Analysis
Monday, April 3rd 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Matt Taibbi, Racket News, Mar. 30, 2023 Years ago, when I first began to have doubts about the Trump-Russia story, I struggled to come up with a word to articulate my suspicions. If the story was wrong, and Trump wasn’t a Russian spy, there wasn’t a word for what was being perpetrated. This was a […]
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Monday, April 3rd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Jacob Siegel, Tablet, Mar. 28, 2023 PROLOGUE: THE INFORMATION WAR In 1950, Sen. Joseph McCarthy claimed that he had proof of a communist spy ring operating inside the government. Overnight, the explosive accusations blew up in the national press, but the details kept changing. Initially, McCarthy said he had a list with the names of […]
Maximiliana Wynne, Modern War Institute, Feb. 3, 2023 If you spend any time on social media, listen to podcasts, or generally pay attention to the news, chances are you’ve heard of ChatGPT. The chatbot, launched by OpenAI in November, can write code, draft business proposals, pass exams, and generate guides on making Molotov cocktails. It […]
Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher,WSJ, Feb. 24, 2023 A new technology bids to transform the human cognitive process as it has not been shaken up since the invention of printing. The technology that printed the Gutenberg Bible in 1455 made abstract human thought communicable generally and rapidly. But new technology today reverses that process. Whereas the […]
Friday, March 31st 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Howard Jacobson Sapir Journal, Vol. 8, Winter 2023 “… it is enough that the covenant enjoins a disinterested seriousness of purpose on the Jewish people and that Jewish artists and writers have found in it a spur for work of the highest order.” The decline and fall of everything is our daily dread, we are […]
Hannah Rubin Tablet, Mar. 20, 2023 “In the traditional world Bais Yaakov inhabits, romantic love is considered sacred and deeply private, so productions eschew it wholesale. Most don’t contain so much as a shidduch date.” A cart wrapped in wood contact paper trundles on stage, pushed by a figure in an overcoat and downy beard. Emblazoned on […]
Jacob Savage Tablet, Feb. 28, 2023 “… fancying ourselves to be high caste members of a beneficent elite, we pretend not to notice that “diversity, equity, and inclusion” is a cudgel used to exclude certain groups of Americans, including Asians and Jews.” Suddenly, everywhere you look, the Jews are disappearing. You feel it like a […]
Ruth R. Wisse Mosaic Magazine, June 16, 2022 “… where Judaism is targeted by political correctness, I am affirming the right of Jews to maintain their Judaism.” From the Hebrew Bible through the Netanyahu family, the survival and flourishing of Jewish civilization has depended on what could be called a series of profiles in […]
Thursday, March 30th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
By Moshe Phillips As we approach the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising there can be no doubt that the mainstream media will cover the occasion. For example, CNN is asking “Was your family affected by the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943? Leave CNN a voicemail” (source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/was-your-family-affected-by-the-warsaw-ghetto-uprising-in-1943-leave-cnn-a-voicemail/ar-AA18R4rv). Whatever CNN and other news outlets may produce this year, […]
Elliot Abrams Council on Foreign Relations, Mar. 16, 2023 “As courts consider whether to override decisions of elected officials, they must also rely on some standard by which to judge those actions. Where there is a written constitution, it provides the standard.” Israel’s current—and deeply divisive—debate over changes in the role of its Supreme […]
Daniel J. Arbess WSJ, Mar. 17, 2023 “Israel could consider reforming the structure of its constitution from the British parliamentary mode to an American-style separation of powers that would be adapted for Israel’s unique needs.” Street demonstrations and political drama over Israel’s judicial-reform debate have some people wondering whether the end of Israeli democracy is […]
Michael Starr Jerusalem Post, Feb. 3, 2023 “What we are seeing now is part of the backlash to that because a lot of the people now would say the inland Supreme Court became too active,” explained Gross. “And [they would say] ‘we want to kind of bring the power back to the people rather than […]
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