Posts Tagged: Edward Alexander
Remembering One of Israel’s Fiercest Intellectual Defenders
Edward Alexander, the Jewish scholar and author who passed away recently at age 84, was called “Seattle’s Jeremiah" by his hometown newspaper. An Israeli publication...
In Memory of Professor Edward Alexander
In September 1974, I arrived in Israel as a Guggenheim Fellow to teach American history at Tel Aviv University. Having visited Israel for the first...
‘Seattle’s Jeremiah’: A Half-Century of Defending Israel
His hometown newspaper calls him “Seattle’s Jeremiah.” An Israeli publication once hailed him as “Jewry’s premier polemicist.” For half a century, Edward Alexander has been...
The History of the Wandering Jew
Albert Londres, a non-Jewish muckraking French journalist, set off for London, Prague, Subcarpathia and Poland early in 1929, in order to examine the harsh and...
Obama, Merkel and ‘The Right Side of History’
“US Sends Iran Two More Loads of Cash." So blared the headline on the front page of the September 7 issue of The Wall Street...
Despite Paper’s Claim, Jews Certainly Can Be Antisemitic
An article in the Times of London on April 2, titled "Labour welcomes back blogger who compares Israelis to Nazis," included the following about the “socialist, anti-Zionist, anti-racist”...
Nothing Abides: Perspectives on the Middle East and Islam (REVIEW)
Nothing Abides: Perspectives on the Middle East and Islam, by Daniel Pipes. Transaction Publishers, 2015. More doggedly than any other expert on Middle East affairs Daniel...
The Campus Uprisings, Israel, and the Downfall of Larry Summers
The Wall Street Journal of November 14-15 carried an astute article by Roger Kimball (editor of the New Criterion) entitled “The Rise of the College...
Jews Against Themselves, by Edward Alexander (REVIEW)
Among the lamentably small coterie of Jewish intellectuals and academics who defend Israel against the anti-Zionist tirades of its legions of liberal and leftist Jewish...
EXCLUSIVE: Jews Against Themselves, by Edward Alexander (EXCERPT)
Jews Against Themselves is about the new forms taken by Jewish apostasy in an age when Jewish existence is threatened more starkly and immediately than at...
Jews Against Themselves: The BDS Movement and Modern Apostasy
"The spiritual father of the fanatical incitement against the Jews was Abner of Burgos, a Jewish kabbalist and scholar who converted to Christianity in about...
Barack Obama and Biblical Sacrifice
In synagogues all over the country, last Saturday's opening portion of Leviticus (usually called "Vayyikra") was read aloud. It deals at length with the laws...
Anti-Semitism is Rife Among America’s Far Left (REVIEW)
Antisemitism and the American Far Left, by Stephen H. Norwood (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013). If you've ever wondered why "do-gooder" is a pejorative label,...
Rabbi Akiva and the IRS
As the IRS scandal unfolds, it is worth recalling that , according to the medieval rabbis, the practice of reciting kaddish, the Jewish prayer...
