Analysis
Tuesday, August 1st 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Frieda Vizel Tablet, July 17, 2023 “It is an irony of the current debate that liberals who believe in strong social safety nets, who would balk at the assertion that a person should be judged by their wealth or career attainment, and who once celebrated the maxim made famous by Hillary Clinton, ‘It takes a […]
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Monday, July 31st 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Zvi Bar’el Haaretz, July 17, 2023 “Israeli sources leaked information about American intentions to sign a “mini-deal,” or a limited agreement, with Iran, to replace the full nuclear agreement. And lo, shortly after … comes Iran International, known for its cozy relations with several senior Israeli figures, who reports Malley’s suspension, allegedly for mishandling classified […]
J.E. Dyers The Optimistic Conservative, July 28, 2023 “The same pattern overlays nicely on the Biden administration’s move against Malley.” There’s an interesting tale of two official “disappearings” out there, one involving the U.S. and the other in China. I don’t intend to go in-depth on either one here, partly because doing so would cause […]
Hussein Aboubakr Mansour Emet, July 20, 2023 “Unlike what hot-headed and ill-tempered American conservative populists say, they do not hate America, and they do not work for America’s enemies, but they are merely ambivalent to what we think America represents.” It may seem odd that a single mid-level US government bureaucrat has collected a large […]
Lee Smith Tablet, July 23, 2023 “Malley must have shared something really bad with his Iranian associates because otherwise the Tehran Times account makes no sense.” In late June, reports started circulating that White House heavy Robert Malley had been suspended from his job in the Joe Biden administration. That was surprising. Before he was pushed […]
Friday, July 28th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
PJ Grisar The Jewish News of North California, July 19, 2023 “Nolan frames the biography with two inquisitions: Oppenheimer’s infamous AEC hearing in 1954, which saw him lose his security clearance; and Strauss’ 1959 grilling in the Senate, where he was denied confirmation as Eisenhower’s secretary of commerce — largely due to his treatment of […]
Megan McCluskey TIME, July 21, 2023 “Antisemitism impacted him throughout his time studying at Harvard, and later, amid the Nazis’ rise to power in Germany, changed the way he engaged with his Jewishness.” After months of building anticipation, writer-director Christopher Nolan’s new movie Oppenheimer arrived in theaters Friday, kickstarting an opening weekend where it’s expected to collect around $50 […]
David Mikics Tablet, July 25, 2023 “Oppenheimer was too mercurial to ever win the Nobel Prize.” “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” These dreadful words are by now familiar to many. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the A-bomb, said he thought of this line from the Bhagavad Gita during Trinity, the first atomic […]
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 […]
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 […]
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