On Thursday, August 20th, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the terrorist who had been convicted of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, resulting in the death of 270 people, was returned to Libya as a free man, receiving a hero’s welcome. As the murderer descended from the plane to a cheering...
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Archive for August, 2009
Those Who Stand On The Side of The Sanctity of Human Life
The Will to Believe
Throughout Jewish history, some of us have been prone to suspend our critical judgment and believe in false messiahs. Many of us, after all, followed Shabtai Zvi, the 17th century rabbi and self-declared (and ultimately false) messiah. Unfortunately, our recent history is no better. So many of us suspended critical thinking and skepticism and...
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“Sins of the Fathers…”
Sarah’s article (available here under the title “Freedom of the City,”) was selected as a Washington Jewish Weekly’s Editorial. If you missed it earlier, go ahead and catch it there now. Way to go Sarah!
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Emet’s Upcoming 9/10th Seminar: “The Saudi Penetration into America’s National Infrastructure”
On September 10, 2009, on the eve of the anniversary of that fateful day eight years ago when 3,000 Americans had lost their lives, EMET will once again be hosting a seminar entitled: The Saudi Penetration into America’s National Infrastructure. This star-studded conference will be held from one p.m. to four p.m. in the...
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The Freedom of the City
The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, “What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.” U.S. President John F. Kennedy, addressing a concerned nation during the Berlin Crisis 48 summers ago, spoke those words in standing firm against Soviet designs on the city. The speaker...
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Pipes: Why Shariah Must Be Opposed
Daniel Pipes on the difference between Shariah law, and other religious law (particularly Jewish Halakha): Those of us who argue against Shariah are sometimes asked why Islamic law poses a problem when modern Western societies long ago accommodated Halakha, or Jewish law. In fact, this was one of the main talking points of those...
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Tisha B’Av 2009
I do not generally use this space for spiritual musings. However, this past Thursday marked Tisha B’Av, the ninth of the Jewish month of Av. This is a date on the Jewish calendar that my people commemorate not only the destruction of the First Temple in 586 BCE and the Second Temple in 70...
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