July 9, 2010

Libyan humanitarian ship to sail to Gaza

Jewish Journal July 9, 2010

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s son reportedly organized a humanitarian ship to sail from Greece to the Gaza Strip no later than Saturday.

The so-called Dreyfus Affair was one of the flashpoints of modern history, an event that cast an ominous shadow over the fate of European Jewry and, not incidentally, motivated Theodor Herzl, who covered the trial as a journalist, in his creation of Zionism — if a Jew could be victimized in France, the birthplace of “Liberty, Equality and Fraternity,” where in the world were the Jews truly safe from anti-Semitism?

Cliff Lee likes that the last shall be first

Brad A. Greenberg July 9, 2010

Is Howard Stern the Son Joan Rivers Never Had? [VIDEO]

Rob Eshman July 9, 2010

Death of a Muslim

Jewish Journal July 9, 2010

A bright light of critical scholarship of Islam was just extinguished last week in Cairo with the death of Professor Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd on July 5. I saw him only last spring at the international conference, “The Qur’an in its Historical Context” held at the University of Notre Dame, where he and Professor Abdolkarim Soroush, the great contemporary Iranian philosopher and intellectual, together gave one of the most intellectually rigorous and emotionally moving keynote presentations I have ever experienced at an academic conference. These two Muslims represent the zenith of intellectual and ethical expression among any people of faith I know.