Azad’s career embodies the conviction that religious identity need not combine with political exclusivism. In the Middle East today, even amid deep political divisions, many intellectuals increasingly acknowledge that the future of stability…
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Why India Honors a Muslim Visionary Who Rejected Separatism and Built Schools
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Black vs. White Theology in the Americas (1492–Present): Part 6
Two Traditions, Two Locations From the moment Europeans crossed the Atlantic in 1492, theology traveled with them. It was preached in cathedrals, whispered in slave cabins, inscribed in catechisms, and sung in spirituals. Yet theologies in the…
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Hadar Goldin is Home: A Lesson in Morality the World Still Doesn’t Understand
The world watched in silence while Hamas held a fallen soldier as a bargaining chip. Israel’s answer was not revenge, but dignity. I never met Lt. Hadar Goldin. I never sat with his parents over coffee or stood beside them at a rally. Yet like…
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It’s the money, Fareed
Zakaria’s interview with al-Thani is a case study in how money manipulates media coverage and bolsters sponsors of terror I’m not one to yell at the news, but I couldn’t help myself watching Fareed Zakaria interview Sheikh Mohammed bin…
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Lt. Hadar Goldin’s Second Funeral
Now that the rest of the remains of Lt. Hadar Goldin z”l have finally returned home, it is important to remember that Hadar already has a burial place in Israel, and this will in fact be the second burial, as the rest of his remains…
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Never trust statistics
What to look for, not in any particular order This YouTube clip and my blog post will overlap, but I didn’t check the clip. I learned from Professor Jan van Gool (Pathophysiology, Wilhelmina Gasthuis, Amsterdam) that large studies can mislead,…
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The BBC messes up, and Hadar Goldin comes home
The BBC’s huge mistake As long as they stuck to just maligning Israel, they got away with it. Israel was fair game. After all, throughout history the Jews have been targeted. So it was just more of the same. But they erred hugely by attacking…
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Faith Meets Facts: The Christian Media Summit’s Mission in a Misled World
By Junaid Qaiser In an age when misinformation travels faster than facts, the struggle for truth has become one of the defining challenges of our time. Nowhere is this more visible than in the narratives surrounding Israel — a country that, for…
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The Blogs: The truth about Zionism | Isaac Herzog
Fifty years ago today, my father, Chaim Herzog, then Israel’s ambassador to the UN and later the country’s sixth president, stood before the United Nations General Assembly to respond to the infamous resolution declaring that “Zionism…
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The Blogs: God Is Shutting Down the Diaspora | Yisroel Roll
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In May 1933, my grandmother and father (who was six years old), traveled by ship on the RMS Empress of Britain from Montreal to Europe and overland to Vienna, to ask my grandmother’s five sisters and brother to leave…
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