Analysis
Friday, July 28th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Andy Kifer Smithsonian Magazine, July 18, 2023 “I don’t know how he had acquired this facility for handling people. Those who knew him well were really surprised.” Since the end of World War II, historians and artists alike have been fascinated by the brilliant, enigmatic J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who led the Manhattan Project […]
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Thursday, July 27th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Gil Troy JNS, Aug. 7, 2022 “If a people possesses something old and profound, which can educate man and train him for his future tasks, is it truly revolutionary to despise it and become estranged from it?” It’s become an annual modern ritual. Every summer, before Tisha B’Av, the ninth of the Hebrew month […]
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks The Rabbi Sacks Legacy, July 28, 2014 “Because Jews throughout history have recognised tyranny for what it is, and have refused to be intimidated by power, threat, terror and fear. Somehow, in the most dangerous region of the world, Israel has created a society of freedom and order: a free press, […]
Rabbi Eliyahu Fink Orthodox Union, Aug. 5, 2014 “The simple version of the Roman conquest of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. is a story of superior Roman forces overwhelming a puny Jewish army. Our defeat was inevitable. But the siege and subsequent fall of Jerusalem to the Roman legions were far more dramatic and much more […]
Mark Raven Commentary Magazine, August 1951 “It was the Jew’s burden—and still is—to turn over in his soul an insoluble problem of history: how could one people above all others become heir to such sorrow?” This August 12th will be celebrated as Tisha B’av—the ninth day of the Jewish month of Av—the second most […]
Tuesday, July 25th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Michael Ginsberg American Greatness, July 21, 2023 “What does [Obama] offer? First and foremost: his face. Think of it as the most effective potential re-branding of the United States since Reagan. Such a re-branding is not trivial – it’s central to an effective war strategy …” He promised his presidency would fundamentally transform America. […]
Bob Goldberg Jewish Journal, Mar. 22, 2023 “The woke army successfully identified Israel as the leading cause of oppression worldwide and enshrined anti-Zionists as the core of CRT doctrine and activity.” To understand why undermining Israel is central to the woke agenda, read “The Woke Army: The Red-Green Alliance That is Destroying America’s Freedom,” a recently […]
John Lloyd Quillette, May 27, 2023 “New Right policies are substantially the same wherever they attract support—opposition to the EU, distrust of globalisation and corporations, dislike of mass and illegal immigration, support for families and local communities, aversion to the “woke” phenomenon and to cancel culture (at least when it is employed against the […]
Matt Johnson Quillette, July 27, 2023 “The religious impulse may be ineradicable, but that doesn’t mean the level of overall religious commitment in society is stable.” Remember “New Atheism”? In the mid-to-late aughts, public debates over religion suddenly expanded in scope and intensity. University auditoria, theaters, and even churches drew capacity crowds for public […]
Monday, July 24th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Israel Kasnett JNS, July 17, 2023 “… the Supreme Court has invented new legal grounds to review the reasonableness of government actions and even to disqualify government appointments.” Israel’s Supreme Court is either under attack or undergoing necessary reform, depending on who you ask. While there is talk of shelving the larger judicial reform package […]
Michael Starr Jerusalem Post, July 23, 2023 “… when the reform acts as a trigger for all the other aspects of the government’s agenda, it’s difficult to address the actual reform debate.” The protests against the government’s judicial reform have been confusing from the beginning, with several complicated legal provisions at the crux of the debate. […]
Ruth Marks Eglash Jewish Insider, July 19, 2023 “With little to no constructive dialogue between supporters and opponents of the Netanyahu government’s designs for the judiciary, it’s difficult to identify any immediate path to ending this zero-sum game, which will continue to threaten Israel’s internal cohesion and cast the issue of America’s friendship for […]
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