Analysis
Tuesday, August 9th 2022 / Tuesday, August 9th 2022
Nathan Lewin WSJ, July 7, 2022 “Orthodox Jews can now push to establish local laws like those nullified by the court’s 1971 decision, which would provide important funding to Jewish day schools and other religious educational options.” In Kennedy v. Bremerton, a decision upholding a public-school football coach’s right to kneel in prayer after a game, […]
Alan Dershowitz Gatestone Institute, Aug. 3, 2022 “It is difficult to imagine any other ethnic or other group of Democrats — Blacks, Arabs, gays — that would not even mention the issues of direct concern to that group at a large fundraiser. Why are Jewish Democrats different?” As President Joe Biden was returning from his […]
Benjamin M. Jacobs and Shuki Taylor Sapir Journal, Vol. 6, Summer 2022 “The universalization of Jewish education is built on the premise that a program can be everything to everyone. But trying to be everything to everyone often results in being nothing to anyone.” Educational systems generally favor stability over change. Most educational efforts […]
Samuel J. Abrams and Jack Wertheimer Tablet, June 24, 2022 “Levels of religious conviction, denominational identities, worship service attendance, and other expressions and measures of religiosity correlate with how most Americans vote in elections and identify politically in surveys.” It is a truism among many observers of the current socio-political scene that politics has […]
Monday, August 8th 2022 / Monday, August 8th 2022
David Horovitz Times of Israel, Aug. 7, 2022 “… the Israeli leadership did not claim it was going to destroy Islamic Jihad. It did not assert that it would put a halt to Gaza rocket fire. And it has determinedly sought to avoid drawing Hamas into the conflict.” Three days into Operation Breaking Dawn, […]
Yoav Limor JNS, Aug. 7, 2022 “… as the hits on the organization’s members increase PIJ will be forced to recalculate, after also failing to impose a new equation of deterrence creating a linkage between arrests in Judea and Samaria and threats from Gaza.” Israel may have registered a long list of successes so […]
Oded Granot Israel Hayom, Aug. 7, 2022 “It’s safe to assume that Hamas is not happy in a situation where it is being accused of sitting on the fence.” The terrorist leaders of Hezbollah in the north and the Palestinians in the south have a strong affinity for issuing menacing equations. Nasrallah’s latest was […]
Herb Keinon Jerusalem Post, Aug. 7, 2022 “Hamas, not Islamic Jihad, has overall authority for the life of the citizens in Gaza. It wants to be the one to decide when to launch a campaign against Israel.” The pictures coming out of Tehran the last few days went a long way toward explaining events […]
Friday, August 5th 2022 / Friday, August 5th 2022
Frank Talmadge Commentary, October 1981 The liturgy for the Ninth of Ab, the day of fasting which marks the destruction of the First and Second Temples as well as other tragedies in Jewish history, laments the fate of Jerusalem, “The mournful, wasted, degraded, and desolate city.” Every year the Israeli rabbinate is asked […]
Friday, August 5th 2022
Meir Y. Soloveitchik Commentary, June 2022 On May 6, 2022, Israel’s Independence Day, the Temple Mount was opened to Jews for the first time in 11 days. Jewish visitors, calmly and proudly walking into the sacred space, were hurried through the site by police. Their efforts to sing the national anthem and hoist the Israeli […]
Prof. Edward L. Greenstein The Torah.com, July 16, 2021 Lament is a widespread literary form of expression—from ancient to modern times, from East to West, chanted and declaimed.[1] Gershom Scholem (1897–1982), the great scholar of Jewish mysticism, characterizes lament as tragic discourse that finds expression not in language but in silence: [L]ament is precisely the […]
Yosef Lindell Lehrhaus, July 14, 2021 Eli Tziyon, with its haunting dirge-like melody, signals the end of kinnot on Tishah Be-Av morning in the Ashkenazic tradition. The kinnah seems a fitting conclusion. It sums up the misery of the day, chronicling why Zion laments—the exile of its people, the cessation of the sacrifices, the loss of life, the […]
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