Analysis
Friday, September 30th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
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 […]
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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 […]
Ernst Simon Commentary, September 1955 “And so, Judaism begins every new year with this victory of the mother over the institution and its soul-deaf representatives. Hagar the Egyptian, the mother of Ishmael, the ancestor of the Arabs, and Hannah, the mother of the prophet Samuel, join hands as sisters in maternal suffering and maternal […]
Friday, September 23rd 2022 / Friday, September 23rd 2022
Judy Lash Belint JNS, Sept. 21, 2022 “On any given night between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, many of Israel’s most popular singers may be found in sold-out venues all over the country, reviving the ancient melodies from all corners of the Jewish world.” Anyone venturing into the shuk or even a local supermarket […]
Dov Lerner Mosaic Magazine, Sept. 27, 2019 “Recognition of human ineloquence in the presence of divine omnipotence is no moral failing and no source of shame.” Jewish civilization, in broad terms, is what anthropologists refer to as a text culture. Its religious rituals center on sacred writings, on the recital and interpretation of those […]
Thursday, September 22nd 2022 / Thursday, September 22nd 2022
Margot Cleveland The Federalist, Sept. 15, 2022 “While a jury acquitted Sussmann of the charged offense, the prosecution of the former Clinton campaign lawyer revealed several previously unknown details related to the Russia collusion hoax, including Sussmann’s peddling of a second Trump-Russia connection to the CIA.” A whitepaper obtained first by The Federalist suggests Special Counsel […]
J.E. Dyer The Optimistic Conservative, Sept. 13, 2022 “I don’t find it credible that Dolan had a paper trail a mile long in the Steele dossier aspect of Russiagate, and yet somehow the FBI neglected to discover the paper trail and bring Dolan in for a fuller accounting.” On 2 September 2022, Special Counsel […]
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