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Here are the Blogs in the Richard L. Rubenstein category.
Sunday, 14 April 2013
If ever a group had reason to sponsor a lecture by Pamela Geller on “Imposition of Sharia in America,” it was Chabad, and Rabbi Yoseph Geisinsky of Chabad of Great Neck (Long Island) is to be commended for having the courage to do so after Ms Geller’s talk was cancelled by the Men’s ...Read More...
Posted on 04/14/2013 10:09 AM by Richard L. Rubenstein
Thursday, 7 February 2013
Recently, I was interviewed at my home by David Birnbaum, author of Summa Metaphysica, Parts I and II, on my book, After Auschwitz, and my theological views starting with the question, “Is God dead?” (Short answer, No). The interview has now been placed on You Tube in three segments. For ...Read More...
Posted on 02/07/2013 9:49 AM by Richard L. Rubenstein
Friday, 4 January 2013
Clifford May really spells out the fundamental issue in the conflict with Islam and why western elites are so clueless in this NRO review of Robert Kaplan's new book. Robert D. Kaplan has long been among America’s most insightful analysts of global trends. I’d rather argue ...Read More...
Posted on 01/04/2013 6:36 AM by Richard L. Rubenstein
Monday, 17 December 2012
Claudia Rosett writes in NRO Alarm bells ought to be going off because of the quiet trip to Washington this week of the head of the Paris-based UNESCO — the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. For at least the fourth time since last December, UNESCO director-general ...Read More...
Posted on 12/17/2012 4:50 AM by Richard L. Rubenstein
Tuesday, 28 August 2012
On Tuesday August 21, the Obama campaign launched  “Rabbis for Obama,” with a list of some 613 rabbis who had declared their support for the President’s reelection. The announcement came after a sequence of events that began when it became known that the White House had agreed, ...Read More...
Posted on 08/28/2012 10:56 AM by Richard L. Rubenstein
Friday, 15 June 2012
Tufail Ahmad writes at MEMRI: Introduction Hizb Al-Tahrir America, which is a branch of Hizb Al-Tahrir Al-Islami, an international Islamist group that advocates the message of jihad in order to re-establish a Khilafah Rashida (a righteous caliphate), has scheduled a June 17, 2012 conference in Rolling ...Read More...
Posted on 06/15/2012 1:59 PM by Richard L. Rubenstein
Friday, 18 May 2012
Dr. Richard L. Rubenstein, noted theologian, scholar and author of many works including most recently Jihad & Genocide I must begin by expressing my regret that I cannot receive this recognition in person. Because of the illness of my wife, truly my intellectual and spiritual partner over the ...Read More...
Posted on 05/18/2012 12:46 PM by Richard L. Rubenstein
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
In December 1941, I was a member of the Junior Society of New York’s Temple Emanu-el. On Saturday evening December 6, 1941, the Junior Society held a formal dance.  I was within a month of my 18th birthday and the dance was the first time I wore formal dress. I actually wore an overly-formal, ...Read More...
Posted on 12/07/2011 4:48 PM by Richard L. Rubenstein
Saturday, 15 October 2011
By Richard L. Rubenstein FrontPageMagazine.com| September 7, 2005                                                                                 (revised ...Read More...
Posted on 10/15/2011 4:10 PM by Richard L. Rubenstein
Friday, 23 September 2011
Dr. Richard L. Rubenstein I listened to President  Obama’s rabbi call yesterday. The whole operation was managed by the Reform movement with leftist Rabbi David Saperstein acting as chairperson and droolingly thanking the President for all he had done. Rabbi David Saperstein is married ...Read More...
Posted on 09/23/2011 5:00 PM by Richard L. Rubenstein
Friday, 29 April 2011
The Wall Street Journal was not exactly enthusiastic about President Obama’s choice of General David Petraeus to succeed Leon Panetta as Director of the CIA. (“Obama’s Security Shuffle,”  April 29, 2011,). Arguing that the General has “earned a promotion to be ...Read More...
Posted on 04/29/2011 1:07 PM by Richard L. Rubenstein
Sunday, 24 April 2011
Today’s NYT Book Review section contains a review of Alexandra Styron’s new biography of her father, William Styron, Reading My Father. The review reminded me of the enormous debt I owed to Styron. In 1975, a book I authored, The Cunning of History, was published. It was almost completely ...Read More...
Posted on 04/24/2011 12:51 PM by Richard L. Rubenstein
Friday, 25 March 2011
This morning (March 25, 2011),  the New York Times published an important article, “Islamist Group is Rising Force in a New Egypt.”  We should not be surprised at this development. For all the NPR, NYT, and CNN talk of a "moderate," new Muslim Brotherhood (MB), what has ...Read More...
