Analysis
Tuesday, October 15th 2024
Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, Oct. 9. 2024 “The message this sends to all journalists at the news network is that they better not ask any tough questions when interviewing those who advocate for the end of Israel.” There are times when terrible books can be useful. In the case of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ truly awful The […]
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*** David Harsanyi Washington Examiner, Oct. 1, 2024 “Coates is less a one-note thinker than a toddler banging on a snare drum with a mallet.” Ta-Nehisi Coates begins the Israeli-Palestinian section of his new book, The Message, with a visit to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem. The excursion, taken on the last day of his 10-day junket to […]
Barton Swain The Washington Free Beacon, Oct. 13, 2024 “With The Message, Ta-Nehisi Coates has become a clownish, postmodern Walter Duranty.” Rarely has a book been so lavishly applauded as Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me was in 2015. The book fetched gushing reviews, admiring interviews in prestigious media, won eminent literary prizes, and almost instantly […]
Jeffrey Blahar National Review, Oct. 9, 2024 “Essentially, he was formally and professionally condemned by his own company for asking pointed questions of a person pre-designated as a saint: the crime of lèse-majesté.’ The mainstream media has been afire over the past week about a major internal controversy at CBS, where CBS Mornings anchor Tony Dokoupil has been called […]
Friday, October 11th 2024 / Friday, October 11th 2024
Helen Plotkin Tablet, Sept. 3, 2013 “For 10 days we live with excruciating awareness of the fact that our stories will include suffering, without any promise that we will be comforted. On Yom Kippur we give ourselves over completely to this truth.” On the High Holidays, we read a poem known by its first two […]
Dror Eydar Israel Hayom, Oct. 11, 2024 “All of this relates to repairing our relationship with God, which is, in essence, a repair of our relationship with ourselves.” 1. Recently, a wise and beautiful woman confided in me that Yom Kippur, for her, is a frightening and sad day. “I tremble at the memory of the […]
Abraham Cooper The Media Line, Oct. 11, 2024 “How in God’s name was it possible to deny on October 8 what the world witnessed on October 7? Where did Hamas learn such a strategy, and to what end? The roots of this denial trace back to the last century, to history’s greatest crime—the Holocaust. For […]
Moshe Halbertal Jewish Review of Books, Fall 2011 “The juxtaposition of law and narrative is a characteristic and important feature of the Talmud. After discussing the formal requirements for requesting forgiveness, the Talmud presents four brief stories of encounters in which rabbinic masters attempt to reconcile with those they have injured.” Near the […]
Thursday, October 10th 2024
Brendan O’Neill Spiked, Oct. 9, 2024 “Think about this: Jewish students marking the one-year anniversary of the worst act of anti-Semitic violence since the Holocaust were mobbed by students celebrating that violence, bigging it up as ‘resistance’. This was Jew-taunting dolled up as radical activism, the salt of Israel-hate rubbed into the wound of Jews’ […]
Jordan Peterson The Standard, Oct. 4, 2024 “What else did I conclude? That the Jews are the eternal canary in the coal mine, and that their persecution signals the downfall of a society.” I have been watching the rising tide of antisemitism for about five years. It first appeared online, manifesting itself in the form […]
Jim Geraghty National Review, Oct. 7, 2024 “If your lone measuring stick of geopolitical events was the reaction of American college students, you would think that (a) the October 7 massacre and mass rapes were a minor provocation, not even worth much discussion, and (b) the Israeli military response to that massacre is a greater […]
Chaim Lax Algemeiner, Oct. 8, 2024 “… antisemitic incidents rose (in comparison to the previous month) and the media stories that may have influenced this dangerous rise in anti-Jewish bigotry.” Since Hamas’ brutal invasion of Israel on October 7, 2023, antisemitic incidents in the United States and around the world have risen exponentially. These incidents include acts of […]
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