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Friday, September 9th 2022 / Friday, September 9th 2022
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 […]
This afternoon, we learned with a sad heart of the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. What we always knew would come somehow actually came to many of us as a surprise and, despite the over-prepared protocol, we collectively felt the weight of that loss. Many words were issued to commemorate The Queen.Words such […]
Thursday, September 8th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Elis Gjevori Middle East Eye, Sept. 5, 2022 “… in a move that would reverse decades of British policy on Israel-Palestine, Truss said she would “review” the relocation of the country’s Israel embassy to Jerusalem.” The British Conservative Party selected Liz Truss as its new leader, and the United Kingdom‘s next prime minister, on Monday. Truss, who is currently […]
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John Bolton WSJ, Sept. 6, 2022 “As in America, bureaucratic resisters in key departments, such as Treasury and the Foreign Office, resist even acknowledging the struggle with China, but Ms. Truss has no illusions.” Frissons of disapproval shook the State Department last year when British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss first met Secretary of State Antony Blinken. She […]
David Rose The Jewish Chronicle, Aug. 11, 2022 “He was the best boss I ever had and a very big influence on me. I remember that at work it was great during the winter because he would leave early for Shabbat every Friday. In the summer he was there until much later. That was […]
Toby Greene Fathom Journal, September 2022 “In Truss’s mental map of the world, in which decent, honest, sovereign free-trading nations are pitted against aggressive authoritarians, Israel sits firmly in the former category.” INTRODUCTION: PRIME MINISTER TRUSS IN A DANGEROUS WORLD Liz Truss enters Number 10 at a time of massive policy challenges. Whilst the […]
Tuesday, September 6th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Nicole Ault and Megan Keller WSJ, Sept. 2, 2022 “These tenets aren’t presented as abstract notions for faculty to consider, but ideas they’re meant to apply.” Randi Weingarten left no room for doubt. “Critical race theory is not taught in elementary schools or high schools,” the American Federation of Teachers president said in a speech last year. Even […]
Phoebe Maltz Bovy Common Sense with Bari Weiss, Sept. 4, 2022 “While the specific term cancel culture wasn’t used, the concept existed and was indeed driving cultural concerns.” At a church book sale in my Toronto neighborhood, I found The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook, a bestseller by Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf first published 30 years […]
Jonathan Kay Quillette, Sept. 2, 2022 “Canadian media is now full of earnest denunciations of an idea that MacKenzie describes as having been “jokingly created during a livestream.” Last month, Pierre Poilievre, the populist front-runner in the race to become leader of Canada’s federal Conservative party, was photographed shaking hands with Jeremy MacKenzie, a former soldier facing […]
Betsy McCaughey NY Post, Aug. 30, 2022 “Critical race theory has no place in the health-care profession.” Unless you’re a person of color or a favored minority, brace yourself to be treated unfairly by the Biden administration. President Joe Biden is pushing racial equity — which is very different from equal treatment regardless of race. […]
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