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An End to the “Gentleman’s Agreement” on Israel?

By Jay Michaelson

…hand, it may lead to some uncomfortable consequences: a de facto division between East and West Jerusalem, for example, and an end to the convenient arrangement whereby politicians tell American Jews what they want to hear, yet don’t do anything to upset the Mideast apple cart. The truth is, the so-called “Israel Lobby” (a term with a whiff of antisemitism about it, but some accuracy as well) doesn’t really want all these symbolic steps to be imp…

House Health Care Bill Discriminates Against Religious Freedom

By Gordon D. Newby

…ion is allowed for good cause. This is true of the Shafi’i Muslims of Southeast Asia and East Africa. For the Malikis in North Africa and the Hanbalis of Saudi Arabia and the Emirates, ensoulment occurs at day 40, with abortions allowed up to that time. On the basis of Qur’an 2:233, which states that the mother should not be made to suffer on account of the child, many Muslim jurists allow abortion even after the period of ensoulment, particularly…

Perry To Accuse Obama of Appeasement

By Sarah Posner

…rts of Israel in a futile effort to appease Israel’s enemies in the Middle East. I believe that misguided souls in Europe, I believe that the misguided souls in the political brothel that is now the United Nations, and, sadly, that even our own State Department will try once again to turn Israel into crocodile food. Winston Churchill said, “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile in the futile hope that it will eat him last.” In 1938, Czechoslova…

New Poll Reveals Jews May Be Open to Change in Israel Policy

By Benjamin Weiner

…wish base. At the same time, if American Jews are not willing to support the president, they risk a diminishment of their own political capital if he does it anyhow. The J Street data, if nothing else, indicates that there is at least the potential for collaboration between the administration and the Jewish community on a more even-handed American engagement with the Middle East. But we’ll have to wait and see what happens when the Obama doctrine…

‘Enchanted New York’ Offers a Journey Through the City’s Magical History — With Some Mystifying Oversights

By Gordon Haber

…osophical Society-owned Quest Bookshop continues to do business at its 240 East 53rd Street location). I also enjoyed learning about the preponderance of texts that were birthed in New York City—books like Art Magic, published in 1876 by Emma Britten, a medium of English origin who lived at 206 West 38th Street; and the famous Theosophist magazine The Path: A Magazine Devoted to the Brotherhood of Humanity, Theosophy in America, and the Study of O…

The Risks of Remaining Neutral on Egypt

By Haroon Moghul

…states that have brought little economic benefit or sense of dignity. (At least a Chinese citizen can reconcile an absence of political freedoms with an obvious escape from poverty). Egypt is, in this sense, the most excellent example. Hosni Mubarak has presided over the impoverishment of a country that used to be at the center of Arab culture. Once among the wealthiest provinces of the Ottoman Empire dating all the way back to the Roman Empire (w…

Junior Falwell Unmasked Conservatism; Let’s Thank Him For It

By John Stoehr

…slow and gradual change, and stand united against radical attempts to bring it swiftly. But that’s not their true face. Conservatism in practice is a radical ideology reserving the right to betray its stated principles, and to betray community and brotherhood, if it doesn’t get what it wants. Thanks to Jerry Falwell Jr., that’s now easy to see….

Ground Zero is Sacred Space, But Not Just Because of 9/11

By Randall Balmer

…nemy combatants.” But Americans themselves, sooner or later, rise to their better selves and come to embrace the principles of toleration and respect for minorities encoded into our charter documents and symbolized by that tiny parcel of land in lower Manhattan. Not universally, to be sure, and far too belatedly in the case of women and racial minorities, but we Americans generally come around. The proposed Islamic cultural center, Park51, provide…

Moses on the Mayflower: Was the Prophet a Founding Father?

By Linell Cady

…eople from slavery, Moses was also God’s lawgiver. The tension and dynamic between liberty and order, freedom and law, that animates the biblical Exodus narrative is for Feiler at the heart of American democracy. It is a story that is variously invoked, at times inspiring rhetorics of freedom and transformation and at times rhetorics of law and control. Whichever dominates an era, the other’s shadow and influence are not far behind. The dynamics o…

Here’s What to Read on Syria and Egypt

By Haroon Moghul

An observer of the Middle East could be forgiven for having a migraine. The region is a confusing mess of movements, loyalties, agendas, and policies; our own muddled approach is no different—either we reflect what we find, or we produce what we bring to the table, or we’re stuck on a hamster wheel. But the London Review of Books recently published two pieces that are exceptional. The first is Hugh Roberts’ essay on Egypt, The Revolution That Was…