Posted on 03/25/2011 10:52 AM by Richard L. Rubenstein
Friday, 18 March 2011
On January 27, 2011, designated by the UN as "Holocaust Memorial Day,” 400 rabbis placed an ad in the Wall Street Journal in the form of an open letter to Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and CEO of the News Corporation, requesting that Glenn Beck be “sanctioned” for “his unscrupulous ...Read More...
Posted on 03/18/2011 3:27 PM by Richard L. Rubenstein
Saturday, 27 November 2010
On October 25, 2010, the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) hosted an interfaith forum on "Judaism and Islam in America Today: Assimilation and Authenticity." The participants in the panel were Chancellor Arnold Eisen of the Seminary, Sherman Jackson, professor of Islam at the University of Michigan, ...Read More...
Posted on 11/27/2010 9:32 AM by Richard L. Rubenstein
Tuesday, 9 November 2010
In a SPIEGEL interview, Dutch Islam-opponent Geert Wilders discusses his fight for a Koran ban, why German Chancellor Angela Merkel is running scared on the immigration issue and his belief that the Netherlands' debate over Muslims has now crossed the border into Germany. SPIEGEL: Mr. Wilders, ...Read More...
Posted on 11/09/2010 3:39 PM by Richard L. Rubenstein
Sunday, 10 October 2010
Steve Lipman writes in Jewish Week: In the shadow of the controversial planned Islamic center near Ground Zero and a State Department alert about suspected Al- Qaeda attacks in Europe, several dozen experts on the threat to national security posed by contemporary Muslims met here Sunday - and a ...Read More...
Posted on 10/10/2010 12:01 PM by Richard L. Rubenstein
Saturday, 25 September 2010
Having twice been honored with Emeritus status (Lawton Distinguished Professor of Religion Emeritus at Florida State University and President Emeritus of the University of Bridgeport), I was more than a little interested to learn that the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois at Chicago had ...Read More...
Posted on 09/25/2010 3:41 PM by Richard L. Rubenstein
Tuesday, 18 May 2010
As this WSJ editorial suggests, this is a strategic fiasco.  Add to this, Iran’s de facto alliance with Cuba and Cesaar Chavez’s Venezuela, Russia’s arms deal with Syria, China’s deals with Iran, and we have the basis for a global anti-American coalition with America ...Read More...
Posted on 05/18/2010 8:28 AM by Richard L. Rubenstein
Saturday, 17 April 2010
Dr. Richard L. Rubenstein writes. Thanks to the New York Times article, “Obama Speech Signals a Shift on Middle East,” (April 15, 2010), we now are reasonably certain that the President regards resolving the Middle East conflict as a “vital national security interest of the ...Read More...
Posted on 04/17/2010 4:04 PM by Richard L. Rubenstein
Wednesday, 2 September 2009
by Rabbi John Crites-Borak   September 1, 2009. The seventieth anniversary of the start of World War Two. The invasion of Poland. I mark this day with a profound sadness that may seem odd for one who was born seven years after the war ended, and especially since Viet Nam is seen as the war of ...Read More...
Posted on 09/02/2009 10:06 AM by Richard L. Rubenstein
Tuesday, 1 September 2009
Today marks the seventieth anniversary of the start of World War II. In our worst dreams, those of us who were old enough to have an inkling of what was happening - I was a high school senior - we never imagined how nightmarish that war would be.  On a personal note, there has always been ...Read More...
Posted on 09/01/2009 3:46 PM by Richard L. Rubenstein
Sunday, 30 August 2009
Who are Amrit Singh and Jameel Jaffer? They are attorneys for the ACLU which in the past has defended American Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan in the name of "freedom  of expression." I found a story about them, with their pictures, in the New York  Times  for ...Read More...
Posted on 08/30/2009 4:04 PM by Richard L. Rubenstein
Friday, 7 August 2009
I was dismayed that a scholar of Fouad Ajami's eminence would state in his review of Christopher Caldwell's Reflections on the Revolution In Europe,  "The question of Islam in Europe has occasioned calls of alarm about 'Eurabia'” (Book Review, August 2, 2009).  There is ...Read More...
Posted on 08/07/2009 6:58 PM by Richard L. Rubenstein
Monday, 15 June 2009
I have just completed the manuscript of Jihad and Genocide and sent it off today to the publishers (Rowman and Littlefield in US & UK , Editions Les Provinciales in France .)  It is not a cheerful book. One of my conclusions after four grueling years working on it, is that they mean ...Read More...
Posted on 06/15/2009 7:50 PM by Richard L. Rubenstein



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