by Henry Oliner | Dec 23, 2014 | Islam, Israel, Jewish, Religion
from There Is a ‘Worst Sin’: Evil in God’s Name by Dennis Prager in The National Review When an irreligious person commits evil, it doesn’t bring God and religion into disrepute. But when a religious person commits evil in God’s name he destroys the greatest hope for...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 28, 2014 | Anti Semitism, Israel, Jewish
Rarely is a conflict been as morally clear as the current Gaza campaign. The history is clear and indisputable. Israel left Gaza, painfully uprooting committed settlers. Thriving greenhouses were left for the Palestinians to have a productive enterprise. The new...
by Henry Oliner | Mar 8, 2013 | Jewish
The Orthodox Surge by David Brooks at the New York Times Excerpt: Those of us in secular America live in a culture that takes the supremacy of individual autonomy as a given. Life is a journey. You choose your own path. You can live in the city or the suburbs, be a...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 3, 2012 | Jewish
Interesting data on where the Jews in the world are. World Jewish Population The worldwide Jewish population is 13.3 million Jews. Jewish population growth worldwide is close to zero percent. From 2000 to 2001 it rose 0.3%, compared to worldwide population growth of...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 26, 2012 | Jewish
Daniel Greenfield writes in his blog Sultan Knish, The Jewish and Post-Jewish Vote, 10/25/12 Excerpts: In 1892, Jews came to the United States as cheap labor. In 1946 they came with the remnants of communities that they were determined to rebuild. While the second...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 26, 2012 | Jewish
Daniel Greenfield writes in his blog Sultan Knish, The Jewish and Post-Jewish Vote, 10/25/12 Excerpts: American Jews can be broken down roughly into the products of three periods of immigration. This second wave turned rigidly Democratic under the rough tutelage of...
