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Hermann Cohen’s Secular Messianism and Liberal Cosmopolitanism

April 24, 2008 | Rory Schacter

The German Jewish thinker Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) had interesting perspectives on messianism, liberalism, and Zionism. Despite the great changes that the nature of Jewish life on the one hand, and the conceptions of liberalism on the other, have undergone since Cohen wrote, many modern thinkers continue to frame their political positions on strikingly "Cohenian" grounds. Hence the theoretical basis of his attack on Zionism and nationalism in the name of liberal universalism

Laurence Weinbaum on Poland’s Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present, by Joanna Beata Michlic

April 21, 2008 | Dr. Laurence Weinbaum

The Power of Hate Poland's Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present, by Joanna Beata Michlic, University of Nebraska Press, 2007, 386 pp. Reviewed by Laurence Weinbaum

Rolf Behrens on Foxbats over Dimona: The Soviets’ Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War, by Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez

April 20, 2008 | Rolf Behrens

Exploring the Six Day War's Soviet Angle Foxbats over Dimona: The Soviets' Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War, by Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez, Yale University Press, 2007, 287 pp. Reviewed by Rolf Behrens

Simon Erlanger on Insel der Aufklärung: Israel im Kontext, vol. 3, Schriften zur politischen Bildung, Kultur und Kommunikation (Island of Enlightenment: Israel in Context, vol. 3, Papers on Political

April 19, 2008 | Dr. Simon Erlanger

Shalom Freedman on The Deadliest Lies: The Israel Lobby and the Myth of Jewish Control, by Abraham H. Foxman

April 18, 2008 | Shalom Freedman

Sarah Schmidt on Bearing False Witness: Jimmy Carter’s Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, edited by CAMERA

April 17, 2008 | Dr. Sarah Schmidt

Amnon Lord on Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism, and the Roots of 9/11, by Matthias Küntzel

April 15, 2008 | Amnon Lord

Herbert Eiteneier on Ausgrenzung. Vertreibung. Völkermord. Genozid im 20. Jahrhundert (Exclusion. Expulsion. Genocide. Genocide in the Twentieth Century), by Wolfgang Benz

April 14, 2008 | Herbert Eiteneier

Manfred Gerstenfeld on The Jews Are Coming Back: The Return of the Jews to Their Countries of Origin after WWII

April 13, 2008 | Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld

Sarah Schmidt on Uncouth Nation: Why Europe Dislikes America, by Andre S. Markovits

April 12, 2008 | Dr. Sarah Schmidt

Holocaust Trivialization

April 9, 2008 | Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld

Online Antisemitism 2.0. “Social Antisemitism” on the “Social Web”

April 1, 2008 | Andre Oboler

The U.S. National Intelligence Estimate on Iran and Its Aftermath: A Roundtable of Israeli Experts

March 9, 2008 | Maj.-Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror, Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser

The Academic Boycott of Israel: A Review of the Five-Year UK Campaign to Defeat It

March 2, 2008 | Ronnie Fraser

Is Israel Bound by International Law to Supply Utilities,
Goods, and Services to Gaza?

February 28, 2008 | Abraham (Avi) Bell

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