Analysis
Sunday, September 18th 2022 / Sunday, September 18th 2022
Carol Ungar Tablet, Sept. 16, 2022 Though I didn’t realize it as a kid, there was something odd about my grandparents. The tall, craggy-faced man in the black cloth yarmulke was my grandfather, my mother’s father—with their shared large frames and light eyes there was no mistaking the biological connection. But what about the short […]
Sunday, September 18th 2022
Dara Horn The Atlantic, Sept. 16, 2022 “Is it America’s responsibility to welcome all immigrants, or at least those in obvious danger? This moral question animates the series until it abruptly becomes irrelevant.” Many works of history are much less about the past than they are about the present. People contemplate past events to […]
Rafael Medoff and Monty Penkower Times of Israel, Sept. 18, 2022 “Roosevelt administration officials falsely asserted that the only way to strike the railways or the death camp would be to “divert” planes from distant battle zones, thus undermining the war effort. That claim is repeated in the Burns film as if it […]
By Martin Ostrow [Martin Ostrow has been an award-winning documentary producer, writer and director for public, commercial and cable television for more than 30 years.] As the producer and director of a PBS film on America’s response to the Holocaust some years ago, I was at first delighted to learn that Ken Burns has now […]
Friday, September 16th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Eliza Shapiro and Brian M. Rosenthal NY Times, Sept. 12, 2022 “For many Hasidic people, their schools are succeeding — just not according to the standards set by the outside world. In a community that places religion at the center of daily life, secular education is often viewed as unnecessary, or even distracting.” […]
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Rabbi Avi Shafran Religion News Service, Sept. 13, 2022 “The critical thinking, textual analysis, reading comprehension, argumentation skills; the historical knowledge, the foreign language acquisition, the legal concepts; indeed, the Jewish culture, tradition, and ethical behavior … embedded in these schools’ religious study are genuinely remarkable.” The flyers in the synagogues in my […]
Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, Sept. 12, 2022 “As much as it would be easy to dismiss the story, if test scores and reports from other sources, including from Jews who are deeply worried about the failure of this system to prepare its students for any sort of a productive life other than Torah scholarship—are to be […]
Jay Greene and Jason Bedrick The Daily Signal, Sept. 9, 2022 “Given rising rates of depression, aimlessness, drug abuse, self-mutilation, and suicide among young people in modern society, it’s easy to understand why so many Americans hew much closer to the yeshiva view of education than that of the ruling elites.” The New […]
Thursday, September 15th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Julian E. Barnes and Helene Cooper NY Times, Sept. 10, 2022 “Now is the time for the Ukrainian army to exploit every opportunity they have to degrade and destroy the Russian capacity to fight.” Senior Ukrainian officials stepped up intelligence sharing with their American counterparts over the summer as they began to plan […]
Daniel Michaels and James Marson Real Clear Defense, Sept. 12, 2022 “The breakthrough is being hailed by Western military analysts as a great tactical maneuver. On social media, scenes abounded of ecstatic liberated Ukrainians greeting their troops, who ripped down the trappings of Russia’s monthslong occupation including flags and propaganda posters.” Ukraine seized […]
Walter Russell Mead WSJ, Sept. 12, 2022 “… if the front doesn’t stabilize, or if he feels that public resistance to a general mobilization could endanger the stability of the regime, he might look to more drastic options, such as the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine.” Ukraine scored a stunning victory in the […]
George Friedman Geopolitical Futures, Sept. 13, 2022 “The war is not over, and Ukraine has not won, although recent advances are significant.” During World War II, one needed to say only “the war” for others to know what was being discussed. We have reached the same point with the Russo-Ukrainian war. This is not what […]
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