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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                  […]

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Wednesday, May 17th 2023 / Wednesday, May 17th 2023

                   MEDIA-OCRITY House Republican Report Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by President Biden:  Luke Broadwater, NY Times, May 10, 2023 ‘After four months of investigation, House Republicans who promised to use their new majority to unearth evidence of wrongdoing by President Biden acknowledged on Wednesday that they had […]

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Tuesday, May 16th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

POLL:  SAUDIS SEEK ‘SOME TIES’ WITH ISRAEL New Saudi Opinion Poll Shows 40 Percent Still Back Some Ties with Israel; Three-Fourths Say Rocket Fire Against Israel Will Have Negative Effects:  David Pollock, Washington Institute, May 15, 2023 — Against the background of this week’s exchanges of fire between Israel and Gaza, it is striking that the solid […]

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Monday, May 15th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

  How Theodor Herzl’s Vision Created the Modern Jewish State: A Fireside Chat With David Matlow, Owner Of World’s Largest Collection of Herzl Memorabilia:  Honest Reporting Canada, May 10, 2023 — On May 14, 1948, David Ben Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, proclaimed the Jewish State’s independence. Across Israel, euphoria erupted as crowds celebrated the country’s rebirth […]

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Friday, May 12th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

SHABBAT READING Family Feeling: Behar, Bechukotai, 5776, 5783:  Covenant & Conversation, The Rabbi Sacks Legacy — I argued in my Covenant and Conversation for parshat Kedoshim that Judaism is more than an ethnicity. It is a call to holiness. In one sense, however, there is an important ethnic dimension to Judaism. Have Religious Israeli Jews Given Up on Israel’s Secular Society? – […]