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    The Phenomenon of the Oppressed becoming the Oppressor The dilemma and correlation to indigenous people and ethnic conflict as they struggle to survive and thrive in a world that consistently try to strip them of their dignity and humanity. He retorted, “Am I My Brother’s Keepers?” rings loud and clear in my ears and in the deepest part of my consciousness as I study and reflect on the Palestinian and Israeli conflict. This was the response given by Cain to God when asked, “Where is your…

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    Road To Mecca Analysis

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    "The Road to Mecca", is a book written by Muhammad Asad. He is an Austrian Jewish who converted to Islam by the end of the 1920's. The Road to Mecca was not only a description for the author's trip to Mecca, but an intellectual, historical, political and novel book that describes the author's feeling of Islam and the Muslim World. Muhammad Asad was a journalist, traveler, philosopher, historian, diplomat, thinker, scholar and a great believer in the religion he decided to convert to. In this…

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    Upon completing Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir, a book detailing Solzhenitsyn’s account of the terrors of the Soviet Gulag, I picked up my copy of Krauthammer’s article At Last Zion and read through its seven pages. I am uncertain which text is more terrifying. Grandiose fatalistic vaticinations abound in Krauthammer’s piece. American Jewry, we are told, will decline and ultimately disappear. Later on we read that Israel, the renascent Jewish homeland, is “the last hope.” Though we are afforded…

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    role of American Jews and how their leadership and collaboration led to the first recognized Jewish state. The contribution by Jewish Americans before, during, and after World War II to incite sympathy, generate funds, and enlighten the world to Zionism is largely overlooked. However, it plays a large role in the war effort, and an even larger role in the United Nations decision to create Israel and the postwar diplomacy between The United States and a Jewish…

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    Great Citizenship

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    Does Travel Foster Great Citizenship? If you were offered a free ten-day trip to one of the holiest places in the world would you accept it? Since the establishment of Taglit-birthright, hundreds of thousands of young Jews have visited Israel on an all-expense-paid tour known as Birthright Israel. Birthright encourages young Jewish adults to expand and join the global Jewish communities. The Taglit-Birthright program does this through activities, religious social events, and engaging…

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    To begin, the letter to Lord Rothschild by British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour, which became known as the “Balfour Declaration”, announced the creation of a Jewish state to the world. Arthur James Balfour wrote this letter to Britain’s most illustrious Jewish citizen, Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild, expressing the British government’s support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine, writing “His Majesty’s Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the…

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    It is now more than fifty years since the State of Israel was established. It has passed the initial stages of nation-building and is today, in many respects, a Western, technological society. It was built on the experience of ideologically driven Jewish settlement which began in the nineteenth century. Israel has a background of the Holocaust, ongoing military struggle with neighboring countries, and the necessity of absorbing unprecedented numbers of new immigrants from very different culture.…

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    Why Was Dyfus Unfair

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    ruined just because of his religion? The Dreyfus Affair was blatant anti-semitism. An innocent French soldier was convicted for a dreadful crime, just because he was Jewish. It is clear he was only imprisoned as a result of anti-semitism for countless reasons. Firstly, Dreyfus was the only Jew in the French Army. Secondly, there was a lot of anti-semitic statements coming out at this time, displaying that there was influx of anti-semitism in France at this time. Thirdly, another letter was found…

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    Produced in 1939 by Edgar G. Ulmer, The Light Ahead highlights a transition away from past superstitious beliefs toward Jewish Enlightenment thinking. The film is set in a small village of Glupsk, which serves to portray Jewish shtetl life as a juxtaposition to big city life. In his film, Ulmer pushes for the furtherance of Jewish Enlightenment through underlining stark contrasts in opinion between religious leaders of the village and Mendele, a book peddler and Jewish Enlightenment thinker.…

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    Europeans reinvigorated the Zionist movement through continuous poor treatment of the Jews. Politically, Europeans supported Zionism due to their dislike of the Jews. They supported the Jews leaving. This had the opposite effect the Palestinians. They saw the Jews as essentially illegal immigrants who didn’t belong in Palestine. Americans originally viewed Zionism as a good thing due to the religious idea of restorationism. However, after World War II, politics played…

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