Analysis
Tuesday, September 19th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Gregory Aftandilian Arab Center Washington, DC, Sept. 13, 2023 “Thousands of Libyan youths closed down highways and burned tires and Israeli flags.” The controversy and severe public backlash surrounding news of a late-August meeting between the Libyan and Israeli foreign ministers in Rome is symptomatic of the fact that Libya’s political class is entirely […]
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Elis Gjevori Middle East Eye, Aug. 29, 2023 ‘I wouldn’t say Israel has gone to great lengths to go up to and beg these actors, it was more the other way around.’ Israeli ties with Libyan political actors are not a secret, in fact they go back at least a decade. But the public and official disclosure […]
Gianluca Pacchiani Times of Israel, Aug. 28, 2023 “One of the ambitions of today’s leaders is to gain access to Israel’s scientific advances and world-renowned technology for irrigation and agriculture, in the way Morocco did.” On Sunday, Israel announced that Foreign Minister Eli Cohen met with his Libyan counterpart, Najla Mangoush, last week in […]
Avi Benlolo National Post, Sept. 1, 2023 “To put this into perspective, in 2021, Libya’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was $42.82 billion USD. In comparison, Israel’s GDP for the same year was $488.5 billion USD. Israel’s economy is 11.4 times larger than Libya’s.” Headlines in the media this week accused Israel of provoking a […]
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, […]
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” […]
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