AICE Update: Did the Jews start the first war with the Arabs?
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The Families Have Been Notified
Did the Jews start the first war with the Arabs?
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The Arabs made clear they would go to war to prevent the establishment of a Jewish state. The chairman of the Arab Higher Committee said the Arabs would "fight for every inch of their country." Two days later, the holy men of Al-Azhar University in Cairo called on the Muslim world to proclaim a jihad (holy war) against the Jews. Jamal Husseini, the Arab Higher Committee's spokesman, had told the UN prior to the partition vote the Arabs would drench "the soil of our beloved country with the last drop of our blood."
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Are Young Jews Turning Off to Israel?
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Judy Maltz recently wrote an interesting article with the premise that young Jews are turning off to Israel because they don't want to get caught up in the political debates on campus between Israel's supporters and their antagonists. Like many other writers who have promoted this theme of the abandonment of Israel by the young, she gets part of the story right, but most of it either wrong or out of context. In fact, what she describes is not new, and not a reflection of any particular social movement or shift in
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attitudes; Jewish students have actually changed very little since at least the 80's when I was a campus activist.
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Podcast Start-Up Nation for the Humanities
Damned to be Blessed: Jewish Exile as a Metaphor
Host Gilad Halpern and Vivian Liska, professor of German literature and the director of the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, discuss one of the themes featuring in her forthcoming book, German Jewish Thought and its Aftermath: A Precarious Legacy: How can Jewish thought extract itself from a generations-long paradox that sees exile as a blessing and a curse at the same time?
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2016 Elections
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The Families Have Been Notified [Hebrew with English Subtitles]
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