Who is an ‘Islamist’ and Why it Matters
J. E. DyerSunday, April 7th, 2013
Based on the Associated Press’s definition, whom exactly can a reporter call an Islamist?
Based on the Associated Press’s definition, whom exactly can a reporter call an Islamist?
Yom HaShoah will open at sundown at Yad Vashem’s Warsaw Ghetto Square in Jerusalem.
First they came for terrorism, then it was the war on terror, and now it is Islamism.
I know this is supposed to be a consumer column, but let’s face it. We have all just spent the last few weeks preparing, cleaning and shopping until our credit cards begged for mercy and our family members have started wondering if Windex is our new signature scent. The last thing anyone wants to be thinking about right now is buying more stuff, making home improvements or otherwise planning ahead.
Israel’s Haredi rabbis continue to make a mockery of themselves and of Judaism by pressing to arrest women for saying the mourner’s prayer at the Kotel. Sharansky comes to the rescue.
Rabbi Pirutinsky discussed the issue of ‘metzizah b’peh’ at length, concluding that if medical experts determine that there is a danger to the child, metzizah should be performed by other legitimate methods.
Two artworks sold under duress during the Nazi occupation of Germany will be returned to the heirs of New York art collector Michael Berolzheimer, who died in 1942 after escaping from Germany and settling in suburban WestchesterCounty. Berolzheimer and his family fled from Germany in 1938 after selling his art under duress, traveling first to [...]
Published originally in 1965, this reissue of a classic is now more relevant than ever. Jewish law legislates that a child is Jewish if the mother is Jewish, or one who had converted to Judaism according to specific halachic requirements. Jewish identity is thus not merely sociological and demographic (if Jews live in the land of Israel) nor ethnic (differences in customs, folkways, and liturgy and practice of Ashkenazi Jews vs. Sephardic Jews), but rather determined by a maternal hereditary religious blood covenant.
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