Isranet Daily Briefing

Isranet Daily Briefing

Wednesday, August 18th 2021

Longtime Montreal Rabbi Howard Joseph Passes Away:  Dan Verbin, Arutz Sheva, Aug. 17, 2021 — Rabbi Howard Joseph, who served as the spiritual leader of Montreal’s Spanish and Portuguese Congregation – the oldest synagogue in Canada – for four decades, has passed away. MEDIA-OCRITIES OF THE WEEK Biden Says Kabul’s Fall to Taliban ‘Not Inevitable’ as Fighting […]

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Monday, August 16th 2021

Gen. Keane Blasts ‘Ill-Conceived, Embarrassing’ Afghanistan Retreat:  Fox News, Aug. 13, 2021 — Fox News senior strategic analyst Gen. Jack Keane questions why an evacuation is happening in the heart of the Mideast fighting season. Former Israeli Ambassador Warns: Fall of Afghanistan Shows Israel Must Rely on Itself:  Algemeiner, Aug. 15, 2021 — A former […]

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Monday, August 16th 2021 / Monday, August 16th 2021

Afghan President Ghani Flees as Taliban Enters Kabul:  Haaretz, Aug. 17, 2021 — Taliban insurgents entered Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Sunday and an official said President Ashraf Ghani had left the city for Tajikistan, capping the militants’ lightning push for power. The Afghan Military Was Built Over 20 Years. How Did It Collapse So Quickly?:  […]

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Friday, August 13th 2021 / Friday, August 13th 2021

Sura and Pumbedita:  Stephen Schecter, New English Review, February 2019 — As soon as I came across those names in a book about the history of the Jews, I was entranced. Sura and Pumbedita, I murmured to myself, imagining them as fabled and gabled as that Ur whence Abraham ventured forth. Here his progeny had returned some fifteen […]

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Friday, August 13th 2021 / Friday, August 13th 2021

Citation de la semaine: « Il n’est jamais trop tard pour être en retard » Anonyme Burns, CIA : l’Amérique envisage les alternatives à l’accord nucléaire  LAHAV HARKOV terre-des-juifs.com, 9 AOUT La première réunion des chefs de la CIA et du Mossad en Israël est cruciale  YONAH JEREMY BOB terre-des-juifs.com/,10 AOUT 2021 L’Iran a toute une gamme […]

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Thursday, August 12th 2021 / Thursday, August 12th 2021

10 Key Findings About Jewish Americans:  Becka A. Alper and Alan Cooperman, PEW Research Center, May 11, 2021 — Jews in the United States are on the whole less religious than the overall public, at least by standard measures used in surveys. But Jewish Americans participate in a wide range of culturally Jewish activities as […]

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Wednesday, August 11th 2021 / Wednesday, August 11th 2021

As Covid Surges in Florida, DeSantis Refuses to Change Course:  Patricia Mazzei, NY Times, Aug. 8, 2021“ ‘We know this is something you’re going to have to live with”, Mr. DeSantis said [prompting] a testy back and forth…with Mr. Biden. The governor accused the president of ‘helping facilitate’ the virus spread by not securing the U.S. border with […]

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Tuesday, August 10th 2021

https://isranet.org/analysis/it-was-not-an-insurrection-in-america/ https://isranet.org/analysis/pelosi-undermines-the-jan-6-committee/ https://isranet.org/analysis/commentary-officer-fanones-bodycam-video-of-capitol-6-riot-still-not-released/ https://isranet.org/analysis/why-congress-wont-investigate-the-2020-summer-riots/   For Further Reference: Byron York’s Daily Memo: Sentencing the January 6 Rioters:  Byron York, Washington Examiner, Aug. 9, 2021 — The legal cases of more than 600 people charged in the Capitol riot are moving slowly, slowly, slowly. But a few early cases are nearing an end. The Consequences of […]

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Monday, August 9th 2021

CHECK OUT THE FULL ARTICLES ON isranet.org SAVE THE DATE:  Sunday, Aug. 22, 2021 @7:30 EST:  Join us for CIJR’s 33rd Annual Gala featuring Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Dean Simon Wiesenthal Center, and the Israeli Arab activist Yoseph Haddad.  Register here How to Overthrow the Iranian Regime:  Caroline B. Glick blog, Aug. 6, 2021, Video — This week’s episode of the Caroline Glick […]

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Friday, August 6th 2021 / Friday, August 13th 2021

Citation de la semaine:  Rien ne fouette le sang comme le dépit d’avoir été dupe.  Victor Cherbuliez ; Prosper Randoce (1867) Au bout de combien de gifles Biden lâchera t-il l’accord nucléaire iranien?terre-des-juifs.com, 3 août 2021 Israël accuse, l’Iran proteste : 5 minutes pour comprendre l’attaque d’un pétrolier au large d’Oman Clémence Bauduin  i24news.tv/,2 août 2021 Le grand […]

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Friday, August 6th 2021 / Friday, August 6th 2021

Autobiographical by A.M. Klein:  National Film Board of Canada, 1965 — A poet’s view of Montréal, as revealed in the rich imagery of his verse. From Klein’s poetry this film reveals what he saw and valued, and so presents a many-sided vignette of the old Montréal and the Jewish community he knew as a boy. […]

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Thursday, August 5th 2021 / Thursday, August 5th 2021

Rockets Fired From Lebanon Toward Israel, IDF Responds With Artillery Fire:  Anna Ahronheim and Tzvi Joffre, Jerusalem Post, Aug. 4, 2021 — Three rockets were fired from Lebanon towards Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel on Wednesday afternoon, setting off rocket sirens in Kiryat Shmona, Kfar Giladi and Tel Hai, according to the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit. […]