Analysis
Tuesday, August 13th 2024
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks The Rabbi Sacks Legacy, July 28, 2014 “What the Torah tells us early on is how humanity failed. They did so in two ways. They created freedom without order. Or they created order without freedom. That is still the human tragedy.” Nine days from now Jewish communities around the world […]
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Tanya White Times of Israel, Aug. 9, 2024 “The current war Israel is fighting has suffered from many failures, one of the greatest of which is the failure of the echelons of leadership to provide an effective narrative.” At the end of the hit musical “Hamilton,” there is a song whose lyrics continue […]
Prof. Rabbi Marty Lockshin The Torah.com, July 31, 2022 “ … at times, the voices in Lamentations interrupt each other within the same verse.[19] According to this Talmudic interpretation cited by Rashi, God would be the one interrupting here, but, as Greenstein writes, the one voice that is conspicuously absent from the book of Lamentations […]
Saul J. Singer Jewish Press, Aug. 7, 2024 “As the sun set over Jerusalem the Golden reunited at last, Jews of all backgrounds and ethnicities gathered at the Wall on Tisha B’Av for the first time in two millennia. Sitting on the hallowed ground holding small candles, they participated in thousands of small minyanim […]
Monday, August 12th 2024
Avital Indig/ Makor Rishon Israel Hayom, July 10, 2024 “Over the course of time antisemitism has led to two opposite processes: For some, it has aroused a strong desire to distance themselves from Judaism and to assimilate, while among others it has actually sparked a will to withdraw inwards and to bring the Jewish community […]
Caroline B. Glick JNS, Aug. 11, 1014 “While Harris’s aides have breathlessly insisted that she never expressed any support for an arms embargo and that she opposes an arms embargo, Harris supported the administration’s decision to block shipments of several critical weapons systems to Israel.” Former President Donald Trump drives liberal Jews to distraction when […]
Jonathan Marc Gribetz Tablet, Aug. 4, 2024 “And when Berger spoke, Palestinian nationalists and their Arab supporters listened.” Rabbi Elmer Berger was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1908 and studied at the University of Cincinnati before undertaking rabbinical studies at Hebrew Union College. After his ordination in 1932, he served as rabbi of various Reform […]
David Mamet Unherd, Aug. 9, 2024 “The proximate solution to Jewish vulnerability — which I saw but did not say — was not in persuading others to think differently, but in so-persuading oneself.” How may one today elide the choice between defending the Jewish State’s right to exist, and support for its determined assassins? […]
Friday, August 9th 2024 / Friday, August 9th 2024
James M. Dorsey Times of Israel, July 21, 2024 “Nablus, with a population of 150,000 residents, “was one of the biggest laboratories in 2002 for the development of a new type of urban warfare. Israelis were studying how cities operate.” The images of Israel’s reduction of Gaza to a pile of rubble and destructive West […]
Amir Lupovici INSS Research Forum | July 2024 “If there are such great limitations on the ability to deter Hamas, how did it happen that Israel relied so extensively on this strategy?” Introduction The brutal Hamas attack on October 7 brought up a variety of strategic issues, including questions about the strategy of deterrence and Israel’s […]
Friday, August 9th 2024
Dr. Dan Dyker Jerusalem Center for Public Policy, Aug. 8, 2024 “These methods of misinformation are part of a trend of mobilizing and exploiting advanced “perception warfare” alongside Iranian-backed Hizbullah and Hamas terrorism, which has intensified since the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel.” Hamas’s cognitive war against Israel since its October 7 invasion has […]
David M. Weinberg MSN, Aug. 3, 2024 “Israel’s strategic goals have become too limited in recent decades, hamstrung by the failed Oslo peace process with Palestinians and the failed Obama peace process with Iranians.” October 7 (Hamas’s invasion of Israel) and April 14 (Iran’s missile attack on Israel) demand that Jerusalem free itself from stale strategic paradigms. The […]
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