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Friday, May 30th 2025 / Friday, May 30th 2025
Shmuel Lubin The Lehrhaus, June 6, 2019 When it comes to the holiday of Shavuot, few questions are as famous as the one posed by Magen Avraham (494:1) on the problem of associating the holiday with the date of the Sinai revelation, the giving of the Torah. Based on his reading of a talmudic discussion in Shabbat (86b), […]
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Friday, May 30th 2025
Prof. Sam Fleischacker The Torah.com, Nov. 4, 2013 Under Sinai or in the Jerusalem Square? The revelation at Sinai, as described in the Torah, provides an immensely appealing model of what it might be like for God to speak to us. We experience there uncanny thunder and lightning, perhaps synaesthetically, above which a voice […]
Dr. Tzvi Novick The Torah.com, May 27, 2020 Mutual Covenantal Responsibility at Sinai The famous rabbinic dictum has it that כל ישראל ערבים זה בזה “all Israelites are guarantors one for the other,” or in other words, that each is responsible to “pay” for the sin of the other.[1] But what is the extent of […]
Thursday, May 29th 2025
Matina Stevis-Gridneff NY Times, May 22, 2025 “If more of their neighbors follow their lead, the European Union could become a major counterweight to the American position that Palestinian statehood should result only from a negotiated settlement with Israel. That would deepen the rift between Europe and Israel.” In Europe, long a vital source […]
Susanne Mundschenk Unherd, May 28, 2025 “Benjamin Netanyahu’s government may see Europe’s repositioning as a confirmation that Israel is on its own, and so may continue the military operation in Gaza regardless.” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has this week changed his tone and message on Israel and its war in Gaza. France and the […]
Reuters and TOI staff Times of Israel, May 29, 2025 “Diplomats say Canada and Britain remain lukewarm for now about recognition, suggesting the priority is to make a difference on the ground, something that may dampen Macron’s ambitions.” French President Emmanuel Macron is leaning towards recognizing a Palestinian state, but diplomats and experts say […]
National Herald, May 28, 2025 “We must move from words to deeds. Faced with facts on the ground, the prospect of a Palestinian state must be maintained. Irreversible and concrete measures are necessary.” President Emmanuel Macron is reportedly considering the formal recognition of a Palestinian state, a move that, while symbolically potent, is viewed […]
Wednesday, May 28th 2025
Zineb Riboua Tablet, May 26, 2025 “The hatred Yaron confronted, with patience, clarity and grace, had found him.” The memory of my last hug with Yaron Lischinsky stays with me. It was quick and familiar, as I crossed the street. He smiled, warm and full of life, and said goodbye with a steadiness that made it feel […]
Kathleen Hayes Jewish Journal, May 25, 2025 “But beyond the focus on Jews, this Manichean worldview declares entire classes of people reactionary and evil, and suggests they ultimately must be eliminated for the sake of human betterment.” The cult has metastasized. For 25 years, I belonged to a far-left, insular, authoritarian Trotskyist organization. Today I’d […]
Wednesday, May 28th 2025 / Wednesday, May 28th 2025
Melanie Phillips JNS, May 22, 2025 “The global humanitarian establishment, however, speaks with one voice to tell the world that Israel is wantonly killing children and causing the Gazans to starve.” It was inevitable that the pre-pogrom climate created by the “globalize the intifada” mobs in the streets and on campus over the past 19 […]
Brendan O’Neill Spiked, May 27, 2025 “Why does this aid initiative feel ‘so problematic’, asks one headline? I can answer that: it’s because the Jewish State is spearheading it.” Israel is behaving criminally again. It has once more turned its nose up at ‘humanitarian principles’. It is trampling even harder than usual all over international […]
Tuesday, May 20th 2025
David E. Sanger NY Times, May 18, 2025 “It is unclear whether Mr. Witkoff and Mr. Trump can sell the president’s supporters on an agreement that stops short of dismantlement as a permanent solution to a problem Mr. Trump has insisted he would solve, once and for all.” President Trump’s chief Iran negotiator said on […]
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