Analysis
Sunday, October 2nd 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Kenneth L. Marcus The Hill, Sept. 1, 2022 “Lhamon’s message is important, and not only to reassure the Jewish community that she gets the problem. It is especially important for its true audience, which is the higher education community.” Days ago, the U.S. Education Department’s civil rights office, OCR, resolved a major anti-Semitism case at Kyrene School […]
Tagged
Nate Hoffman National Review, Sept. 29, 2022 “It turns out that, when elite law schools like Yale teach their students that there are no consequences to their intolerance and illiberalism, the message sticks with them.” Judge James C. Ho of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit announced Thursday that he […]
Kenneth L. Marcus Jewish Journal, Sept. 28, 2022 “… the exclusionary bylaws operate like racially restrictive covenants, precluding minority participation into perpetuity.” If it wasn’t so frightening, one might be able to recognize the irony in the sight of campus progressives trying so hard to signal progressive virtue that they fall victim […]
Friday, September 30th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Karim Sadjadpour Washington Post, Sept. 24, 2022 “The unrest triggered by Amini’s death should push the Biden administration to reassess its Iran strategy.” The death in Iran of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini — who was reportedly brutally beaten after she was detained by the “morality police” for showing too much hair — has triggered nationwide protests, […]
Benoit Faucan and Michael Amon WSJ, Sept. 28, 2022 “Growing up in Iran, it’s impossible to know someone, a young woman who has not been arrested because of allegedly wearing her hijab improperly.” The protests that have erupted across Iran in the past two weeks are rooted in anger at the country’s morality police, an unpopular […]
David E. Sanger NY Times, Sept 26, 2022 “… there were hints that the administration was looking for ways to get Starlink, in particular, into the hands of protesters.” The last time waves of protests swept Iran, after the killing of a young woman who was standing on the sidelines of an anti-government rally […]
Benni Avni The New York Sun, Sept. 27, 2022 “It reinforces the regime’s narrative that the protest is foreign-controlled to distract and deflect [but]the protesters see right through it.” Unable to quell a revolution sparked by the killing of a 22-year old Kurdish-Iranian woman for violating Hijab rules, Tehran is attacking Kurds at home and […]
Thursday, September 29th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Ekaterina Zolotova Financial Mirror, Sept. 24, 2022 “This leaves Europe with two options: muddle through, or compromise with Russia. Already, there are indications that Europe is investigating the latter.” It’s autumn in Europe, which for European farmers means it’s time to start placing orders for fertilizer for the spring. Of course, prices have been much […]
Drew Hinshaw WSJ, Sept. 29, 2022 “The statement marks a significant ratcheting up of tensions between Russia and the West as Russian President Vladimir Putin pushes ahead with plans to annex occupied parts of eastern Ukraine.” NATO said that a series of leaks on the Nord Stream pipelines between Russia and Europe were the result of […]
Stephen Bryen and Shoshana Bryen Asia Times, Sept. 28, 2022 “Could the US have sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines to remove President Vladimir Putin’s leverage over Europe this winter?” The US has long opposed NATO’s (especially Germany’s) dependence on Russian, formerly Soviet, natural gas. The United States, in fact, used export controls to block the […]
BBC, Sept. 5, 2022 “The market is so tight at the moment that any disruption in supply causes more hikes in the price of gas. This could cause slowdowns in European economies and accelerate the route towards recession.” What is Nord Stream 1 and how much gas does it supply? The Nord […]
Friday, September 23rd 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Rabbi Shawn Ruby The Torah.com, Sept. 2022 “The term zichron teruah in Leviticus emphasizes how, on this day, Israel wants to make enough noise to get God’s attention, and remind God of the covenant with Israel.” In the Torah, the festival we call Rosh Hashanah (New Year) falls out on the first day of the seventh […]
Please select all the ways you would like to hear from the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research:
We use Mailchimp as our marketing platform. By clicking below to subscribe, you acknowledge that your information will be transferred to Mailchimp for processing. Learn more about Mailchimp's privacy practices.
