Professor Norman Rosenfeld, a cultural historian at a small Canadian university, has almost finished his new and controversial book about Israel and the Jewish people. He learns that his daughter, on a one-year study program at an Israeli university, has been injured in a terrorist attack. Rosenfeld, a widower, rushes to Israel, along with his father, an elderly Holocaust survivor, named "Lucky". While in Israel visiting his injured daughter, at the height of the "Second Intifada", Rosenfeld, an Orthodox Jew, meets and falls in love with a secular Israeli woman. Chapters of the Professor's book on Israel and the Jewish people are interspersed amongst the events of the novel. The dramatic events and difficulties of Rosenfeld's life mirror catastrophic events in the life of the Jewish people. His journey to overcome these catastrophes is at the core of The Second Catastrophe.

The Second Catastrophe

Literature & Fiction

Rotberg, Howard

Contemporary

Mantua Books Ltd.

Showdown with Evil is a collection of 29 of Dr. Jamie Glazov's best interviews, while serving as editor of Frontpagemag.com, with the leading intellectuals and newsmakers of our time -- all of whom contribute to understanding, and opposing, radical Islam and its leftist apologists. Glazov, whose parents were dissidents in the former Soviet Union, shows in his conduct of these interviews that he understands the values of freedom and the need to fight for it. The collection, which begins with a Foreword by Richard Perle, former assistant Secretary of Defense for the Reagan administration, offers a powerful and honest assessment of the implications of this threat as well as a warning that should not go unheeded. It's a crash course in how to protect American liberty from its totalitarian and terrorist enemies. Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney, USAF (Ret.), called Showdown With Evil, “The most important book in America.

Showdown With Evil: Our Struggle Against Tyranny and Terror

Politics & Social Sciences

Glazov, Jamie

Politics & Government

The author argues that we have entered an ideology of "Tolerism" - an unhealthy degree of tolerance without limits, and an excessive leniency towards those who represent the most intolerant and illiberal societies. He observes how cultural and moral relativism, moral equivalency, and political correctness have all contributed to a modern political culture whose elites and cultural symbols evidence, not only an undue tolerance of the illiberals, but a disturbing element of self-hatred, cultural masochism, and delusions about the difference between social tolerance and political tolerance - and an elevation of tolerance over the principle of Justice. This original work has been updated in 2013 and will challenge readers' views of contemporary political culture and the values and ideologies of many of our elites.

TOLERism: The Ideology Revealed

Social Sciences

For over a century, and for over 50 years after the Holocaust, the Vatican has been hostile to the creation of a Jewish homeland in the Middle East with its capital as Jerusalem. For 60 years after the Jewish State gained independence in 1948, the Catholic Church adopted a policy fitting to Israel’s Arab-Islamic enemies: total non-recognition of Jewish statehood and peoplehood. Despite acceptance by every Western nation, Israel was not accorded formal diplomatic recognition by the Vatican before 1993. The Church formally recognized Israel’s existence only two decades after Israel’s foe, Egypt’s Sadat, signed a peace treaty with the Jewish State. Apparently only the Vatican considered the State of Israel undeserving of its recognition. How do we explain this refusal? Catholicism had long viewed Judaism as a pariah faith and the Jews a group destined to wander the earth for their complicity in the death of Jesus. Although the Second Vatican Council partially revoked this anti-Semitic doctrine in 1965, since then the Vatican rapprochement with the Jewish people took place at two levels, which the Vatican separated, theologically and politically. Each advance on the first plane was counterbalanced by a deeper regression on the second, as if the two movements were synchronized. The closer the Vatican seemed to draw toward reconciliation and dialogue with Judaism, the louder grew the clamor supporting the Arab cause against Israel. The Vatican Against Israel: J’ACCUSE deciphers, for the first time, the Vatican’s criminalization of the State of Israel and its appeasement of anti-Semitic terrorism in the period between 1945 and 2013. This book urgently matters not only to Jews, but also to Christians, since the two religions share moral values and a common scripture. Jesus was Jewish, and for better or worse, Jews and Christians have lived together in Europe and the Middle East for 2000 years. In fact in many parts of the Christian world, Christians have rediscovered their Jewish roots. With its more than one billion adherents and strategic influence in the Middle East where Israel is under existential threat by Islamic terror groups and an Iranian apocalyptic revolution, the Vatican has an intrinsic relationship with Israel different from Israel's relationship with any other group. How the Vatican will relate to Israel and its Jews will affect future relations between Christians and Jews. With Israel still establishing the terms of its existence and the Zionists’ current struggle for their own future, the Vatican has the chance to redeem its past mistakes. Will it do so?

