Analysis
Friday, August 4th 2023 / Friday, November 3rd 2023
SHABBAT READING The Origins of Tefillin: Dr. Yehudah Cohn, The Torah.com, Aug. 24, 2016 — Why did the practice of tefillin come into being? The first and second paragraphs of the Shema prayer, found in the Torah readings of Va’ethanan and Eikev respectively, may appear to resolve the issue, ostensibly ordaining the practice of head and arm tefillin. I will try to show that […]
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Adrian Karatnycky Foreign Policy, July 11, 2023 “Obama’s Russia policy, including his embrace of the doctrine of Kremlin escalation dominance, has continued to shape U.S. policy during the Trump and Biden administrations.” In an interview with Times Radio in May, Richard Dearlove, the former head of Britain’s MI6, observed that “the policy that [U.S. President Barack] Obama followed […]
Friday, August 4th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
David Samuels Tablet, Aug. 2, 2023 “It was not Obama’s Blackness that bothered her, but that he would not condemn antisemitism.” There is a fascinating passage in Rising Star, David Garrow’s comprehensive biography of Barack Obama’s early years, in which the historian examines Obama’s account in Dreams from My Father of his breakup with his longtime Chicago girlfriend, […]
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.” Barack Obama succeeded. He promised his presidency would fundamentally transform […]
Mark Dubowitz Tablet, Jan. 9, 2023 “Obama’s big Iran play was neither ‘values-driven’ nor purely pragmatic.” The eventual fall of the Islamic Republic of Iran will reveal the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement to have been one of the worst unforced strategic errors in the history of U.S. foreign policy. At home, the Islamic Republic is […]
Thursday, August 3rd 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Dov Lieber WSJ, July 28, 2023 “… right-wing governments that have been in power since the late 1970s have never been able to fully carry out their vision because the Supreme Court has repeatedly struck down major legislative priorities.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition scored a major victory this week when it passed the first part […]
Alex Traiman JNS, July 24, 2023 “… prior to the formation of the current government, several opposition leaders, including Yair Lapid, Avigdor Lieberman and Gideon Sa’ar, have all spoken out in favor of judicial reform.” Amid the largest and most well-funded protest movement in Israel’s history, the democratically elected governing coalition passed the first reform in […]
Shayndi Raice WSJ, July 26, 2023 “Legal scholars say petitioners would have to prove several things in order for the court to strike down the law. Opponents would have to prove that the law undermines the core values of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. They could also try to prove that there were […]
Jeff Seidel Israel Hayom, July 28, 2023 “With a deep-rooted historical and emotional connection to Israel, should American Jews have a say in what happens in the Jewish state? Perhaps they should, given the implications of Israeli policy for Jews worldwide. However, since they don’t directly bear the consequences of these policies, maybe their involvement […]
Tuesday, August 1st 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Everett Piper Washington Times, July 23, 2023 “At this university, we will teach you to be selfless rather than self-centered. We are more interested in you practicing personal forgiveness than political revenge.” This past week, Gallup released a poll showing public confidence in American higher education is plummeting. A national survey conducted in June found that […]
Asaf Romirowsky Jerusalem Post, July 30, 2023 “… the AAA and MESA resolutions, for all their self-proclaimed morality, are the death cries of disciplines devoted to self-destruction.” In a widely predicted move, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) has now joined the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) in adopting a boycott of Israeli universities. It represents a […]
Max Samarov Algemeiner, July 19, 2023 “When Jews raised concerns and asked to be included as well, the districtresponded that, “Jewish Studies and Israeli Studies are not part of the Ethnic Studies discipline.” In June 2023, the Hayward Unified School District (HUSD) in Northern California signed a contract worth over $90,000, with a group called the Liberated […]
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