http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/12/education/12yale.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin After more than a year of talks, Yale University has backed away from its plan for an arts institute in Abu Dhabi, involving Yale’s art, music, architecture and drama schools. The stumbling block, ultimately, was Abu Dhabi’s insistence that…
read moreIrfan Al-Alawi, international director (London)1, Stephen Schwartz, executive director (Washington, DC), schwartz@islamicpluralism.eu1 http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/336/7648/834 1 Centre for Islamic Pluralism The disclosure that the leading alleged conspirators in lastyear’s bombing attempts in London and Glasgow were Muslimdoctors sent a shockwave through the…
read morehttp://www.juedische.at/TCgi/_v2/TCgi.cgi?target=home&Param_Kat=3&Param_RB=4&Param_Red=9709 Israel wird den Palästinensern alle archäologischen Funde, die seit 1967 im Westjordanland und in Ostjerusalem ausgegraben worden sind, einschließlich derer aus Ostjerusalemer Museen, übereignen, während die Palästinenser erwägen werden, Israel Gegenstände von “tiefem symbolischen Wert” für das jüdische Volk…
read moreThe Hebrew University of JerusalemThe Leonard Davis Institutefor International Relations The purpose of this fellowship is to provide an American scholar with the chance and up to $32,500 to come to the Hebrew University (Israel) to conduct research and/or prepare…
read morehttp://www.jewishtribune.ca/TribuneV2/content/view/520/35/ OTTAWA – Most media attention on university anti-Israel and antisemitic propaganda has focussed on three major universities in Toronto: U of T, York and Ryerson. But Ottawa Jewish students have suffered too and now they are fighting back. Called…
read morehttp://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1207649995125&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull The administration of the Islamic University in Hebron decided Saturday to suspend studies until further notice following fierce clashes on campus between students affiliated with Fatah and Hamas. The clashes erupted after students belonging to the Hamas-affiliated Islamic List…
read moreFrankfurter Buchmesse Brancheninformationen / News In diesem Jahr jährt sich die Gründung des Staates Israel zum 60. Mal. Grund genug, sich den israelischen Buchmarkt genauer anzusehen: In einer aktuellen Studie hat die Frankfurter Buchmesse Daten und Entwicklungen aus den letzten…
read morewww.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-israel-antiquities_grossmanapr11,1,4619041.story With a nudge from American colleagues, Israeli and Palestinian archeologists have drawn up a blueprint for sharing their intersecting cultural heritage-if and when peace comes to the Holy Land, where scholarly objectivity is often drowned out by nationalist passions.…
read morehttp://web.mit.edu/cis/jerusalem2050/just_jerusalem/winners.html#tab_4 Cambridge, Mass, March 21, 2008–MIT’s Jerusalem 2050 Program, a joint initiative sponsored by the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the Center for International Studies, announced today the winners of its global Just Jerusalem competition. The open contest…
read morehttp://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/04/09/anti-semitism_said_on_rise_in_canada/4945/ Anti-Semitic incidents have jumped 400 percent in the past 10 years in Canada, a B’nai Brith Canada study released Wednesday indicates. The group said in its annual survey that there were 1,042 incidents reported in 2007, up 11.4 percent…
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