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Wednesday, April 19th 2023 / Wednesday, April 19th 2023

                       MEDIA-OCRITY The West Hoped Lula Would Be a Partner. He’s Got His Own Plans.:  Moriah Balingit and Meaghan Tobin, Washington Post, Apr. 13, 2023 “In his first months in office, Brazilian President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva has declined to join President Biden in […]

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Tuesday, April 18th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

INCREASING TIES Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Memorial Day) Before There Was a State:  Israel from the inside with Daniel Gordis, Substack, Apr. 17, 2023, Includes video — Tonight, in Israel and throughout the world, begins the observance of Yom HaShoah, technically called Yom Ha-Shoah ve-ha-Gevurah, which roughly translates as Memorial Day for Victims of the Holocaust and their Bravery. […]

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Monday, April 17th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

  “Behind this vision, as always with the radical Democrats, is power, manifested in the drive arbitrarily to control individuals [which, again, involves de facto abrogation of Constitutional guarantees—much safer than a politically-risky direct assault on the Constitution] by limiting individual liberty and due process).” – Prof. Frederick Krantz Biden EPA’s New Vehicle Emissions Standards Spark Backlash from Auto Industry, Republicans: Nathan […]

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Friday, April 14th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

YHWH Battles the Egyptians with a Fiery Cloud:  Dr. David Ben-Gad HaCohen, The Torah.com, Apr. 7, 2023 — After the Israelites leave Egypt, the travel east to the border of the wilderness. שמות יג:כ וַיִּסְעוּ מִסֻּכֹּת וַיַּחֲנוּ בְאֵתָם בִּקְצֵה הַמִּדְבָּר.. Exod 13:20 They set out from Sukkot, and encamped at Etham, at the edge of the wilderness… […]

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Tuesday, April 11th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

INCREASING TIES WATCH:  Ruth Wisse Reflects on Anti-Semitism, the University, and American Society, Free as a Jew: Mosaic Magazine, Feb. 6, 2023  — In an in-depth discussion with Bari Weiss, drawn from her memoir Free as Jew (originally published in Mosaic), Ruth R. Wisse discusses her own remarkable life, the state of American Jewry today, the decline of America’s universities, the perils […]

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Monday, April 10th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

NO CLEAR ANSWERS Who Wrote the Ancient Passover Haggadah?:  Rabbi Ari Enkin, Algemeiner, Mar. 25, 2020 — Take a look at the inside cover of your Haggadah – you won’t find the name of any author! So how did we get the Haggadah that we have today? ____________________________________________________  WHAT’S TO BE DONE? INSS Experts on the Escalation in […]

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Tuesday, April 4th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

INCREASING TIES  It Came to Pass at Midnight—From the Amidah to the Passover Haggadah:  Prof. Rabbi Laura Lieber, The Torah.com, Sept. 26, 2020  –– The Passover Haggadah concludes with a series of songs, the first of which is וַיְהִי בַּחֲצִי הַלַּיְלָה, Vayhi BeChatzi HaLayla, “It Came to Pass at Midnight” (Exod 12:29). The song, however, was not […]

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Monday, April 3rd 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century:  Jacob Siegel, Tablet, Mar. 28, 2023 Tablet’s Grand Opus on the Anti-Disinformation Complex:  Matt Taibbi, Racket News, Mar. 30, 2023 Disinformation In the Age of ChatGPT:  Maximiliana Wynne, Modern War Institute, Feb. 3, 2023 ChatGPT Heralds an Intellectual Revolution:  Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher, WSJ, Feb. 24, […]

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Sunday, April 2nd 2023 / Sunday, April 2nd 2023

Citation de la semaine:  « En quoi cette nuit est-elle différente des autres? » Mishna Pessa’him 10:4 ________________________________________________ Table des Matières Extrait de Sept années à Jérusalem pp. 141-142 (Julien Bauer, 2012, Éditions du Marais) PESSA’H, LA FÊTE JUIVE QUI CÉLÈBRE LA RÉSILIENCE FACE À L’ADVERSITÉ  Erin Blakemore National Geographic, 19 avril 2022 Une immigrante ukrainienne […]

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Friday, March 31st 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

SHABBAT READING Understanding Sacrifice: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, The Rabbi Sacks Legacy, Tzav 5776, 5783 —   One of the most difficult elements of the Torah and the way of life it prescribes is the phenomenon of animal sacrifices – for obvious reasons. First, Jews and Judaism have survived without them for almost two thousand years. […]

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Thursday, March 30th 2023 / Tuesday, October 31st 2023

Citation de la semaine: “La tendance la plus profonde de toute activité humaine est la marche vers l’équilibre. ” Jean Piaget Six études de psychologie Table des Matières Israël : Benjamin Netanyahou annonce la suspension du projet de réforme judiciaire                               […]

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Thursday, March 30th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

UNDERSTANDING BARAK’S VISION Aharon Barak’s Revolution:  Hillel Neuer, Azure on Line, Winter 5758/1998, no. 3 — In recent years, the state of Israel has undergone a constitutional revolution that has remarkably escaped the notice of most Israelis. With the 1992 passage of Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty, and Basic Law: Freedom of Occupation, the power of the […]