Analysis
Wednesday, October 30th 2024
Elizabeth Samson Middle East Forum, Oct. 11, 2024 “The motivation for the Secretary-General’s refusal to waive immunity is likely a desire to protect the U.N. from the exposure of a court investigation. The organization cannot plead ignorance.” The United Nations has refused to waive immunity from prosecution for its subsidiary, the United Nations Relief […]
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Tuesday, October 29th 2024
Bret Stephens Commentary, November 2024 “Broadly speaking, American Jews, at least outside of the Orthodox world, opted not just for assimilation. Too often, they went for self-erasure.” The prose style of Bernard-Henri Lévy, France’s most recognizable public intellectual, is not to everyone’s taste. He is prone to grandiloquence, self-reference, and metaphor salads. In the margins […]
Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, Oct. 11, 2024 “… many American Jews have been happily swimming in the same cultural sea of hostility towards Zionism, and until recently, never suspected that its venom could drown them.” On Yom Kippur, there will, as there is every year, be a lot of collective breast-beating in the American Jewish community […]
Abigail Pogrebin Tablet, Oct. 28, 2024 “While I would say I’m enthusiastic, there is a caveat, and it does have to do with a post-10/7 world where Israel is an important issue to me in a way it simply wasn’t beforehand.” According to polls, Kamala Harris is set to receive the lion’s share of […]
Abigail Pogrebin Tablet, Oct. 28, 2024 “Antisemitism on Oct. 7 was a wake-up call for me to reevaluate the entire left’s policy on everything.” Please raise your hand. How many of you feel pretty enthusiastic—as opposed to ambivalent—about voting for your candidate, Donald Trump? I see six of you: Brent, Marianne, Linda, Pia, Alanna, […]
Monday, October 28th 2024
Lazar Berman Jerusalem Post, Oct. 27, 2024 “The Israeli strike may have been somewhat limited in terms of the actual damage it caused, but the message to frail Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is what matters: Israel can reach strategic sites in Iran and can hit what it wants, and […]
Melanie Phillips Substack, Oct. 27, 2024 “Israel’s strategic aim, he said, had changed. It would no longer tolerate Iranian aggression either directly or through its proxies and would now hold the Iranian regime itself accountable.” This morning, people have been trying to work out the significance of the Israeli strikes on Iran that […]
Ron Ben-Yishai Ynet News, Oct. 26, 2024 “Last night’s attack on Iran represents a strategic and military masterpiece.” The Iranian leadership, spearheaded by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, is currently grappling with a complex dilemma over whether and how to respond to last night’s Israeli airstrikes. This challenge arises from the need to balance three critical […]
Danny Zaken Israel Hayom, Oct. 22, 2024 “The US Treasury dropped a bombshell – fresh sanctions targeting Iran’s oil sector, but with a twist.” Let me share a tidbit in Persian – “An eqtesad ahmaqaneh ast.” It’s their way of saying, “It’s the economy, stupid” – that game-changing phrase from Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential victory. Today, […]
Wednesday, October 23rd 2024
Matti Wagner Times of Israel, Oct. 23, 2024 “This year, with so many men in reserve service, who will take the small children on their shoulders and dance with them?”” On the first anniversary of the most deadly attack on Jews since the Holocaust, rabbis of communities throughout Israel are grappling with how to […]
Doron Kornbluth Jerusalem Post, Oct. 22, 2024 “… simcha is related to who I am, who I can be, and who I am connected to.” I’ve always looked forward to Simchat Torah. This year? Not so much. You can guess why. The question is: How can we be happy this Simchat Torah? In a way, […]
Prof. James A. Diamond The Torah.com, Oct. 21, 2016 “Questions fuel all Jewish biblical interpretation.” “After [Abraham] was weaned, while still an infant, his mind began to reflect. By day and night, he was thinking and wondering, “How is it possible that this sphere should continuously be guiding the world and have no one […]
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