Isranet Daily Briefing

Isranet Daily Briefing

Friday, August 23rd 2024

SHABBAT READING   Psalms for Our Times: Rashi Counters Christological Readings:  Prof. Rabbi Mordechai Z. Cohen, The Torah.com,  Aug. 2, 2024  — It is becoming increasingly accepted that Rashi reacted polemically to Christian beliefs and Bible interpretation, and that, throughout his commentaries, he was implicitly refuting the Christian claim that God had rejected Israel. He thus made the […]

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Thursday, August 22nd 2024

“ABSOLUTELY CHILLING” Multiple Jewish Organizations, Hospitals Across Canada Receive Identical Bomb Threats:  National Post, Aug. 21, 2024 — Police in multiple cities across Canada are responding to bomb threats that were sent to Jewish organizations, synagogues and some hospitals this morning.   Courageous Leadership Is Needed to Combat Antisemitism in Canada: Deborah Lyons, National Post, July 26, 2024 — […]

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Wednesday, August 21st 2024

RESILIENCE AND TRUST   Swords of Iron Survey Results – August 2024:  Mora Deitch, Rebecca Meller, Idit Shafran Gittleman and Anat Shapira, INSS, Aug. 21, 2024 — Since the Swords of Iron war outbreak, the Institute for National Security Studies regularly conducts public opinion surveys to examine national resilience and public trust trends. *** Thinking the Thinkable: Israel’s […]

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Tuesday, August 20th 2024

NO SURPRISE Columbia University Restores Dozens of Pro-Hamas Rioters to Good Standing, New Report Says:  Dion J. Pierre, Algemeiner, Aug. 19, 2024 — Columbia University punished very few of the students who were involved in occupying an administrative building and staging a riot which prompted the university, fearing an outbreak of racial violence, to revoke a Jewish professor’s […]

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Monday, August 19th 2024

“Do these judgments suggest a leadership in Jerusalem that believes in the potential net benefits of a measured nuclear retaliation? Or do they suggest a leadership in Jerusalem that believes such a reprisal would bring upon Israel variously intolerable levels of conventional Iranian destruction? And is the leadership in Tehran expectedly rational?” – Louis Rene Beres […]

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Friday, August 16th 2024

SHABBAT READING   The Shema: Instructions for a Romance with YHWH:  Prof. Rabbi Reuven Kimelman, The Torah.com, Aug. 11, 2022 — The Shema[1] is taken from the book of Deuteronomy, and named after the first word of the passage: דברים ו:ד שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל יְ־הוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ יְ־הוָה אֶחָד. Deut 6:4 Hear, O Israel! YHWH is our God, YHWH alone. Following this […]

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Thursday, August 15th 2024 / Thursday, August 15th 2024

Citation de la semaine:   “Nous avons appris de l’Europe que l’apaisement ne marche pas. Nous ne voulons pas que le nouvel Hitler de l’Iran refasse au Moyen-Orient ce qui s’est passé en Europe » Mohammad Ben Salman, Prince héritier d’Arabie Saoudite (faisant allusion à l’ayatollah Ali Khamenei)                  […]

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Thursday, August 15th 2024

‘So Unimaginable and So Abhorrent’: Federal Judge Orders UCLA to Stop Aiding Activists Enforcing Jew-Free Zones on Campus:  Zach Kessel, National Review, Aug. 14, 2024 The AAUP Abandons Academic Freedom:  Cary Nelson, SPME, Aug. 13, 2024 The Boycott Against Israel Is Spreading into New Corners of Society:  Anat Peled and Carrie Keller-Lynn, SPME, July 10, 2024 War College: How […]

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Wednesday, August 14th 2024 / Wednesday, August 14th 2024

Iran’s Profound Predicament:  Salem Alktebi, Israel Hayom, Aug. 11, 2024 China Is Now Goading Iran into Attacking Israel:  Gordon G. Chang, Gatestone Institute, Aug. 14, 2024 Iran Is Better Positioned to Launch Nuclear-Weapons Program, New U.S. Intelligence Assessment Says:  Laurence Norman and Michael R. Gordon, WSJ, Aug. 9, 2024 Only a Credible Offensive Threat Can Deter […]

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Tuesday, August 13th 2024 / Tuesday, August 13th 2024

INCREASING TIES Podcast: J.J. Schacter on the First Tisha b’Av Since October 7:  Tikvah podcast at Mosaic, Aug. 2, 2024 — On the 9th day of the Hebrew month of Av in the year 586 BCE, Nebuchadnezzar and his Babylonian forces destroyed the Temple in Jerusalem.    Original Tisha B’Av Documentary: Heroism and Faith amid the […]

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Monday, August 12th 2024

BACKING THE WRONG PONY WATCH:  Elections 2024: What Elites Are MISSING About the Working Class | Think Twice:  JNS TV, July 29, 2024 — So much has been said about Donald Trump’s appeal to blue collar workers since he first came down the escalator to announce his candidacy in 2015. … In this episode of Think Twice, our […]

Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing

Sunday, August 11th 2024

Citation de la semaine:   « Une armée sans agents secrets est exactement comme un homme sans yeux ni oreilles. » Sun Tzu, L’Art de la guerre _____________________________________________________                                        Table des Matières _____________________________________________________ Iran: les médias expliquent le retard […]