Isranet Daily Briefing

Isranet Daily Briefing

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 […]

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Wednesday, March 29th 2023 / Wednesday, March 29th 2023

                 MEDIA-OCRITY  Netanyahu Cannot Be Trusted: Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times,  Mar.28, 2023 “Thank goodness that Israel’s civil society has forced Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to pause, for now, his attempt to impose his control over Israel’s independent judiciary and gain a free hand to rule as he wishes. […]

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Tuesday, March 28th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

WARNING BELLS SOUNDED What the War Against Judicial Reform is Really About:  Caroline Glick, Mar. 24, 2023 — The left’s total war against the Netanyahu government’s judicial reform plan seems to know no bounds, and appears impenetrable to information or substantive discussion.   JNS Webinar: Israel’s Judicial Reform Crisis Explained:  Alex Traiman, JNS, Mar. 27, […]

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Monday, March 27th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

IN THE BEGINNING … The Long March Back:  Nate Hochman, National Review, Feb. 16, 2023 — To understand today’s culture wars, we have to go back to the beginning: a jail cell in Fascist Italy. For the last decade of his life, Antonio Gramsci was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini’s regime for his role in founding the Italian Communist […]

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Friday, March 24th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

SHABBAT READING Meeting the Challenge of Critical Scholarship with Leviticus:  Dr. Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg, The Torah.com, May 17, 2016 — We are now in the opening stage of the debate in the modern Orthodox community on how to deal with critical biblical studies. Integrators One group – currently a minority, pioneering one – argues that we […]

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Thursday, March 23rd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

LESSONS LEARNED Applying the Lessons of the Iraq War to Ukraine: Ron DeSantis vs. Bret Stephens of the NY Times:  Real Clear Politics, Mar. 20, 2023— RealClearPolitics president and cofounder Tom Bevan and Washington bureau chief Carl Cannon discuss the 20th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War, as well as New York Times […]

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Wednesday, March 22nd 2023 / Tuesday, October 31st 2023

                                        WEEKLY QUOTES If the High Court of Justice strikes down the bill to change the makeup of the Judicial Selection Committee, Justice Minister Yariv Levin (Likud) does not intend to respect the ruling. Such a ruling would be “crossing […]

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Tuesday, March 21st 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

INCREASING TIES WATCH:  The Iranian Octopus: Terror and the Run-Up to Ramadan:  JNS, Mar. 20, 2023 —  During the past week, an Israeli was wounded by a bomb placed on a major Israeli highway by a terrorist from Lebanon, and a Hamas gunman shot several people in Central Tel Aviv. Although they were separate attacks, […]