Analysis
Monday, September 12th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
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, […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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