Here are the Blogs in the NER category.
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Imperialist Islam Unveiled: A wide ranging interview with Dr. Mark Durie
by Jerry Gordon (February 2012)
Dr. Mark Durie is an Australian Anglican minister, human rights activist and theologian. An academic linguist by training, he was honored in 1992 as one of the youngest elected fellows in the Australian Academy of Humanities for his research and development of
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Posted on 01/31/2012 3:18 PM by NER
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
From Teacher to Tutor: Solving Israel’s School Crisis
by Geoffrey Clarfield (February 2012)
According to a recent report from the Taub Center for policy analysis there has been a 41% increase in students who graduate from high school in Israel. In addition, they found that teachers' knowledge had improved. This may sound wonderful but anyone who
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Posted on 01/31/2012 3:11 PM by NER
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
The Mystery of the Capriccio Papers
by Lucy Beckett (February 2012)
John Eliot Holmes, his wife Jane, and their daughter Claire, all died in a car accident in Australia in 2010. I never got the chance to know him well, but I certainly liked him. He worked with me briefly as a legal consultant at Glasgow City Council in Scotland, and
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Posted on 01/31/2012 3:04 PM by NER
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Who Destroyed Classical Civilization?
by Emmet Scott (February 2012)
For centuries scholars assumed that the civilization of ancient Rome, the civilization we now call “classical,” was destroyed by the barbarian tribes of Germany and central Asia who, during the fourth and fifth centuries swarmed into the Empire and destroyed
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Posted on 01/31/2012 2:55 PM by NER
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Jacques Barzun, Wisdom and Grace
by Rebecca Bynum (February 2012)
Jacques Barzun: Portrait of a Mind
By Michael Murray
Frederic C. Beil (2011)
384 pp.
Jacques Barzun is a towering scholarly intellect, a perceptive and incisive historian as well as one of the most graceful and witty writers of Twentieth Century
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Posted on 01/31/2012 2:47 PM by NER
Friday, 27 January 2012
VERITAS NIHIL VERETUR NISI ABSCONDI ("Truth fears nothing but to be hidden")
George Aaron writes of his ongoing battle with UCLA Law School:
In response to a series of open letters to the UCLA Law Faculty re Prof. El Fadl [ http://tinyurl.com/8538gko ], I received this reply from a law professor (who will go unnamed):
Dear Mr. Aaron,
Later today, or perhaps tomorrow,
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Posted on 01/27/2012 6:02 AM by NER
Monday, 23 January 2012
McCarthy: Islam is Islam And That's It
Andrew McCarthy sends us the following from National Reivew (Jan. 23 dead tree edition):
The tumult indelibly dubbed “the Arab Spring” in the West, by the credulous and the calculating alike, is easier to understand once you grasp two basics. First, the most important fact in the Arab world
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Posted on 01/23/2012 7:10 AM by Andy McCarthy
Sunday, 15 January 2012
Al Kitab reviews The Left is Seldom Right
Ibn Sufi al Kitab reviews Norman Berdichevsky's book, The Left is Seldom Right, in Western Civilization.
Norman Berdichevsky has written an important book on the perversion and rather useless innuendo around the political terms 'Left and Right'. In 'The Left is not always Right',
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Posted on 01/15/2012 3:09 PM by NER
Saturday, 14 January 2012
Prof. Khaled Abou El Fadl -- Pernicious peddler of poisonous piffle?
George Aaron recently wrote to the UCLA School of Law Faculty Members:
As you may know, I have begun a campaign to discourage law school alumni from donating money to the law school until the longstanding and well documented charges of academic misfeasance and malfeasance against Dr. El Fadl are
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Posted on 01/14/2012 1:24 PM by George Aaron
Saturday, 14 January 2012
Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisited in Stock at Amazon
The official release date for Emmet Scott's excellent Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisited: The History of a Controversy is tomorrow, the 15th, but it is now in stock at Amazon. Here is the first customer review:
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Devestating
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Posted on 01/14/2012 5:33 AM by NER
Sunday, 8 January 2012
Islam, Democracy and the Arab Spring: An Interview with Raphael Israeli
by Jerry Gordon and Michael Bates (January 2012)
Professor Raphael Israeli, retired Professor of Islamic and Chinese History at Hebrew University spoke at a private luncheon and a formal talk in Pensacola, Florida on January 5, 2012. The formal presentation was before an audience at B’nai
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Posted on 01/08/2012 10:30 AM by NER
Saturday, 31 December 2011
Suggestions for a New Years Eve
by Esmerelda Weatherwax (January 2012)
It’s New Year’s Eve and a night at ones local pub is as good a way as any to spend it.
My preference would be for a nice glass of beer and, as you can imagine, there are many pubs named for, or with signs celebrating the brewing process.
