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Sep 4, 2021, 7:45 PM
Feminist Conundrum: Gazan Women
The Afghan withdrawal debacle has highlighted the difficult situation faced by Muslim women. While Taliban leaders are sometimes characterized as being seventh-century Islamists, their views on sharia law are not so different from many other traditional Middle Eastern societies,...
Jun 8, 2021, 10:11 PM
The Dishonesty of Anti-Racist Narratives
The anti-Israel position in response to the armed conflict between Hamas and Israel brought out the same style of criticism as the anti-racist movement. Both efforts reject any mention of the behaviors of the designated oppressed – black Americans...
May 18, 2021, 4:34 PM
More NY Times Distortions
Much has been written about the current twin conflicts Israel faces: the bombs from Hamas and the internal Arab-Jewish violence in some of its mixed cities. However, it is the New York Times that provides the most inaccurate assessment...
Jan 8, 2020, 10:31 PM
Anti-Jewish Violence: Liberal Obfuscations
In the last month, there has been unprecedented violence against orthodox Jews throughout the NYC metropolitan area: killings in Jersey City, knifings in Monsey, and the wack-a-Jew Hanukkah actions in Brooklyn. As I have shown, this latest spike was...
Oct 24, 2019, 7:53 AM
Understanding the Momentous Decision of Israel’s Arab Joint List
After last month’s Israeli election, under the leadership of Ayman Odeh, the majority of the Arab Joint List recommended Benny Gantz to be the country’s next prime minister. They made this unprecedented decision even though he was the military...
Jul 30, 2019, 9:28 PM
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Baltimore is rat-infested and Cummings is culpable
A boy shoots a basketball into a makeshift basket made from a milk crate and attached to a vacant row house in Baltimore. In 2013, an estimated 16,000 buildings were vacant or abandoned in Baltimore. April 8, 2013 (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
The Jewish community was too quick to defend the Congressman, who seeks to move poor people on up instead of fixing their neighborhoods
Jul 24, 2019, 7:00 PM
What’s Holding Up a Two-State Solution: It’s Not Israel
The US-led Bahrain economic conference not only cemented Israeli relations with some Arab states, it also reflected the aspirations of many West Bank Palestinians. As the New York Times reporter Isabel Kirschner noted, “pocketbook issues are taking priority...
Jun 26, 2019, 11:55 PM
Spike Lee: Not Helpful for Jews or Black Americans
This past year, Spike Lee received acclaim for his latest movie, BlacKkKlansman. His creation of a police officer, Flip Zimmerman, raised again Lee’s use of Jewish characters in his films. His 1990 film Mo’ Better Blues featured two non-Jews...
Mar 12, 2019, 4:32 PM
Modern Hasidic Asceticism: Its Historical Origins
In a penetrating article in Tablet, Benjamin Brown assessed the growing ascetic tendencies within some Hasidic sects. To begin his analysis, Brown stated: Kedushah (holiness) was developed as a pietistic ideal for the virtuous few, encouraging married men to limit...
Feb 16, 2019, 6:39 PM
Leftist Hypocrisy: Selective Concerns for Victimization
Mitchell Bard has a wonderful article pointing to the one-sided approach US progressives have to concerns for Palestinians: Any perceived victimization by Israel is strongly deplored but they are silent when the source of the victimization is Arab religious...
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Robert Cherry is a recently retired professor of economics at Brooklyn College. Author of Jewish and Christian Views on Bodily Pleasures: Their Origins and Relevance to Twentieth Century (Wipf & Stock, 2018); Why the Jews? How Jewish Values Transformed Twentieth Century American Pop Culture (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021).
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