A Retired Asst Professor of Pediatrics currently working in Canada.
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The Forestry Ministry will dispatch 5,000 Muslim preachers in its latest move to campaign against forest destruction, citing the rampant case of illegal logging involving local communities. “Our forests don’t go up in flames on their own, but are intentionally burned because there is this tradition […]
The Jakarta Post | Jajang Jahroni’s article (The Jakarta Post, p. 6) on Friday, July 8, about bringing the ulema back in is thought-provoking. What caught my attention was the sentence: “This is the reason why democratization in many Muslim countries is so poor.” The problem outlined: When ulemas have […]
Israel boasted 10,153 millionaires in 2010, according to a new Merrill Lynch-Capgemini 2011 World Wealth Report. The annual survey showed that the number of Israeli millionaires rose 20.6 percent from 2009, when there were ‘just’ 8,419 millionaires. The report also found that the gross amount of capital of Israeli millionaires […]
Source: Israel21c A new Israeli-developed tool enables the disabled to send emails by thought alone, and could revolutionize the world of mind-controlled computing The able-bodied can blast off an email in seconds, while eating a sandwich and calming a baby. But those less deft with their digits, such as the […]
Attached to the stomach in a minimally invasive procedure, the Israeli-innovated device frees diabetics from pills and injections. Israeli medical device company MetaCure is beginning to commercialize its innovative minimally invasive solution, DIAMOND, which received the European Union’s CE mark in 2007 and is undergoing additional clinical trials. An implantable […]
Source: International business Times: An unknown number of Indonesians were photographed voluntarily laying down on railway tracks- not to protest anything, or because of a death wish, but because they believe that the electrical current from the tracks can cure a number of ailments. Residents of all ages – […]
Source: Jakarta Post Indonesian and Mali envoys took on the US congress on Thursday to showcase that democracy is alive and functioning in their Muslim-majority nations, defying the widely held view in the West, and in some quarters in the Muslim world, that Islam and democracy clashed with one another. […]
Source: ynetnews.com Dozens of members of Council of Progressive Rabbis sign ‘manifesto’ calling controversial bill adopted by Knesset ‘a dangerous move unlike any other, which repeatedly erodes Israel’s Jewish character’ Dozens of Reform rabbis have signed a “manifesto” against the boycott bill adopted by the Knesset this week and are […]
Source: haaretz.com “The will of Israel” does not derive from civilian, minority-majority norms, nor is it based on a constitution that guarantees minority rights and defines when a minority has the option to rise up against the government. Instead, “the will of Israel” derives from an ultra-nationalist version of the […]
Source: Ikhwan Web The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) condemns UNESCO’s recent decision to introduce Occupied Jerusalem as the capital of Israel on its website, in a grave violation of UN Security Council Resolutions which consider East Jerusalem Occupied TheMuslim Brotherhood (MB) condemns UNESCO’s recent decision to introduce Occupied Jerusalem as the […]
Source: Khaleej Times Indonesia on Friday arrested a principal of an Islamic boarding school suspected of being a bomb factory, following an explosion inside the campus that killed a man earlier this week, police said. Identified only as Abrori, the teacher was detained at his parents’ house in Bolo sub-district […]
JERUSALEM, July 14 (UPI) — Dozens of Israeli law professors are protesting the controversial Boycott Law that they say is unconstitutional but the government says is necessary. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said he backs the law passed Monday, adding that the measure does not hurt Israel’s image, Haaretz reported […]
Welcome to Little Jerusalem, the thriving community of Jews deep in the mountains of Muslim Azerbaijan The mountains are iced with white snow and there is soft blossom on the nut trees. Broad, grey and bouldered, the Gudialcay river rushes east towards the Caspian Sea; a few miles north is […]
The Israeli government said it has given final approval to the construction of a museum over part of an ancient graveyard in Jerusalem. The project was delayed for years by objections from local Muslims. Israeli interior ministry spokeswoman Efrat Orbach said the Museum of Tolerance received a permit on Tuesday […]
Migrant worker Darsem says she is not worried about the idea of working abroad again, following an ordeal that saw her rescued from Saudi Arabia where she was facing the death penalty for killing a man who tried to rape her. “I would not say I feel apprehensive, but I […]
A program that offers the warmth and wisdom of Jewish tradition together with the cutting edge of psychological and educational technology at the particular location on this planet that connects all Jews throughout all generations. When a teenager is struggling with emotional or behavioral issues like defiance, depression, or drug […]
JERUSALEM — Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews clashed with police in a conservative neighbourhood of Jerusalem on Wednesday as tax officials tried to carry out inspections, a police spokesman told AFP. Micky Rosenfeld said six police officers were lightly injured as some 300 protestors threw projectiles at them, and six demonstrators […]
Growth is a ‘challenge and an opportunity’ UN says, as activists campaign for easier access to family planning tools. The United Nations commemorates World Population Day against the backdrop of an upcoming landmark event: global population hitting the seven billion mark by late October this year. According to current projections, […]
Op-ed: We tend to feel isolated, but recent events show Israel does have friends in the world Being alone is something that we Jews are used to. From our inception, we walked a different path as outsiders to the larger religious, cultural, and national identities. Our tradition taught that it […]
The vast majority of young Muslims in Indonesia and Malaysia appear to disapprove of the traditional acceptance of polygamy but remain reluctant to openly support interfaith marriages or premarital sex, a new survey shows. In the survey coordinated by two German-based cultural organizations, 86.5 percent of 1,496 Indonesians interviewed and 72.7 percent […]