemitism (BAN)1 took the soccer club ADO to court. On March 20, during a game of this top-league club from The Hague against Ajax from Amsterdam, frequent chants of antisemitic songs … [Read More]
“The program that is now known as Taglit-Birthright Israel was launched in late 1999–early 2000. The Israeli parliamentarian Yossi Beilin had proposed the idea almost a decade earlier. He wanted to change the Israel-Diaspora relationship from Israel being a supplicant … [Read More]
“American Modern Orthodoxy consists of at least two distinct types, an intellectual and a sociological one. Intellectual Modern Orthodoxy has an ideology of joining the best of Western civilization with a commitment to Jewish law and traditional Jewish values. It … [Read More]
According to Arnold Eisen—the chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS)—The Conservative Movement faces three major challenges related to message, quality control and structure. When Eisen speaks throughout the United States and Canada to Conservative Jews, he says, many of … [Read More]