Isranet Daily Briefing

Isranet Daily Briefing

Friday, April 18th 2025

SHABBAT READING Song of Songs: A Secret for Maimonides, An Open Book for Gersonides:  Prof. Menachem Kellner, The Torah.com, Apr. 17, 2025— If ever a biblical text “cried out” to be interpreted allegorically, it is Song of Songs. Indeed, the Talmud states that treating the Song like a regular song is an insult to God […]

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Thursday, April 17th 2025

EDGELORD HALLOWNESS Douglas Murray: ‘The Podcasters Have Won’:  Unherd, Apr. 15, 2025 — Author Douglas Murray sits down with UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers to discuss his new book On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel, Hamas and the Future of the West.  WATCH:  Dave Smith Is Wrong About Israel – International Lawyer Natasha Hausdorff Explains Why:  Ami’s House, Apr. 16, 2025 — […]

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Wednesday, April 16th 2025

I Kept My Freedom in Hamas’s Captivity: Agam Berger, WSJ, Apr. 10, 2025 If Moses Freed the Jews Today, the UN Would Condemn Him as a War Criminal – Opinion:  Gerald M. Steinberg, Jerusalem Post, Apr. 11, 2025 How Harvard’s President Spoiled Passover:  Ira Stoll, The NY Sun, Apr. 15, 2025 Passover and the Inevitable […]

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Tuesday, April 15th 2025 / Tuesday, April 15th 2025

The Little-Known Bureaucrats Tearing Through American Universities: Liz Essley Whyte, Douglas Belkin and Sara Randazzo:  WSJ, Apr. 14, 2025 Trump Administration Will Freeze $2 Billion After Harvard Refuses Demands: Vimal Patel, NY Times, Apr. 14, 2025 Does the US Government Have the Right to Condition Funding to Universities?:  Alan Dershowitz, Gatestone, Apr. 1, 2025 A […]

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Friday, April 11th 2025 / Friday, April 11th 2025

“The Haggadah is a book with no single author, a text shaped by centuries of anonymous accretions and insertions. Perhaps its non-linear development is part of the reason why, as I’ve written,  it tells a disorganized account of the Exodus. And yet, the Haggadah that has come down to us still hangs together, possessed by a […]

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Thursday, April 10th 2025

WATCH: Former IDF Spox Says Hamas Doesn’t Intend to Voluntarily Release All the Hostages:  World Israel News, Apr. 7, 2025 — Jonathan Conricus believes Hamas is only stalling for time and has no real intention of releasing all hostages, warning that Israel can’t afford to settle for anything less than total hostage recovery and Hamas’ […]

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Wednesday, April 9th 2025 / Wednesday, April 9th 2025

TRUMP SURPRISE WATCH:  Trump Enters Iran Talks but Israeli Expert Says ‘No Bad Deal Coming’:  Sivan Raviv, Ynet News, Apr. 8, 2025 — Although U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the United States has entered direct talks with Iran to halt its nuclear weapons program and reach a deal, at least one Israeli analyst says […]

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Tuesday, April 8th 2025

… many European newspapers refer to the ICC’s decisions as if they were soundly legal and beyond reproach. But a closer look at its procedures reveals political betrayal: its goal was never justice, but rather the strategic paralysis of Israel.” — Dr. Fiamma Nirenstein “IMPORTANT FOR ALL DEMOCRACIES” WATCH:  Remarks by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu […]

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Monday, April 7th 2025

WATCH:  In Exclusive Interview: Netanyahu Tells the Full Story of the War:  Israel Update – with Michael Doran and Gadi Taub, Tablet, Mar. 29, 2025 — In this one-hour and ten-minute talk, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walks us through all the major decisions that shaped the Iron Swords war thus far. (Hebrew, with English subtitles) […]

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Friday, April 4th 2025

Citations de la semaine: “Je préférerais un accord à l’autre solution qui ne sera pas belle à voir” Donald Trump (à propos du nucléaire iranien)  Le Hamas publie une deuxième vidéo de propagande de l’otage Elkana Bohbot:Times of Israel Staff, 29 March 2025 Antisémitisme à Harvard : Trump menace de couper les milliards de financements […]

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Friday, April 4th 2025

SHABBAT READING Nehama Leibowitz: A Pioneering Orthodox Scholar and Teacher: Prof. Marc Zvi Brettler and Prof. Edward Breuer, The Torah.com, no date —  Nehama Leibowitz (September 3, 1905 – April 12, 1997, 5 Nisan 5757) was one the most influential Jewish Bible scholars of the twentieth century, and certainly the first Orthodox woman Bible scholar […]

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Thursday, April 3rd 2025

TURKEY’S LAWFARE? I Am the Turkish President’s Main Challenger. I Was Arrested.:  Ekrem Imamoglu, NY Times, Mar. 28, 2025 — Early in the morning on March 19, dozens of armed police officers showed up at my door with a detention order. The scene resembled the capture of a terrorist, not of the elected mayor of […]