Posts Tagged ‘Anti-Semitism’
SHOULD JEWS LEAVE EUROPE? — PART TWO
Last week, I wrote about a young Jewish couple in Sweden confronting anti-Semitism. Sara and Michael were shaken by the February shooting outside a synagogue in Copenhagen, Denmark, close to their Swedish home. Michael likens their feelings to those of frogs cooked in a pot of water. Lukewarm water slowly comes to a boil. The…
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In the April 2015 Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg’s cover article asks, “Is It Time for the Jews to Leave Europe?” Goldberg surveys anti-Semitism, particularly in the context of Europe’s Muslim population. His question is timely. The answer is challenging. Part of Goldberg’s article analyzes Sweden’s southern city of Malmö with a population of 300,000, including 50,000…
Read MoreTHE CAMPUS DISEASE
Cairo’s Al-Azhar University is the Muslim world’s preeminent Sunni religious institution. The University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) provides outstanding higher education in the United States. Both seem quite different. Yet both share something in common besides being well-known universities. It’s cause for concern. Last Sunday in Mecca, Ahmed al-Tayib, Al-Azhar’s grand imam, addressed…
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