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The Arab mind between fugitive renewal and correct liberation The road to renewal of Islamic thought Feb 23, 2015 Tarek Osman Major Saudi Islamic institutions condemned the attack on the headquarters of the French satirical newspaper "Charlie Hebdo". The same week, the country's religious authorities charged young blogger Raif Badawi with insulting Islam. Badawi was due to be subjected to a sentence of 1,000 lashes, to be carried out at the rate of fifty lashes every Friday, but the sentence was postponed after widespread international condemnation. A week later, an Egyptian court sentenced a young man to three years in prison for “contempt of religion.” Has the Islamic world relapsed? In the 1930s, the Egyptian author Ismail Adham wrote a book called Why Am I an Atheist? The response was not with a fatwa that sheds his blood, but with another book entitled “Why am I a believer?” The Muslim poet Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi. The region's political systems were gradually shift...

  This image, claiming it was from the war in Ukraine, was borrowed from a 2020 airshow in Moscow. Haifa U Expert: Both Russia & Ukraine Disseminate Misinformation, ‘Recycle’ Old Videos By Jewish Press News Desk Misinformation campaigns through social media and other avenues are lesser-known, yet central aspect of the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, reveals Dr. Yaniv Levitan, an expert in psychological and information warfare at the University of Haifa. “The Russian invasion was accompanied by a huge ‘noise’ of TikTok videos designed to sow demoralization among the Ukrainians,” Levitan says. “Along with genuine videos of the Russian army’s progress, there were videos ‘borrowed’ from other armies and even Star Wars movies. The message promoted here was that the invading Russian army is huge.” According to Levitan, the Russia-Ukraine conflict highlights how information warfare is an integral component of the contemporary landscape of warfare, alongside traditional combat....

  Preparing for Life in Hesder By Josh Hasten The Yeshiva Hesder program in Israel, is a five-year track which provides post high-school young men with the opportunity to continue advanced Torah studies, while also fulfilling their mandatory army service in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Most of the students who are part of the Hesder program carry out their army service in some of the country’s top combat units and are often among the first groups of soldiers called into battle to defend the State and its borders. The students begin their Torah studies for approximately one and a half years, are in the army for one and a half years, and then return to yeshiva for two more years. It is quite common for the students to sign on for additional army service out of a true sense of Zionism and love of country. A major focus of Hesder is to prepare their students for their time in the army, when they are forced outside of their yeshiva “bubble,” and often times encounter challenges on a...

  Secret Twitter program fast-tracks elite users’ takedown demands by aletho By Christina Maas | Reclaim The Net | December 9, 2021 Facebook was recently raked over the coals by a former employee for having policies that give preferential treatment and protect high profile users only, but now it seems this is not such a rare occurrence among social media giants. Take Twitter, for example, which just got exposed for running a secret program designed to give priority to its most prominent users, and protect them from what is perceived as attacks by “trolls and bullies.” Twitter is carrying out its decision, Bloomberg reported, to protect the political elites and celebrities via a program called Project Guardian, that pushes reports about abusive content posted against these users to the front of the moderation queue. Apart from shielding who Twitter picks as the most important people on the platform (reports about the secretive program say that many who are protected by it are unawar...

  The Worst Way to Withdraw From Your Retirement Accounts Have you considered the order you'll withdraw your retirement income? Doing so in the incorrect order could cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars. A 2020 Northwestern Mutual study found that 71% of U.S. adults admit their financial planning needs improvement. However, only 29% of Americans work with a financial advisor.1 The value of working with a financial advisor varies by person and advisors are legally prohibited from promising returns, but research suggests people who work with a financial advisor feel more at ease about their finances and could end up with about 15% more money to spend in retirement.6 A recent Vanguard study found that, on average, a $500K investment would grow to over $3.4 million under the care of an advisor over 25 years, whereas the expected value from self-management would be $1.69 million, or 50% less. In other words, an advisor-managed portfolio would average 8% annualized growth over a 25-...

  Attorney asks Retraction Watch to remove post because client has lost out on opportunities A cancer researcher once involved in a federal research integrity probe has repeatedly been denied funding and other sources of income, according to his attorney, who blamed our coverage of the case for the scientist’s continuing woes and asked us to remove a post.   Our coverage of the work of Sam W. Lee goes back to 2013. But it was our reporting in April 2019 that Lee — once a member of the Harvard faculty — was the subject of an investigation by the U.S. Office of Research Integrity that was the subject of the attorney. ORI has yet to announce a conclusion in its inquiry, which appears to have reached a finding before we posted on the matter. He has at least five retractions — including two that appeared after April 2019 — and two expressions of concern.  One of those expressions of concern was for a 2000 paper in Molecular and Cellular Biology titled “Overexpression of K...

  أخبار ثقافية متنوّعة: ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ جائزة دبروم للإبداع الفني في دورتها الأولى للعام 2021م تعلن مجموعة ألوان للآداب والفنون الإرترية؛ عن بدء إنطلاقة جائزة بإسم رائد الفن التشكيلي في إرتريا، الفنان محمود دبروم .. وذلك في مجالات؛ الرسم/ التصوير الفوتوغرافي/ الجرافيك. الهدف من هذة الجائزة؛ إثراء وتحفيز الموهوبين في مجالات الفن الإبداعي المتنوّع. سيبدأ إستلام الأعمال للدورة الأولى من يوم 8 أغسطس وحتى 15 سبتمبر 2021م. باقي التفاصيل تجدونها في الإعلان أدناه، مع الشروط الخاصة بالمشاركة في جائزة دبروم للإبداع الفني. شروط الجائزة ـــــــــــــــــــــــ /أن تكون جنسية المتسابق/المتسابقة إرترية. 2/أن تستوفى الأعمال المشاركة شروطها الفنيّة. 3/بالنسبة للرسم لا تُقبل الأعمال المرسومة بقلم الرصاص. 4/يُفضّل إستخدام أجهزة حاسوب وكاميرا ذات تقنية عالية في إنجاز الغرافيك وتنزيل الأعمال المراد المشاركة بها. 5/الفئة العمرية مفتوحة 6/لا يحق المشاركة بأكثر من عمل واحد. 7/سيرة ذاتية تتضمن الآتي: (1) الاسم ثلاثياً. (2)مكان وتاريخ الميلاد. (3)مكان الإقامة (4)رقم الهاتف (5)العمل الحال...

  THERE IS NO SIDELINE: IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINIAN STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM 14 MAY 2021 FROM OUR STAFF AND MEMBERS/PRESS RELEASE Share Tweet FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Sonya E Meyerson-Knox | sonya@jvp.org | 929-290-0317 We are witnessing a watershed moment of Palestinian resistance in the face of unspeakable Israeli violence. The rampant brutality against Palestinians by the Israeli military, police and mobs—aided, orchestrated and encouraged by the Israeli government, and funded, supported and defended by the U.S government—is horrifying in its inhumanity. In response, Palestinians across all of Palestine/Israel are rising up. Our grief and rage build with every new atrocity—and from the depths of horror, we honor the steadfastness of Palestinian resistance. Jewish tradition says that to kill a single person is to extinguish a whole world. We say the names of those killed and brutalized. The Israeli government denies the humanity of Palestinians at every turn, even ...