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Friday, October 7th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Dr. Dafna Langgut The Torah.com, Sept. 23, 2021 “The earliest archaeological evidence for the cultivation of the tree outside Persia is in a garden in Ramat Rahel—nowadays part of west Jerusalem but in that period a Persian administrative center near Jerusalem—in a stratum dated to the 5th/4th century B.C.E.” The Torah mentions four plant species in connection […]
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Dovid Bashevkin Tablet, Sept. 1, 2021 “Instead of staring at the rubble of my Jewish ideals, promises, and commitments with a crestfallen sorrow exhausted to build again from scratch, a sukkah creates a world meant to be rebuilt, reassembled, and reimagined.” Most Jewish holidays are easy to explain to your non-Jewish colleagues. Many, if […]
Jeremy Rosen Algemeiner, Sept. 23, 2021 “ Our rituals … interlink social morality and responsibility with daily rituals, so that we are constantly reminded of our values and goals.” The ancient festival of Sukkot has numerous elements to it. First is the Sukkah. We value our homes and the security of our little […]
Thursday, October 6th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Ron Ben Ishai Ynet News, Oct. 2, 2022 “Any attempt to target the Karish rig would have caused a massive Israeli military response that would have further burdened Lebanon, which is already a failed state, suffering from economic crisis.“ Even at this stage, while the details of the pending agreement to end […]
Tony Badran FDD, September 22, 2022 “If a border agreement is finalized, the Biden administration will have set a terrible precedent by leveraging Hezbollah threats to secure Israeli concessions that enrich and empower a U.S.-designated terrorist organization.” Israel and Lebanon are apparently close to a final agreement delineating their maritime border after […]
Caroline Glick JNS, Oct. 4, 2022 “During his visit to Israel in July, just days after Hezbollah’s drone attacks on Karish, Biden upped U.S. pressure on Israel to conclude a deal with Lebanon and so enable the Hezbollah-controlled Lebanese government to begin raking in billions of dollars in gas revenues from the Qana field. […]
Yoav Limor Israel Hayom, Oct. 3, 2022 “Israel has made a tactical concession for a strategic gain of stability on the northern border.” The emerging maritime agreement with Lebanon is good news. As it is with most deals, it is not perfect, but the alternative – a dangerous escalation on the northern […]
Tuesday, October 4th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Rokhl Kafrissen Tablet, Sept. 30, 2022 “The first recording I heard of this song was this intense, urgent version that had instrumentation like sirens, fast strumming, and the singing sounded so desperate. And the lyrics themselves have felt more and more relevant the older I’ve gotten as antisemitism has been rising around the U.S.” […]
Daniel Gordis Substack, Oct. 2, 2022. “The return of existential vulnerability which the Six Day War had seemed to banish forever, the reversion to the fear and worry that Israelis thought they’d never feel again, left them shattered.” There’s something strange about Israeli TV before Yom Kippur. Before Passover, there is a lot […]
Rabbi Steven Bob TheTorah.com, September 2022 “The whole thing is about Nineveh, which is a non-Israelite nation, and there is no mention of Israel at all. There is nothing like this anywhere in the Prophets!” The biblical prophets generally address Israel and speak to the concerns of Israelites.[1] Even the category of prophecy […]
Joshua Berman Times of Israel, Sept. 12, 2021 “But why do biblical figures seemingly resolve their tensions only non-verbally? Why is there nothing akin to “I’m sorry for what I did,” and “I forgive you”?” It’s that time of year when Jews are called upon to express contrition for wrongs done to another, […]
Sunday, October 2nd 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Jeff Robbins Creators, Sept. 27, 2022 “Instead of acknowledging “Burlington, we’ve got a problem,” UVM’s president responded with a statement at once inane and threatening, warning darkly that the investigation would hurt Jewish students.” The facts at the core of the current antisemitism scandal at the University of Vermont don’t seem especially disputable, and […]
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