Formerly banned from U.S., professor preaches limited reform
| 10:46 AM Apr 9, 2010
“I want to welcome you to the U.S.,” New Yorker writer George Packer told Professor Tariq Ramadan last night. Ramadan, wearing a suit and an open oxford shirt, had kicked off the evening by welcoming “the new we.” “Look around this room,” he said from a podium set up in front of his fellow panelists. ...
A new book examines how the Nazis tailored their message for Arab and Muslim audiences
| 7:00 AM Feb 16, 2010
If you want to get even more depressed about the prospects for peace in the Middle East, check out a Web page maintained by the Anti-Defamation League that offers excerpts from the Hamas charter. One of the remarkable things about this document is the way it fuses three originally separate varieties of Jew-hatred. The first ...
“Vagina” in Yiddish and a guide to Tisha B'Av
| 10:00 AM Jul 29, 2009
In Tablet Magazine today, Elissa Strauss celebrates the rich Yiddish lexicon for describing female genitalia. We present part 3 of Douglas Century’s epic report on the current state of Israeli organized crime (part 1; part 2). Apropos Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s attempts to argue that the Palestinian Grand Mufti’s alliance with Hitler during World ...