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“Following the Equator”. It was a book, a travelogue by Mark twain at the turn of the century that by today’s standards is pretty mediocre but it contained one jewel of an idea that almost redeemed it: That is, that … Continue reading
In the jaws of the crocodile
People are the product of history. The way nations see, dress, think and formulate reality are much based on the parameters that over time, form a wall of convention, the box to which the comfort zone of convenience installs and … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Aaron ben Moses, Bashar Al Assad, Cal Shenkel, Captain Beefheart, Charles Manson, Hassan Nasrallah, Ibn Sahl manuscript, Judith Butler, Maimonides, Margaret Atwood The Blind Assasin, Max Horkheimer, Mursi Egypt, Snell's law, The Aleppo Codex, Theodor Adorno
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ever since Abraham gave Ishmael the boot
There has been a couple of articles over the past several months in Haaretz, the Israeli secular left wing daily that try to confront the issue of co-existence with the Palestinians and of course the larger Islamic world from the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Andrew Bostom, benjamin disraeli, Benny Morris Historian, Benzion Netanyahu, Cairo Geniza, doug saunders globe and mail, Fouad Ajami, Golden Age of Muslim Spain, Heinrich Graetz, Jane Gerber, Maimonides, Maimonides in Egypt, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Buber, meron benvenisti, Montesquieu, Moritz Steinschneider, Nicky Larkin director, Pierre Bayle, Piet Mondrian, Robert Wistrich, Shlomo Dov Goiten, Voltaire
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a thousand tears ago: no year 1K crisis
A thousand years ago, our forebears were said to have lived in a “Dark Age.” They themselves did not think it was dark, and they were only half wrong… All those years ago. Some say that a new Dark Age … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Battle of Lechfeld, Battle of Recknitz, Constantinople History, Cordoba medieval Spain, German Otto the Great, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maimonides, Otto I the Great, Poland Catholic Origins, Polish Duke Mieszko, Sigmund Meisterlin' Codex, Spain Omiad dynasty, The Dark Age
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where’s that fire?
Going back over a thousand years ago, no less a figure than Maimonides remarked on the Jewish tendency to denial, a characteristic, he asserted that would only hasten their destruction. Although the context for Maimonides consternation was based on his … Continue reading
knew the Truth
He died in his favorite wife Aisha’s arms, unable to lift himself up and attend prayers in the mosque. he raised his hand, said, “with the most high companion,” and died. But the call to arms against the infidel remained… … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Abdul Aziz, Aisha and Mohammed, Alfarabi Muslim neo-Aristotelian, Burma Rohingya Muslims, david yerushalmi, Death of Mohammed, House of Saud, Israel Shahak, Karen Elliot House, Khalil Gibran, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maimonides, Maimonides guide for the perplexed, Pamela Geller, San Suu Kyi, Sheikh bin Baz, shmuly yanklowitz
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lights under the stars
Demographic time bomb? An ideology of religion or religious ideology? There are no answers and the data is mixed, a muddy glass that is difficult to discern what is actually inside. A common view is that secular liberal democratic values … Continue reading
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Tagged Akihiko Hoshide, Aosdana Ireland, Christopher Hitchens, doug saunders globe and mail, Eli Wiesel, Golda Meir visits pope, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Madonna swastika Marie Le Pen, Maimonides, Mark Steyn, MK Eldad, Nicky Larkin, Paul Ehrlich, Sam Harris, Sunita Williams, Women in Green Jerusalem, Yaron London, Yehuda Brown, Yuri Malenchenko
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thinking and taking the book out of the box
Mitt Romney and Israel still making waves or hay as he tries to throw Obama into the barn. Its all B.S. but gives the pundits what to wax on, or better yet to chew and spit out. Frankly, Sheldon Adelson … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Albert Einstein, Albert Einstein left-handed, Cenk Uygur, Dan Senor, Johannes Stark, Maimonides, Michael Ordman, Mike Nicholls professor, Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney Jewish, paul robeson, Philipp Lenard, Prime Minister David Cameron left handed, Richard Francis Burton, Saeb Erekat, Salam Fayyad Palestinian Authority, Sheldon Adelson, Sir Richard Francis Burton the Jews, W.E.B. Du Bois, Yahoo Serious
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when that day arrives
The end of days. The messianic era. There is a degree of excitement, or urgency of the uplifting nature that revelation provides regarding the repairing of the world, its redemption and the long promised golden road of devotion and freedom. … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Dan Bern Jerusalem, Debbie Schlussel, Diane Sawyer, Dr. Vendyl Jones, Gay International, Gershon Salomon, James Holmes, Janet Afary, Jesse Bering, Joseph Massad, Kevin Anderson, leiby kletzky, levi aron, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gays in Iran, Maimonides, Michel Foucault, MK Danny Danon, Noahide Laws, NYPD Raymond Kelly, Obeid e Zakani, Rabbi Chaim Richman, Syrian homosexuals, Wolf Blitzer
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