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Posted on 12/31/2011 2:08 PM by NER
Saturday, 31 December 2011
Games of Survival
How Some Holocaust Children Learned To Conquer Death
by Thomas Ország-Land (January 2012)
Many child survivors of the Holocaust owed their lives to the deadly serious business of games played collectively or alone, that enabled them to adjust to dangerous situations,
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Posted on 12/31/2011 2:02 PM by NER
Saturday, 31 December 2011
My Mother Told Me the Whole Story
In Yiddish: Mein Mutter Hat Mir Gesagt die Ganze Geschicte
by Thomas J. Scheff (January 2012)
My mother came from a poor Jewish family who had emigrated from Russia to New Orleans. When their father disappeared in the Alaska Gold Rush, all the children
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Posted on 12/31/2011 1:57 PM by NER
Saturday, 31 December 2011
The Golden Renaissance of English Music
by Em Marshall-Luck (January 2012)
“These people have no ear, either for rhythm or music, and their unnatural passion for piano playing and singing is thus all the more repulsive. Nothing on earth is more terrible than English music, save English painting,” wrote the German poet Heinrich
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Posted on 12/31/2011 1:48 PM by NER
Saturday, 31 December 2011
Out of the Shadow of God
by David Hamilton (January 2012)
For most of our history art was produced within the Christian tradition and presented a Christian message and awe-inspiring, positive feelings. In more recent times with the growth of secular ideology art has become negative and spreads misery and unhappiness and,
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Posted on 12/31/2011 1:43 PM by NER
Saturday, 31 December 2011
A Parable for Our Time
by Dexter Van Zile (January 2012)
Imagine yourself up in heaven, prior to your birth. You are an unborn soul standing before the Creator of the Universe. He speaks to you. more>>>
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Posted on 12/31/2011 1:36 PM by NER
Saturday, 31 December 2011
Faust’s Guilty Conscience and Other Crimes Against Opera
by Janet Tassel (January 2012)
I’m reading from the liner notes for my very old LP of Gounod’s opera, Faust. Here we are introduced to Faust himself:
“The curtain rises and we are in the study of Dr. Faustus, the learned alchemist, in a town in mediaeval Germany.
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Posted on 12/31/2011 1:30 PM by NER
Saturday, 31 December 2011
Per Ardua Ad Astra
by Jack Dixon (January 2012)
The motto of the Royal Air Force is famous. It is Per Ardua Ad Astra (roughly: “through struggle to the stars”).
This motto was adopted to symbolize both the goal, and the striving to achieve the goal, of the Royal Air Force from the day of its creation
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Posted on 12/31/2011 1:23 PM by NER
Saturday, 31 December 2011
The Car on the Shore
Nightmare at Scapa Flow reconsidered
A review by David Wemyss (January 2012)
At twenty-seven minutes past midnight on 14 October 1939, soon after the beginning of the Second World War, the German submarine U-47 sailed quietly alongside the little village of St Mary’s on the Orkney mainland
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Posted on 12/31/2011 1:18 PM by NER
Saturday, 31 December 2011
Unreading Julius Caesar
by David P. Gontar (January 2012)
I. Introduction: A Tale of Two Critics
IN
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Posted on 12/31/2011 1:06 PM by NER
Saturday, 31 December 2011
Arab Spring and Future Scenarios
by Samir Yousif (January 2012)
The Arab Spring
It may be correct to assume that the masses in the Middle East have a very short memory, or they are not willing to learn from non-Arab experiences. At this point I am referring to the Iranian Islamic Revolution of the 1970’s. Any re-evaluation
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Posted on 12/31/2011 12:54 PM by NER
Saturday, 31 December 2011
A One Plank Platform, Please!
by G. Murphy Donovan (January 2012)
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” - Hans Hofmann
Making promises that can not possibly be kept may be the fatal flaw of all social democracies. America is no exception. Continuing
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Posted on 12/31/2011 12:45 PM by NER
Saturday, 31 December 2011
Dialogue with Radical Muslims is Dangerous for American Jews
by Jerry Gordon (January 2012)
Introduction
Jewish interfaith dialogue with Muslims has moved beyond mere episodes to one of joint services and soon, joint sanctuaries. It is an insidious form of Da’wah (call to Islam) that some Jewish communal groups are dangerously courting, an act of self
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Posted on 12/31/2011 12:39 PM by NER
Saturday, 31 December 2011
Camels, Canoes and Timbuktu
exploring the history of a fabled city
by Geoffrey Clarfield (January 2012)
…is the rumour of Timbuctoo
A dream as frail as those of ancient Time?
---Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1829
In 1829 when Alfred Lord Tennyson was writing his poem on Timbuctoo as a student at Cambridge University,
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Posted on 12/31/2011 12:32 PM by NER
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