The Vatican Against Israel: J'accuse

Religion & Spirituality

Meotti, Giulio

Christian Books & Bibles

Mansur’s book, Delectable Lie: a liberal repudiation of multiculturalism, is a recipient of The Eric Hoffer Awards’ 2014 Montaigne Medal for most thought-provoking title by a small publisher. Now in its second edition the book includes an added Preface geared toward the American audience. As both Canada and the United States continue to deal with multiculturalism issues, Delectable Lie is more relevant and timely than ever. From the book: “My point is that although multiculturalism once seemed a very good idea, at least to politicians and others smitten with the ambition for unity, it is increasingly shown to be a lie—a delectable lie, perhaps, yet a lie nevertheless—that is destructive of the West’s liberal democratic heritage, tradition, and values based on individual rights and freedoms. This could have been foretold, as indeed those philosophers and historians of ideas who viewed freedom as immeasurably more important than equality in the development of the West did foretell. They admonished people against the temptation to abridge freedom in pursuit of equality.”

Delectable Lie: a liberal repudiation of multiculturalism

Mansur, Salim

Today, we are up against tribal societies whose ethic is one of honor and shame and where blood revenge is in the veins, where violence begets violence that, over time, can lead to a sense of helplessness, hopelessness, and victim-hood. At the same time, too many of us born into freedom have become apathetic to, even neglectful of, the very ethic that underpins that freedom. It is time to go back to the founding ethic of Western culture, ethical monotheism, and reclaim our western values. Winston Churchill wrote that the ethical system we received from the Jewish people is “incomparably the most precious possession of mankind, worth in fact the fruits of all other wisdom and learning put together. On that system and by that faith there has been built out of the wreck of the Roman Empire the whole of our existing civilization.” Sadly, we stopped teaching this potent biblical ethic years ago because somewhere along the way to political correctness nirvana, God and religion became four-letter words. We must wake up to the fact that our way of life is under attack: Not only from acts of terrorism leaching into our countries but internal pressures of worshiping the false gods of absolute tolerance, inclusion, and accommodation to the point that we welcome beliefs, customs, and rituals that undermine our democracy—in the name of democracy! If we are going to preserve the freedoms we now take for granted we must return to that teaching, to words that bear great fruit, because the foundation of Western democracy is ethical monotheism, the 3500 year old ethic which began in the desert, was brought into Israel, then expanded outward with the spread of Christianity through the Mediterranean then into Europe where the teachings were translated into English and brought to the new world. Countries that are founded on the Bible became functioning and then flourishing democracies. This book of laws, gave us amongst other values, the fundamentals of our court and justice systems and business law. The Bible entreats us to be our brother’s keeper by moving away from tribal behaviors, to behave like Abraham who questioned God and protested on behalf of others, so that we develop, practice, and internalize compassion and empathy. These values are essential for democracy to function, because a just society must at times implement policies that disregard individual wants and needs. Within the leaves of Back to the Ethic: Reclaiming Western Values you will find compelling reasons; historical, philosophical, scientific, sociological and psychological, to reclaim our founding ethic, to make it your own, protect and defend it, so that you can pass it down to future generations. As Aristotle teaches us, “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”

Back to the Ethic: Reclaiming Western Values

Bederman, Diane Weber

Religious Studies

Salim Mansur’s The Qur’an Problem and Islamism is about religion and politics, about Muslims and Islam, and the internal debate within the world of Islam about Islamic reform and what it entails. The author discusses the difference between Islam, as a world religion within the Abrahamic tradition of monotheism, and Islamism, as a political ideology and a theology of jihad, and how historically Islam as a religion was turned into the ideology of Islamism, or political Islam. The sacred text of Islam is the Qur’an, and the challenge of any text lies in how it is read, understood, and practiced. The “Qur’an problem” has been right from the outset of Islamic history following the demise of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, in how to read, understand, interpret, and apply the meaning of the Qur’an in the lives of Muslims, and how this “Qur’an problem” remains the source of violence among Muslims at the present time as it has been in the past. It is the contention of the author that any reform of Islam that will assist Muslims reconcile with the modern world of science and democracy, and contribute to peace among them and with the rest of the world, must begin with a positive resolution of the “Qur’an problem.”

