"Lily's Room"

This is an article collection between June 2007 and December 2018. Sometimes I add some recent articles too.

Entries from 2015-08-01 to 1 month

A Muslim in a NY State of Mind

Patheos (http://www.patheos.com)(1) A Muslim in a New York State of Mind—Part 1 28 May 2013 by Precious Rasheeda Muhammad Muslim History Detective’s log, 05/28/13 Recently I travelled to New York to give a speech and I have to say, as a Mu…

Today’s Middle East Studies

Middle East Forum(http://www.meforum.org/5433/middle-east-studies-political-nature)The Political Nature of Today's Middle East Studies National Review Online 10 August 2015 by Andrew C. McCarthy ・This article was commissioned by Campus …

UN Report

Algemeiner(http://www.algemeiner.com) Major Jewish Groups Lambaste ‘Deeply Unfair’ UN Report on 2014 Gaza War , 22 June 2015 by Eliezer ShermanA wide array of Jewish groups condemned on Monday a U.N. report that accused Israel and Hamas …

Franz Rosenzweig

Tablet(http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/143410) A Great Thinker Rediscovers His Judaism on the Day of Atonement Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig was set to convert to Christianity a century ago. Yom Kippur services ch…

Israel Saves America

Tablet(http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/191876/)Will Israel Save America?, 2 July 2015 Without a sense of exceptionalism, a country of chosen people cannot prosper by David P. Goldman Biblical Israel was America’s inspir…

Jewish conversational style

(http://www.davidjzucker.org/djzNEWW/neww13.htm)There is a Jewish conversational style. It is widely accepted that different ethnic groups have distinctive and meaningful patterns of conversational style that are known – almost intuitive…

Middle East Studies Mess

Australia/Israel & Jewish Affiars Council (http://www.aijac.org.au) Essay: The Middle East Studies Mess Edward Said: A key influence 2 July 2015 by Dr. Michael Rubin The Middle East is in chaos. After four years of Syrian civil war, there …

Early Christianity in Israel

Spero(http://www.speroforum.com/a/BTBLHOJSWW44/76036) Early evidence of Christianity found in Israel 10 June 2015 by Martin Barillas West of Jerusalem, near the entrance to Abu Gosh, archaeologists have uncovered a large Byzantine-era ro…

Jerusalem Arabs, etc.

As for the first news article, we shoud think seriously as to what these Arabs' real motivation behind this trend is. Except for the living convenience in Israel, how the Arab-Muslims can live peacefully with the Jewish Israelis religiousl…

List of Jewish 100 books

Tablet(http://tabletmag.com) 27 September 2013 • Appetites • Portnoy’s Complaint, Philip Roth (1969) • The Savage Mind, Claude Lévi-Strauss (1962) • Satan in Goray, Isaac Bashevis Singer (1955) • The Armies of the Night, Norman Mailer (196…

Jewish People and Torah

Tablet(http://tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/170728/daf-yomi-79) Why Did God Choose the Jewish People To Receive the Torah? Talmudic rabbis debate the paradoxical belief in Jewish chosenness despite the evidence of Jewish powerle…

America’s Left-Wing Jews

As for Mr. Dennis Prager, please refer to my previous postings(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/20130309)(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/20141224)(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/20150109). (Lily) National Review(http://www.natio…

Morality of Hiroshima & Nagazaki

As a non-American, I think it important to know that this analysis exists now. There are still sharp differences in interpretations and analyses between the Japanese side and the American side on this issue. The primary sources in both lan…

Mahmud Muhammad Taha

MEMRI(http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/8605.htm) 11 June 2015 No.47 Remembering A Radical Reformer: The Legacy Of Mahmud Muhammad Taha by Alberto M. Fernandez(Vice President of MEMRI) Thirty years ago, a pro-American Islamist…

Church of the Multiplication

In March 2007, I visited this Church. (Lily)Tablet(http://www.tabletmag.com)Arson Attack Strikes Israel’s Church of the Multiplication 19 June 2015 by Jas ChanaA church built upon the spot Jesus is said to have miraculously fed a crowd o…

US movement to boycott Israel

The Guardian (http://www.theguardian.com) Sheldon Adelson looks to stamp out growing US movement to boycott Israel by Chris McGreal in Portland, Oregon 5 June 2015 Billionaire gambling magnate and Republican party donor convenes closed-doo…

Israel as a ‘racist’ country?

Algemeiner(http://www.algemeiner.com) Nearly Half of US Democrats Believe Israel is a ‘Racist’ Country, Survey Finds 6 July 2015JNS.org – Nearly half of U.S. Democrats—47 percent—believe Israel is a “racist” country, while only 13 percen…

Jewish Achievement

Aish(http://www.aish.com)The Debate over Jewish Achievement 13 June 2015 by Steven L. Pease As a non-Jew, I’m fascinated that a people which constitute less than 1% of the world’s population has made such enormous contributions to humani…

Must understand Jabotinsky

As for Ze'ev Jabotinsky, please refer to my previous postings (http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/20140708)(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/archive?word=Jabotinsky). (Lily)Algemeiner(http://www.algemeiner.com)Obama Must Understand Jabotinsk…

The late professor Barry Rubin

As for the late Professor Barry Rubin, please refer to my previous postings(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/20140204)(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/20140205)(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/20140305)(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/ituna…