SHABBAT READING
The Exodus Is Not Really about Israel Leaving Egypt: Prof. Safwat Marzouk, The Torah.com, Jan. 29, 2025 — Is the ultimate goal of the exodus to bring the Israelites to Canaan, or is it for them to worship YHWH in the wilderness?[1] When YHWH first commissions Moses to return to Egypt, He states:
שׁמות ג:ח וָאֵרֵד לְהַצִּילוֹ מִיַּד מִצְרַיִם וּלְהַעֲלֹתוֹ מִן הָאָרֶץ הַהִוא אֶל אֶרֶץ טוֹבָה וּרְחָבָה אֶל אֶרֶץ זָבַת חָלָב וּדְבָשׁ אֶל מְקוֹם הַכְּנַעֲנִי וְהַחִתִּי וְהָאֱמֹרִי וְהַפְּרִזִּי וְהַחִוִּי וְהַיְבוּסִי.
Exod 3:8 “I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians and to bring them out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey, the region of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.”[2]
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SIGNIFICANTLY MISSING
Don’t Mention the Jews: Nicole Lambert, Spiked, Jan. 28, 2025 — There was certainly no shortage of commemorations of Holocaust Memorial Day on Monday.
A GOOD START
WATCH: Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon Announces Country Will Cease Cooperation with UNRWA: Fox News, Jan. 29, 2025
WATCH: “Israel Has Made Public Irrefutable Evidence – UNRWA Is Riddled with Hamas Operatives.”: AIJAC, Jan. 29, 2025 — “Israel has made public irrefutable evidence – UNRWA is riddled with Hamas operatives.” Israeli Government spokesperson David Mencer.
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New Investigation Exposes UN Agency’s Shocking Ties to Terror Groups, UNWatch, Jan. 7, 2025
Democrats Betrayed Israel and US Interests on the ICC: Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS, Jan. 29, 2025
Hamas and the Red Cross: Gerald Steinberg, Quillette, Jan. 29, 2025
Fifty Years of Using International Law Against Israel: A Social Justice Narrative Takeover: Tirza Short, Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, Jan. 29, 2025
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Remarks by Ambassador Dorothy Shea, Chargé d ’Affairs ad interim, at a UN Security Council Briefing on the Situation in the Middle East: Ambassador Dorothy Shea, United States Mission to the United Nations, Jan. 28, 2025 — … The United States is strongly committed to implementing the ceasefire agreement, so that the hostages can return home and the people of Gaza can look toward a brighter future under new leadership.
UN Chief Demands Israel ‘Retract’ Order for UNRWA to Quit Jerusalem: AFP – Agence France Presse, Barron’s, Jan 28, 2025 — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has demanded that Israel retract its order for the UN’s Palestinian relief agency UNRWA to leave Jerusalem as it clamps down on the body’s presence in Israel.
The Return of Anti-Jewish Travel Bans: Seth Mandel, Commentary, Jan. 29, 2025 — To Chuck Schumer news is good news. Although the Democratic Senate leader is now in the minority, he still retains enough power to prevent, on behalf of an increasingly anti-Israel caucus, accountability for those participating in the current globalized intifada.
Schumer Protects the International Criminal Court: Editorial Board, WSJ, Jan. 30, 2025 — The International Criminal Court (ICC) is a rogue operation that equates Israel with Hamas and has threatened to charge Americans with war crimes for fighting terrorists.