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Friday, March 14th 2025 / Thursday, March 13th 2025
Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, Mar. 12, 2025 “Whatever the details of what actually happened, the idea that the Jews had turned the tables on those who sought their death and killed a lot of them is horrifying to modern-day leftists.” This is not the first time in history in which some Jews have internalized the […]
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Jenna Weissman Joselit Jewish Review of Books, Mar. 13, 2025 “The former conversos in the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam embraced the Esther story as their own.” Purim—the whole shebang, from the ancient story on which the holiday is based to the contemporary ways in which it’s celebrated—always struck me as raucous and overegged. After seeing the […]
Thursday, March 13th 2025 / Thursday, March 13th 2025
By Allan M. Levine, Ph.D. Purim 2025 Once upon a Purim Eve—not too long ago but certainly before gluten-free pastries took over—the streets of a bustling Jewish neighborhood were alive with merriment, mischief, and the scent of freshly baked, 3-cornered hamentashen (hamentash – singular). Two Jews, rushing home with oversized, triangular hamentashen the size of […]
Thursday, March 13th 2025 / Wednesday, March 12th 2025
Yoni Ben Menachem Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, Mar. 6, 2025 “Israel is redefining its borders in Syria and Lebanon according to its security needs while strengthening ties with its Druze allies in Syria.” On February 24, 2025, protests erupted in southern Syria, with several hundred demonstrators rallying in multiple locations against Prime […]
Rita El Jammal The New Arab, Mar. 12, 2025 “Abi Rashed points out that the total number of disputed points is 13, starting with Ras al-Naqoura at what the UN terms BP1, which is considered to be of great strategic importance.” Developments have emerged on Wednesday on the Lebanon-Israel front regarding arrangements for a ceasefire agreement and the release of prisoners. Alongside […]
Nabih Bulos LA Times, Mar. 11, 2025 “People talk about victory. What victory? All this destruction and death? What was this for?” The procession of coffins was heard long before it came into view, a chorus of ambulance sirens drowning out the crowd assembled at the main square of this devastated village. “Arise, Aitaroun! This […]
Neville Teller Jerusalem Post, Feb. 24, 2025 “Israel’s confidence in the UN’s peacekeeping force (UNIFIL) is at a low ebb after 47 years of its total inability to control Hezbollah.” The unhappy truth is that despite Hezbollah having received a military thrashing at the hands of the IDF, the organization still possesses considerable political power within Lebanon. On […]
Wednesday, March 12th 2025 / Wednesday, March 12th 2025
Elder of Zyon, Mar. 10, 2025 When you read the relevant US codes, the case to deport Mahmoud Khalil is unassailable. U.S. immigration agents arrested Khalil, a Palestinian graduate student who acted as a leader of the Columbia University group that led pro-Hamas protests. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) stated that Khalil was […]
Wednesday, March 12th 2025 / Tuesday, March 11th 2025
Erez Linn Israel Hayom, Mar. 11, 2025 “Mahmoud Khalil, like every other ICE detainee, should be presumed innocent until proven guilty.” Columbia University professor Shai Davidai, a vocal advocate for Israel and critic of campus pro-Palestinian activism, surprisingly came out with reservations about the attempt to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a reported leader of Columbia’s Boycott, […]
Douglas Belkin, Tarini Parti and Alyssa Lukpet WSJ, Mar. 10, 2025 “Citing national security does not give the Trump administration a blank check to violate Americans’ First Amendment rights.” Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil was the first to be arrested by Homeland Security agents for his participation in pro-Palestininan demonstrations on campus, but President Trump vowed he […]
Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, Mar. 10, 2025 “,,, the side in this dispute that seeks to violate free speech and academic freedom were those in the pro-Hamas mobs, egged on by administrations that coddled and enabled them, who were violating the rights of Jewish students and faculty.” At a time when partisanship influences virtually every […]
Tuesday, March 11th 2025 / Tuesday, March 11th 2025
Aslı Aydıntaşbaş European Council on Foreign Relations, Feb. 6, 2025 “The question of moderation and tolerance in Syria is tied to whether the country’s new rulers are still jihadists at heart.” Unnoticed by the outside world, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan in October hinted at “good news” soon to come from Syria. Within a few […]
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