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Daily Briefing: Can Lebanon Disarm Hezbollah?

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SHABBAT READING: The Building Blocks of Biblical Interpretations: Text, Lexicon, and Grammar:  Prof. Marc Zvi Brettler, The Torah.com, Aug 3, 2015 — Much of TheTorah.com focuses on big issues, such as the composition and the historical background of biblical texts.  But it is only possible to explore those issues once we know what the biblical […]

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Hizbullah is Cornered and Struggling to Admit Defeat

  Yoni Ben Menachem Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, Aug. 10, 2025 “Hizbullah is buying time to chip away at the government’s disarmament decision.” Hizbullah is striving to preserve its power as the Lebanese government moves to disarm it, calibrating pressure while avoiding direct confrontation with civilians or the army. Israeli security sources […]

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Lebanon's Aoun becomes president after 2-year vacancy | SOURCE: FMT

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Lebanon Takes a First Step Toward Reclaiming Its Sovereignty

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  Edward Gabriel The Hill, Aug. 13, 2025 “By launching this process, Lebanon’s leaders have sent a clear message to their citizens and to the world: They are committed to national unity, the rule of law and regional stability.” Last week, the Lebanese government made a historic move toward restoring full authority over its territory […]

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Hezbollah proclaims 'victory' over Israel SOURCE: FMT

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Exclusive: US Plan Sees Hezbollah Disarmed by Year-End, Israeli Withdrawal

  Laila Bassam Reuters, Aug. 7, 2025 “Iran’s Foreign minister Abbas Araghchi told Iranian state TV on Wednesday that this was not the first time attempts have been made to disarm the Iran-backed group, adding that the final decision rests with the group itself.” The United States has presented Lebanon with a proposal for disarming […]

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Hezbollah fighters at a ceremony.(Wikipedia)

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After the Failed Ceasefire with Lebanon, What’s Next?

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  Jacques Neriah Israel Today, July 27, 2025 “Buoyed by a landslide victory in municipal elections, Hezbollah continued to defy both the Lebanese government and the US.” The recent events in Syria—specifically the massacre carried out against the Druze community in Sweida and the subsequent flare-up between Israel and Syria—have overshadowed the tectonic changes unfolding in […]

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Netanyahu s’adresse à la presse, plans d’occupation de la ville de Gaza approuvés et les Nations-Unies changent leur définition de famine pour l’appliquer à Gaza

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« Si nous avions voulu commettre un génocide, ça nous aurait pris un après-midi » Benyamin Netanyahu, Premier ministre d’Israël  Netanyahu : Israël ne cherche pas à occuper Gaza, mais à « la libérer du Hamas »: Nava Freiberg et Times of Israel Staff, 10 août 2025 Benjamin Netanyahou à i24NEWS : “La guerre s’achèvera là où […]

Protests in and around Columbia University in support of Palestine and against Israeli occupation. A side gate by the bookstore where the crowd is—inside and out.- Wikipedia

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Daily Briefing: ANTISEMITISM INVADES MENTAL HEALTH SPACES: INVALIDATING THE VICTIM

PRACTICALLY IGNORED WATCH:  ‘It’s a Hate Crime’: Jewish Father Targeted In Montreal Attack, Brother-In-Law Speaks Out:  Alexandra Lavoie, Rebel News, Aug. 12, 2025 — A brutal attack on a father in front of his three children occurred last week in Montreal. Video of the assault went viral online and several politicians, including Premier François Legault, Prime […]

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‘Decolonizing Therapy’ and the Erasure of Jewish Identity in Mental Health

Mathilda Heller Jerusalem Post, July 29, 2025 “… groups such as the Brandeis Center and Physicians Against Antisemitism highlight the fact that Decolonizing Therapy identifies Zionism as a root cause of mental illness.” Antisemitism is becoming increasingly more prevalent within therapy and therapeutic spaces. The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law recently wrote […]

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Analysis

Your Suffering Doesn’t Matter’: Harvard Psychologist Tackles Jews’ ‘Traumatic Invalidation’

Dave Gordon National Post, Aug. 10, 2025 “Traumatic invalidation can cause mental health issues in the short term and long term.” After the Hamas-led terror attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, Dr. Miri Bar-Halpern, a psychology instructor at Harvard Medical School, wrote on an Israeli Facebook group offering therapy resources to those affected by the attacks. […]

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Bob Vylan He chanted anti-Israel slogans at the legendary English festival during a BBC live broadcast. : SOURCE: Heute.at

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Post-Identity Antisemitism: The New Obsession with Israel

Ariel Harkman The American Spectator, July 15, 2025 “This is not old hatred in new clothes. It’s something different — Post-Identity Antisemitism.” In October 2023, as Hamas live-streamed the mass murder and abduction of Israeli civilians, anti-Israel protests erupted across Western capitals within hours. In New York, London, Sydney, and Paris, rallies cheered “resistance” even as footage […]

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It Is Everywhere

Neal B. Freeman National Review, Aug. 12, 2025 “I don’t know whether it’s that the ADL has stopped issuing screechy alarms or that I have stopped paying any attention to them. Whichever the case, the hour is late. The hardened reality is that antisemitism is everywhere now and the obligation falls to us to confront it.” I […]

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Antisemitism-Lite” in Contemporary Germany Licence details Creator: Montecruz Foto Wikipedia

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Daily Briefing: ANTISEMITISM SURGES IN FRANCE

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  “… the far left has fully embraced the Palestinian cause, while Marine Le Pen’s previously antisemitic far-right party has realigned itself as pro-Israel. These political reversals reflect not a newfound moral clarity but rather a reshuffling of ideological interests. French Jews, caught between both extremes, face rising hostility from both ideological camps.” — Alish […]

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