Analysis
Friday, September 16th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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