Entries from 2015-01-01 to 1 year
The Huffington Post(http://www.huffingtonpost.com)When Jewish and Islamic Holy Days Coincide by Stephen Schwartz 14 September 2015This year - 2015 by the common era (C.E.) calendar - includes an alignment at mid-September of the main hol…
As for this‘Guide for the Perplexed’series, please refer to my previous postings (http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/20140604)(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/20140925)(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/20141004)(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunal…
Homeland Security Today(http://www.hstoday.us) McCaul Releases September ‘Terror Threat Snapshot’ by Homeland Security Today Staff 4 September 2015 The jihadist threat in the US “is high and has escalated dramatically this year,” accordi…
Patheos(http://www.patheos.com/blogs/roberthunt/2014/01/thoughts-from-the-holy-land-2/) Thoughts from the Holy Land 2 19 January 2014 by Dr. Robert Hunt Let me start with a map. The distance from the Jordan river (border of Jordan) to th…
Projekdialog(http://www.projekdialog.com/featured/kalimah-allah-dan-agama-kristian/) Kalimah “Allah” dan agama Kristian Uthaya Sankar SB 21 July 2013 “Mengapakah penganut agama Kristian dan gereja sengaja mahu menimbulkan kemarahan dan r…
1. WorldWide Religious News(http://wwrn.org/articles/39967/) World’s Muslim population more widespread than you might think by Drew Desilver ("Pew Research Center," June 7, 2013) There are an estimated 1.6 billion Muslims around the worl…
As for Professor Martin Kramer, please refer to my previous postings (http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/archive?word=%22Martin+Kramer%22). (Lily)Mosaic Magazine(http://mosaicmagazine.com) "The Spirit of Jewish Conservatism"—A Five-Part Sy…
Dr.Ida Lichter (Surry Hills, NSW, Australia) is a psychiatrist and writer in the UK and Australia. She is the author of Muslim Women Reformers: Inspiring Voices Against Oppression published by Prometheus Books. I met her during the Israel …
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
(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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Breitbart (http://www.breitbart.com) Muslim Scholars: Israel Is ‘Root Cause’ of All Islamic Nations’ Failures, 27 May 2015 by Jordan SchachtelMuslim clerics gathered in Beirut on Wednesday to kick off the Khomeinist International Union of …
As for Campus Watch, please refer to my previous postings(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/20090503)(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/20130420). Regarding John Esposito, please refer to my list(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/archive…