Analysis
Monday, May 2nd 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Alan Rappeport NY Times, Apr. 8, 2022 “Within the Treasury Department, officials have been in a debate about how far to push the sanctions without creating unintended consequences that would rattle the financial system and inflame inflation, which is soaring across much of the world.” When Russia imposed retaliatory sanctions on top American officials last month, its […]
Patricia Kowsmann WSJ, Apr. 8, 2022 “Europe’s key weakness is a lack of geopolitical or risk perspective on energy policy, at national or at EU level.” Waves of Western sanctions targeting Russian banks are hampering the country’s ability to conduct business, but efforts continue to be constrained by Europe’s reliance on Russian oil and gas. The […]
Paul Hannon and Eric Sylvers WSJ, Apr. 12, 2022 “Europe’s key weakness is a lack of geopolitical or risk perspective on energy policy, at national or at EU level.” Surging food and fuel prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are fueling discontent across Europe, testing Western democracies’ political resilience. The first round of France’s presidential […]
Cade Metz and Adam Satariano NY Times, Apr. 13, 2022 “Most Russian tech workers are part of the global market. Either they work for global companies or they are tech entrepreneurs trying to build new companies for the global market. So they are leaving the country.” In early March, days after Russia invaded Ukraine and […]
Tuesday, April 19th 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Yaakov Lappin JNS, Apr. 18, 2022 “Until Noor 1, there was no official declaration by Iran that the IRGC has a space division. The IRGC, which is listed as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S., has a space division. I’m not aware of other terror organizations that can reach space,” said Inbar. Iran is gradually assembling […]
Friday, April 15th 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Leon R. Kass Mosaic, Apr. 6, 2020 “… getting the Israelites physically out of Egypt is the easy part; much harder will be getting Egypt—both the Israelites’ slavish mentality and the abiding allure of Egyptian luxury and mores—out of their psyches.” The essay below is adapted from Founding God’s Nation: Reading Exodus by Leon R. Kass, forthcoming […]
Thursday, April 14th 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Pini Dunner Algemeiner, Apr. 8, 2022 “One possibility that might explain the ultimate complete collapse of Egyptian ideas and ideals is the determined approach of Judaism to replace the religion and culture of their former masters, with a system that was the absolute antithesis of everything that Egypt represented.” For as long as there have […]
Daniella Hellerstein Jerusalem Post, Apr. 9, 2022 “Only a free nation works to set others free. Only the Jewish people with a State of Israel can be free as a state of mind, but also be free to bring others to freedom.” “This is the bread of affliction, the poor bread,which our ancestors ate in […]
Abigail Pogribin The Atlantic, Apr. 22, 2022 “But this year, my usual orientation toward “the stranger,” or, in contemporary parlance, “the other,” feels oversimplified, insufficient, naive to the idea—however hard to accept—that the hated “other” is sometimes us.” Every year, when my family sits down at the Passover seder table, we talk about the stranger. […]
POLITICS Why Hunter’s emails still matter. APRIL 11, 2022 PETER VAN BUREN You hear? The emails on Hunter Biden’s laptop are real. No less than the New York Times, the official mainstream media newspaper of the mainstream media, agrees. Actually, the FBI agreed first, as they are in the middle of a criminal investigation into Hunter’s business […]
Probably Will President Joe Biden’s son be indicted? Probably. There is less in that answer than you might suppose. It has been widely known for years that Hunter Biden has tax problems. In 2020, the District of Columbia slapped Biden fils with a $450,000 lien, stemming from tax delinquencies that stretched back to at least 2017. The […]
By Samuel Chamberlain and Mark Moore Hillary Clinton’s campaign, its lawyer and a tech executive took part in a “joint venture” to gather and spread dirt about Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign, special counsel John Durham charges in a new filing. The bombshell claim was made in a 48-page motion filed late Monday arguing for […]
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