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A picture is worth far more than 1000 words - literally. Science tells us that the human brain devotes 27 per cent of its processing power to visual input, while auditory information takes up only 8 per cent.
During the eighth century CE, some 1300 years ago, Muslims established the unprecedented concept of "religious sciences." It was the first time in history that religion was treated as a discipline of higher learning, allowing scholars to research and teach its implications for every other academic subject.
Since the October 7 start of the current and so far, most destructive conflict between Israel and Palestinians, I've had to articulate the developing news to my grandchildren, the Twitter generation, as follows:
Prof. Cotler is wrong
1. I have visited more than 50 countries, including Yemen, whose historic buildings in the cities of Sana’a, Taiz and Aden boast some of the world’s most beautiful architecture. And the beautiful landscape of Yemen is not matched anywhere in the world.
Attitudes towards the Other within Judaism lie in myth, narrative, legend, and law. The narrative of differentiation occupies a central place in Judaism and infuses the development of both its laws and identity.
Canada's parliamentarians have formed a committee to fight antisemitism.
The proposed Quebec Values Charter does not respond to any real need in our society. Rather, it looks like an inappropriate import from Europe.
This is what I sent to The Gazette:
It is rarely a good idea to draw maps in a hurry. But this is what colonial cartographers did in the Arab world after the First World War, and the borders they painted were superimposed on old tribal and religious attachments that long predated the new states.
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