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The New York Times And The Goldstone Report
CAMERA SAYS: Of the many stories the Times ran on Judge Goldstone and his report, two merited front page placement: an initial article, titled “U.N. Inquiry Sees Gaza War Crimes; Israel Chastised,” that focused primarily on the report’s condemnation of … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Journalism
Tagged blood libel, initial article, landmark development, ostracization, palestinian civilians, war crimes
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Jewish News
From TorahMusings.com: ▪ Simon Wiesenthal and the ethics of history ▪ Is ‘Jewish’ Parenting Lax? ▪ Alien life deemed impossible by analysis of 500 planets ▪ Bias feared in public school proposal to absorb Yiddish special ed program ▪ Facts … Continue reading
Posted in Jews
Tagged blood libel, diaspora jews, ethics of history, moshe tendler, organ donor card, simon wiesenthal
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The Jewish View On Brain Death, Organ Donation
The Jewish Week reports Jan. 11, 2011: Faced with two well-founded positions of Jewish law on when death occurs for the purpose of organ donations, the country’s major Modern Orthodox rabbinic group has similarly ruled that both brain-stem death and … Continue reading
Posted in Hershel Schachter, R. Moshe Tendler, RCA
Tagged avraham shapira, blood libel, brain death, brain stem death, core issues, moshe tendler, rabbi moshe, rabbi tendler
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This Week’s Parsha (Exodus 19:1–20:23)
Watch the whole show! I discuss the weekly Torah portion with Rabbi Rabbs every Monday at 7pm PST on my live cam and YouTube. This week’s parsha is Yitro. * What do you think of Sarah Palin saying she was … Continue reading
Posted in R. Rabbs, Torah
Tagged blood libel, orthodox jews, rabbinic tradition, rabbs, Sarah Palin, torah scholars, weekly torah portion
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Letter From A Birmingham Jail
On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: “There is not a single founder of this country who did not believe in God, in providence, in God judging nations, the afterlife, that we are judged and that this country could … Continue reading
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Tagged blood libel, dr martin luther, letter from a birmingham jail, letter from the birmingham jail, rabbi shmuley boteach, reverend martin
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Memorial for Tucson Victims
From BigGovernment.com: In an exclusive statement, famed attorney and Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz defended Sarah Palin’s use of the term “blood libel” from multiple detractors. As the Media Matters/MSM/Democrat narrative on the Tucson tragedy unravels, they are getting a … Continue reading
Posted in Dennis Prager, Sarah Palin
Tagged blood libel, economic legacy, false accusations, foundation for economic education, harvard law professor, hillsdale college, irvington new york, professor alan dershowitz, public discourse, Sarah Palin
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Why Wasn’t Hamas Invited?
Robert J. Avrech writes: There’s been a certain amount of carefully orchestrated controversy swirling round the NBNFIJBC. Backstory: A notorious apologist for Muslim terror whispered to Haaretz—duh—that the conference was made up of right wing religious nuts. Some Haaretz hack—redundancy, … Continue reading
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Tagged author id, blood libel, hack job, journalistic objectivity, religious nuts, treppenwitz
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