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Sunday, June 4th 2023 / Sunday, June 4th 2023

Citation de la semaine:  “Si l’on t’invite à table servie, un refus te fera prendre pour un ingrat.” Proverbe turc  ________________________________________________________________        Table des Matières   Shimon Sherman. Que signifie l’élection de la Turquie pour Israël ?  Tribune Juive, 20 mai 2023 La course présidentielle en Turquie : analyse des enjeux internes et internationaux […]

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Friday, June 2nd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

SHABBAT READING Birkat Kohanim: The Magic of a Blessing:  Prof. Shawna Dolansky, The Torah.com, Jan. 15, 2016 — Many of us are familiar with the priestly benediction (birkat hakohanim) from the liturgy, found in Numbers 6:24-26. A sensational archaeological find by Gabriel Barkay in 1979 demonstrates the antiquity of this blessing at least as far back […]

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Thursday, June 1st 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

‘The Soldier’s Truth’ Review:  Ernie Pyle, at the Front:  Ben Yagoda,WSJ, May 24, 2023 The Price of Victory: Stanley Goldfarb, Washington Free Beacon, May 29, 2023 Buried Under the Stars:  Jamie Betesh Carter, Tablet, May 25, 2023 The Anonymous Postcard That Inspired a French Best-Seller:  Leslie Camhi, New Yorker, May 11, 2023 For Further Reference: […]

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Wednesday, May 31st 2023 / Wednesday, May 31st 2023

      WEEKLY QUOTES   “All Israeli occupation settlements built on the land of the State of Palestine, including the formerly evacuated Homesh settlement in the north of the West Bank, are illegal.” — Nabil Abu Rudeineh, the spokesperson for PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas, in a statement responding to the relocation of the Homesh Yeshiva to a […]

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Tuesday, May 30th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Is it Enough The U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism May 2023:  The White House, May 25, 2023-– Six years ago, Neo-Nazis marched from the shadows through Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting, “Jews will not replace us.” With torches in hand, they spewed the same antisemitic bile and hate that were heard across Europe in the 1930s. […]

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Monday, May 29th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

A SON’S PRAISE  My Father, Henry Kissinger, is Turning 100. This is his Guide to Longevity.:  David Kissinger,  Washington Post, May 25, 2023 — On Saturday, my father, Henry Kissinger, celebrates his 100th birthday. This might have an air of inevitability for anyone familiar with his force of character and love of historical symbolism. Not only […]

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Thursday, May 25th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Podcast: Jon Levenson on the Moral Force of the Book of Ruth:  Jon Levenson and Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, June 3, 2022 — Beginning Saturday night [this year, Thur. night], the Jewish people will celebrate the holiday of Shavuot. During the festival, Jews traditionally study the book of Ruth, the biblical text that tells the story of […]

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Wednesday, May 24th 2023

                   MEDIA-OCRITY Unanswered Questions About Trump and Russia:  Peggy Noonan, WSJ, May 18, 2023   “[The Durham Report on the FBI] sounds about right. Yet I still don’t know what to think about Trump/Russia and am not satisfied we’ll ever fully understand it . . . Mr. […]

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Tuesday, May 23rd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

INCREASING TIES LISTEN:  Antisemitic Incidents Seem Disproportionately High in Canada. How Is This Possible?:  Canadian Jewish News, May 1, 2023 — When B’nai Brith released its annual antisemitism report on April 17, documenting 2,769 incidents of Jew hatred in Canada last year, we wondered why the numbers were so high. After all, the Canadian government’s […]

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Friday, May 19th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

CELEBRATING YOM YERUSHALAYIM:  MAY 18TH – 19TH Why Jews Speak of Memory, Not History:  Meir Y. Soloveichik, Commentary Magazine, June 2023 — On a recent visit to Israel, I toured the Museum of the Underground Prisoners, in Acre. It is housed in the Ottoman fortress that the British utilized as their most important prison during their colonial […]

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Thursday, May 18th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Who Wants to Destroy Israel? You Might Be Surprised.:  Guy Milliere, Gatestone Institute, May 15, 2023 — On April 17-18, Israel observed Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day. Sirens sounded across the country while people stood for two minutes of silence in remembrance of six million Jews who had been murdered. ________________________________________________________ Israel at 75 Is Threatened but Strong:  Walter Russell […]

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Thursday, May 18th 2023 / Thursday, May 18th 2023

Citation de la semaine: « Je ne vis pas à Jérusalem, Jérusalem vit en moi. » Elie Wiesel Table des Matières   Journée de Jérusalem – Yom Yeroushalaïm, des pierres et des jours alyah.fr, 23 mai 2017 Le jour où la guerre a fait irruption à Jérusalem                  […]