Analysis
Wednesday, September 27th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Anja Karadeglija National Post, Sept. 26, 2023 “The narrative of Canadians honouring a Nazi as a hero fits into multiple Russian regime narratives that are used to try to legitimize the horrors that Russia is committing in Ukraine.” On Tuesday, a Russian embassy account posted online that Ukraine was issuing stamps with the face […]
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Carson Jerema National Post, Sept. 26, 2023 “… the Liberals, who ridiculously tried to have the honouring of the Nazi soldier stricken from Parliament’s records, can’t seem to understand why anyone cares about this, especially when, in their minds, everyone knows who the real Nazis are — the Conservatives.” Canada is being mocked […]
Ian Austen NY Times, Sept. 26, 2023 “Being trained by SS officers, you can imagine the kind of political indoctrination they got,” he said. Even if their aims were for independence, Mr. Arel said the unit “fought for and were trained by Nazis. There’s no question about it.” The speaker of Canada’s House […]
Frederick Krantz “… he’s leading a relatively poor, corruption-stained country, independent only since 1991, which is nevertheless fighting for its life, with allies who, though generous, are not giving him full support for fear of antagonizing too greatly the very state that threatens his country.” Is there any political or moral alternative to the U.S.-led […]
Tuesday, September 26th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Amir Oren The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, Dec. 2022 “The sins of the Agranat Commission became gradually evident as its bias and secrets were exposed and declassified.” As Israel heads into the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War of 1973, one issue from that momentous war is still debated in Israel. Who was to […]
Edward Kunz Origins, Sept. 25, 2023 “The Nixon administration had to justify supporting Israel in the face of a global economic downturn. The OPEC nations demanded an “evenhanded” American mediation between Israel and its neighbors to end the embargo.” On October 6, 1973, the Yom Kippur War erupted in the Middle East when Anwar Sadat’s Egypt […]
Ofer Aderet Haaretz, Sept. 21, 2023 “Because of the intelligence failure, which essentially wasn’t a system-wide lapse but an individual failure by the Military Intelligence chief, the decision-makers didn’t receive the warning they expected and the IDF didn’t prepare for war in time.” A quick glance at the output of Prof. Uri Bar-Joseph reveals that […]
Herb Keinon Jerusalem Post, Sept. 23, 2023 “This was the trauma of going from such a high after the victory of 1967, to falling so low. It was the trauma of the surprise, and feeling let down by the military, in which people placed so much faith.” Israelis love to beat their chests in self-reproach, […]
Friday, September 22nd 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Baruch Sterman and Judy Taubes Sterman Jewish Review of Books, Fall 2023 “There are uncertainties that are by their very nature unknowable, and there are those that could in theory be known but are not known now. Some things are unknowable; others are merely unknown. In the first case, there is greater room for leniency […]
Herman Kieval Commentary Magazine, October 1968 “The psychoanalyst Theodor Reik contends that even Jews totally removed from any formal ties with Judaism are susceptible to Kol Nidre which, he believes, speaks to the collective Jewish unconscious of its deepest tribal memories.” All vows, renunciations, promises, obligations, oaths, taken from this Day of Atonement till […]
Mosaic Magazine, Sept. 21, 2023 “There is no lack of “Yom Kippur Jews” for whom the day means, if anything at all, going through the motions of soul-searching perfunctorily. If the God of Israel chooses to punish them for their unrepented sins in the year that follows, will they not also have had a yom kippur […]
Ruth R. Wisse WSJ, Sept. 21, 2023 “The Peretz-like skeptic who discredits supernatural belief is won over by the act of human kindness performed anonymously and in secret—by Judaism’s humanistic, humanitarian ethic.” In the Hebrew calendar, the 10-day period beginning with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and ending with Yom Kippur, the year’s holiest […]
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