Analysis
Tuesday, September 13th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Amy Spiro Times of Israel, Sept. 8, 2022 “In 2000, the queen inaugurated Britain’s first permanent memorial to the Holocaust,” Queen Elizabeth II, who sat on the throne for 70 years until her death on Thursday, enjoyed a long and warm relationship with the British Jewish community, from the start of her reign in 1952 through […]
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Jeremy Havardi JTA, Sept. 9, 2022 “British Jews are feeling the loss of this remarkable monarch as much as their gentile counterparts.” The death 0f Queen Elizabeth II after 70 years on the throne is a devastating loss for Britain, the Commonwealth and the free world. It is hard to overstate the sense […]
David P. Goldman PJ Media, Sept. 8, 2022 “Democracy without an overarching sense of the sacred would be a nightmare.” Americans rarely grasp the extent to which the British people invested their monarch with a sense of sanctity. Elizabeth II personified the “mystic chords of memory” that bind a country together with a national […]
Itamar Sharon and TOI Staff Times of Israel, Sept. 10, 2022 “The world must “be fearless in confronting falsehoods and resolute in resisting words and acts of violence. We must tend the earth of our societies so that the seeds of division cannot take root and grow.” With the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, […]
Monday, September 12th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Caitlyn Kim NPR, Sept. 6, 2022 “By making it about scoring political points rather than trying to fix a broken system, they only perpetuated a controversy that was further tearing apart the county.” Benghazi. It’s become a political Rorschach test for the country. The Right sees it as everything wrong with Democratic foreign policy or […]
Daniel N. Hoffman Washington Times, Sept. 8, 2022 “… outgunned and outmanned while facing large arms fire and heavy smoke from the fire, the CIA team was forced to evacuate the remaining 30 Americans and return to the CIA Base.” This month, the CIA and State Department will honor and remember four American heroes — Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, […]
Julian Routh Pittsburgh Post, Sept. 11, 2022 “That space is sacred for the families, who remember it as the first meeting place for an entire community of interconnected lives, upended by the tragedy on Sept. 11.” With hundreds behind them to commemorate the sacrifices of their fallen family members more than two […]
Alexander Riley The American Mind, Sept. 9, 2022 “In the moment of the country’s greatest tragedy in at least a half century, they leapt up not to defend but to denounce it. Twenty-one years later, the divide has only widened and deepened.” I have written a lot about the terrorist attacks of September 11, […]
Friday, September 9th 2022 / Friday, September 9th 2022
Liel Leibowitz Tablet, Sept. 7, 2022 Sometime soon, The New York Times is slated to publish its expose on the state of Hasidic education in New York. Several members of the community who were contacted by the Times expressed their grave concerns to Tablet about the paper’s biases and the likelihood, or lack thereof, that the Times will give Hasidic […]
Zvika Klein Jerusalem Post, Apr. 20, 2022 “The issue of streams in Judaism isn’t relevant anymore,” Yeshiva University president Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman told me in an interview in a Jerusalem hotel lobby, days before Passover. Berman informed me that the terms I’ve been using aren’t relevant to modern Jewish life in the Diaspora. “I […]
Ruth R. Wisse Mosaic Magazine, Aug. 8, 2022 I did not think anything in American Jewish life could surprise me—until an Upper East Side neighbor said to me recently that his daughter, who had moved to Israel a dozen years ago, “was the first to see the handwriting on the wall.” “What do you […]
Friday, September 9th 2022
Rabbi Yitz Greenberg Sapir Journal, Vol. 1, Spring 2021 There is no one “kosher” Jewish approach to social justice, just as there is no single authorized Jewish response to any of the challenges we humans encounter and create for ourselves. Jewish texts contain a multitude of opinions, enough to support the presuppositions and political […]
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