Eschatological Protectionism: Saving Jews for the End of DaysBy now, many American Jews are aware of a peculiar theological convergence: the alignment of...Pies, Ronald
Vilnius had two ghettos during the Nazi period – the small and the large. They both got liquidated (or “liquidized” as one Lithuanian tourist website has it) by Nazis and Lithuanian police shooting tens of thousands of Jews in the forests around the city. Above is the site of the Gr...
Judaism, as he pointed out, often provided antidotes to the chaos. The Torah, God's will revealed in words, was an algorithm that gave discipline to life. Keeping Shabbat was an ideal way to achieve work-life balance. The festivals and High Holy Days reminded Jews of their shared tradition...
"It is so, so important to bring together the two cultures, the two people, the Jews and Arabs together," said Mahajna, a doctoral student in archaeology who has regular interactions with Jews. "At the end of the day, we live in one country. In recent years, the Israeli society has ...
cleanse Germancultureof “un-Germanic” writings. A century earlierHeinrich Heine—a German poet of Jewish origin—had said, “Where one burns books, one will, in the end, burn people.” In Nazi Germany the time between the burning of Jewish books and the burning of Jews was eight years....
examines the role Jews have played in the de-Christianizing of American universities and intellectual life. At the end of the nineteenth century, he writes, a generic, trans-denominational Protestantism “was taken for granted by nearly all of the Americans in a position to influence the charact...
Within a few days it transpired that all the more prominent lawyers were being called for internment — in alphabetical order.. Although I forbade my son to work for the Jewish Council, the council continued to operate diligently and with enthusiasm. By the end of the week they had reached ...
The Old Testament, on the other hand, presents universal history: it begins with the beginning of time, with the creation of the world, and will end with the Last Days, the fulfilling of the Covenant, with which the world will come to an end. Everything else that happens in the world...
People wave Palestinian flags during Eid al-Fitr prayers, which marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, at the compound that houses al-Aqsa mosque, known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City ...
stranger to readers of this website) and based at the University of Warwick. These days it is headed by Neve Gordon and uses one of those ‘fake’ paid-foroffice addressesin Central London. There is only oneresolutionposted on the main website – a call for the academic boycott of ...