Analysis
Thursday, September 14th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Rabbi Moshe Hayim Efrayim of Sudilkov and Eitan P. Fishbane Jewish Review of Books, Fall 2019 “The sound of the shofar should—in a very precise theological sense—blast open the listener’s spiritual consciousness. Moreover, listening to the shofar should initiate or reinitiate an attitude of attentive wonder toward the world on the part of the Hasid, […]
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Kate Roozansky Jewish Review of Books, Sept. 12, 2023 “After she gives him up, Hannah sings, “my horn (karni) exults in the Lord,” but her horn is only metaphorical—the boy is gone, there is no ram (1 Sam 2:1). Of course, Hannah visits Samuel at Shilo every year, but this means she also leaves […]
Ernst Simon Commentary Magazine, September 1955 “Today the “Days of Awe” are an embarrassment for most of us because we can give them neither a national, a ritual, nor a purely natural meaning.” The calendar, with its rhythmic division of the year, its beginning and its end, its workdays, rest days and holidays, provides […]
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks The Rabbi Sacks Legacy, September 2017 “The trouble is, of course, that faced with choice, we often make the wrong one.” The Ten Days of Repentance are the holy of holies of Jewish time. They begin this Wednesday evening with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and culminate 10 days later with Yom Kippur, […]
Friday, September 1st 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Samuel J. Abrams Tablet, Aug. 30, 2023 “Today, the preeminence of the Jewish-liberal alliance is threatened not from the right but by the rising power and increasing population of Jewish progressives.” For the past century, American Jews have consistently leaned to the left of most other Americans. Exceptions, like Orthodox Jews or recent immigrants, […]
Luke Tress Times of Israel, Dec. 28, 2022 “Jews fare better in open, liberal environments, and less well in closed, illiberal environments. There is nothing inherent about illiberalism spawning antisemitism, but there is — given Jewish history — something inevitable about it.” In May 2021, as Israel again battled terrorists in the Gaza Strip, […]
David Bernstein Quillette, Oct. 13, 2022 ”At the end of the meeting, one of the organizers drew the black participants into a circle. She preached, “I was blind but now I am Woke.” The participants repeated the chant and loudly proclaimed “Amen.” At this point, I realized that the call to be woke was, in fact, a […]
Naya Lekhet Jerusalem Post, Aug. 13, 2023 “… progressivism has a great response to this point, which in many ways is a contradiction to being progressive and a Zionist: in a hierarchy of marginalization, Jews are near the bottom. We don’t get to be free from persecution at the cost of a higher ranked “persecuted” […]
Thursday, August 31st 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Michael Bennon and Francis Fukuyama Foreign Affairs, Aug. 22, 2023 “The biggest problem by far, however, is debt.” This year marks the tenth anniversary of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative, the largest and most ambitious infrastructure development project in human history. China has lent more than $1 trillion to more than […]
Efraim Inbar Asia Times, Aug, 3, 2023 “It is undesirable to exacerbate tensions with the US over a non-existential issue for the State of Israel.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced plans to travel to China, which has been encouraging such a visit. Netanyahu was responsible for expanding bilateral relations and helped open the hefty […]
Linette Lopez Business Insider, Aug. 29, 2023 “China’s property market makes up about 30% of the country’s GDP, making it the cornerstone of the economy. It’s also a sector where crucial data has been vanishing since the end of last year.” China’s economy is turning into a big black blob. This transformation means that […]
The Japan Times, Aug. 28, 2023 “With the weaker China economy it’s very difficult to be optimistic on the Asian economies and currencies and we’re more concerned about the metal-exposed currencies,” said Magdalena Polan, head of emerging market macro research at PGIM Ltd.” China’s economy was meant to drive a third of global economic […]
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