Jewish War Claims in The Netherlands: A Case Study
There is probably a greater discrepancy between the benign image and the harsh reality of Dutch wartime and postwar behavior than for any other country. An analysis of the Holocaust assets issue and its background in The Netherlands can be relevant in a much larger European context in view of its multiple financial, political, historical, cultural, psychological, social, educational, and moral implications.
The Jews of Japan
No one – apart perhaps from a few Japanese who see themselves as descendants of one of the lost tribes of Israel – would think of Japan as in sense a Jewish homeland.
Investigating Much, Paying Little: The Dutch Government and the Holocaust Asset Inquiries
Discussing the repayment of holocaust victims, and release of bank accounts held by the Dutch government.
Overthrowing Saddam Hussein: The Policy Debate
Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi dictator, has biological weapons capable of killing hundreds of thousands of Israelis with infectious diseases such as anthrax. These weapons could be delivered either by missiles, by small pilotless planes, or by infecting the passengers of a plane landing at Ben-Gurion Airport with less than an ounce of agent spread through the plane’s air conditioning system.
The False Prophet of Palestine: In the Wake of the Edward Said Revelations
Professor Edward Said of Columbia University is the Western world’s foremost spokesman for the Palestinian cause. Said, a world-class writer, elevated his personal parable of a paradise destroyed and dispossessed to his trump card in articles, books, lectures, interviews, and television documentaries.
The Mission of the Schools of Jewish Communal Service in the United States
Defining a Profession / The On-Going Mission of the Graduate Schools and Programs in Jewish Communal Service / Models of Training for Jewish Communal Service / Special Initiatives / Far From Finished
The Mission of the Schools of Jewish Communal Service
An attempt to define the profession of Jewish communal service, and to create models of training for such workers.
Homeland Security Portal
Jerusalem Center publications related to American homeland security concerns
The Intellectual World of Daniel Elazar
In memoriam of Daniel Elazar, an article on Jewish thought, continuation, and the impact of his work.
Ehud Barak, the National Tranquilizer
Discussing Barak and the Oslo Summit – And why it failed to inspire.
The European Union and the Middle East Peace Process
Europe, both in terms of the individual states and collectively through the 15-member European Union, seeks to play an active role in the Middle East peace process. There are many reasons for this – substantive, political, and symbolic.
A New Agenda for the Jewish People
The development of new frameworks, changing cultures, and major avenues of Jewish identification throughout the world.
Defining Limits on Religious Expression in Public Institutions: The Turkish Dilemma
More than seven decades have passed since Mustafa Kemal abolished the Caliphate, disestablished Islam, banned the fez, strongly discouraged the veil, advocated European attire, introduced Western legal codes, changed the Turkish script from Arabic to a modified Latin alphabet, and proclaimed “laicism” (secularism) as one of the cardinal principles of the modern Turkish Republic.
Islamic Fundamentalism in the Public Square
Muslim fundamentalists throughout the Islamic world have seized upon the question of legitimacy of the regimes under which they live, absolute monarchies and all other forms of
authoritarian rule, in order to come to the public square and pose them selves as popular alternatives to the existing unpopular regimes. This links up with the basic suspicion of the West which prevails among these movements, due to the corrupting nature of Western values which contradict Islam, and the alliance that the Islamists find between their corrupt regimes and that same West. To attain their goal, the Islamists have developed a vocabulary and a plethora of symbols to replace the secular institutions and the political jargon that was borrowed from the West. This essay includes a case study of the struggle between the PLO and Hamas in the Palestinian Authority.
Transnational Religion, Religious Schools, and the Dilemna of Public Funding for Jewish Education: The Case of Ontario
The search for public funding for Ontario Jewish day schools is examined in the context of the increasing role of transnational networks as aspects of religious life. Various scholars
(Barber, 1993; Huntington, 1996; Kepel, 1994; Lawrence, 1996 [1989]) have interpreted the recent revival of transnational religious movements as indications of a shift towards a communal identification which challenges identification with the nation-state. In some versions, religious communalism is seen as a movement towards a non-Western (or anti-Western) form of modernization. I