The Qur'an Problem and Islamism: Reflections of a Dissident Muslim

Islam

In The Crack-up of the Israeli Left, Dr. Mordechai Nisan delves into the disturbing case of cognitive dissonance, virtual thought-terror, and political disloyalty that emerged and mutated in the leftist camp in Israel. This cumulative deviance became the spring-board for the Oslo Agreement wager, a sham peace between Israel and the Palestinians which proved to be a colossal and bloody political blunder.With academic skill and an extensive familiarity with the Israeli political scene, Nisan dissects the rise of the political Right and the decline of the Left in the corridors of power. Yet, a variety of social and institutional levers of influence remained in the grip of the leftist elites, at once set to delegitimize and hound the Likud party's electoral successes; while promoting the leftist bias, as in the media, against the "settler community" and the nationalist parties on the Right. The left-leaning governments adopted irrational and irresponsible policies for territorial withdrawal, and all pullbacks proved disastrous. Anti-Zionism became a conventional discourse, the democratic choice of the people was thwarted by Supreme Court interventions, Prime Minister Netanyahu was vilified. These were diversions from some of the acute internal problems facing Israel: the extremist anti-Israel Arab citizenry, the arrogant ultra-Orthodox Haredi Jewish sectarians, and the illegal African migrant workers threatening the safety of Jews in southern Tel Aviv neighborhoods.The malaise of the Left, and especially its radical extreme fringes, expressed solidarity with the Arab-Palestinian enemy at home. This filled their ideological vacuum with a purpose. Leftists fired their moralistic arrows against "the occupation." For some, the Israelis were like Nazis. Jewish self-hatred was an old disease that mutated in Israeli Left circles – at the universities, in the media, and in cultural forums.This book sets the historical record straight about who, in Israel and beyond, was loyal to the Jewish state and its hallowed mission; and who strayed dismally from the path. It examines the cultural war at the root of the political battle-lines. It is about telling the unalloyed truth in a radical and explicit fashion. But it also points the way for intra-Jewish reconciliation among all in Israel.The book may scandalize some readers, but offer enlightenment and solace to the embattled nationalists and level-headed Jews and gentiles everywhere. No one will remain complacent to its tone and text in these days of constant political tremors striking the Jewish state.

The Crack-Up of the Israeli Left

History

Nisan, Mordechai

Middle East

In Identity and Prejudice, Farrell Bloch presents a theoretical analysis explaining why individuals are biased against certain race and ethnic groups but in favor of others. Bloch addresses diversity, intersectionality, white privilege, political correctness, identity politics, and self-hate, and applies his theory to contemporary issues including the increased black-white intermarriage rate in the United States, European and American reaction to Muslim immigration, anti-Israel sentiment, the elections of Presidents Obama and Trump, and even the opioid crisis and American holiday observance. 
 Identity and Prejudice also examines ethnic identity. Bloch emphasizes a society’s zeitgeist as a determinant of the intensity of identity and the direction of prejudice. He develops the concept of the Elitist Paradigm, so-called because of its promotion by the relatively well-educated group of journalists and teachers, that has downgraded respect for the West in general and the United States in particular. 
 Identity and Prejudice considers conditions under which prejudicial thought develops into discriminatory action. Discussions of misinterpretation of statistics, the rhetoric of prejudice, cognitive distortions, and varying propensities of groups to protest or to accept maltreatment highlight bias in the perception of both perpetrators and victims of bigotry. Bloch also focuses on individual variation within group attitudes using three examples: white racism toward African Americans, German post-war perspectives of the Holocaust, and Muslim opinions of the terrorist acts committed by their coreligionists. 
 Bloch reviews medieval and modern antisemitism, “the world’s oldest hatred,” stressing factors that can inform a general theory of prejudice and discrimination, especially their mutations over time and reactions of their victims, issues to which the Jewish experience contributes disproportionately. He covers in depth reasons why many people, Jews among them, are receptive to anti-Israel viewpoints. 
 Identity and Prejudice not only will prove an invaluable asset for those studying or assessing prejudice and discrimination, but also will stimulate general readers with its unusual and probing insights into past and current controversies.

Identity and Prejudice

Bloch, Farrell

This is a book, a documentary, about the oldest, most irrational evil: Jew hatred; told through the voices of Biblical and historical figures. Ms. Weber Bederman takes you on a journey through time, sharing the presence of history and our collective memories, beginning where all time begins: The Garden of Eden, where we meet the serpent who has in his mouth the red thread which he takes with him as it connects evil through time. Ms Weber Bederman has chosen to incorporate the Chinese literary device, the red thread, to connect the most evil of humankind, the Amaleks of history. The ones who spread irrational hate.All of the events are historical, factual, and sometimes shared through the stories of the characters: Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jesus, Paul and hitler. One need not be a student of the bible or history to follow the travels of the red thread woven by the serpent from the Garden to the present.The Red Thread of Evil has found yet another home in the hands of another group, the followers of the religion of Allah, who are intent on accomplishing what no other regime or culture had been able to do: to wipe the Jews off the face of the earth. Alarmingly, they have found many in the West who make themselves willing accomplices in the campaign of lies and distortions against Israel and the Jewish people elsewhere.This latter-day incarnation of Evil frequently finds accomplices among young people, uneducated and uninformed and easily taken in by extremist diatribes.That is why it is so important that this small volume with its treasure of information presented in a readable, even gripping narrative is placed into the hands of a wider public, but most especially impressionable youths in universities and high schools. A timely document that will enlighten those who are receptive to thought and the truth.

The Serpent and the Red Thread: The Definitive Biography of Evil

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

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