SHABBAT READING
What is Shemini Atzeret?: Rabbi Paul Steinberg, My Jewish Learning, no date — Although Hoshanah Rabbah may technically be the “last day” of Sukkot, the Rabbis decided to treat Shemini Atzeret (and Simchat Torah) as a part of Sukkot , because its significance is unequivocally informed by Sukkot itself.
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Remembering the Yom Kippur War in a Divided Israel: Michael Oren, WSJ, Sept. 28, 2023
The Hidden Calculation Behind the Yom Kippur War: Michael Doran, Mosaic Magazine, Oct. 2, 2023
Revisionist Historians Strike on 50th Anniversary of Yom Kippur War: Moshe Phillips, Israel National News, Sept. 28, 2023
‘If that Doesn’t Help, Resort to Extreme Measures’: The Nuclear Secrets of the Yom Kippur War Exposed: Ronen Bergman, Or Fialkov, Ynet News, Sept. 15, 2023 kippur
FOR FURTHER REFERENCE:
Uri Kaufman on the Yom Kippur War: Lit Hub, Aug. 30, 2023 — Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.
“Eighteen Days In October”: A New, Fascinating Book On The Yom Kippur War Was Twenty Years In The Making [excerpt]: Daniel Gordis, Israel from the Inside, Sept. 27, 2023 — We spoke with the author, Uri Kaufman, about how he came to write the book, what we need to rethink about what we’ve been taught and, of course, how well Golda really did.
Eighteen Days in October — How Israel Turned the Tide: Lawrence Freedman, Financial Times, Sept. 13, 2023 — An abiding memory of October 6 1973 is of Israeli men rushing out of their synagogues on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, to go to war. If Israel’s intelligence system had worked as it should, there would have been no need to dash: they would already have been mobilised, and the Egyptian and Syrian armies would either have been deterred or defeated.
What the IDF Still Doesn’t Understand About the Yom Kippur War: Caroline Glick, Carolineglick.com, Sept. 29, 2023 — To discuss the way that the Yom Kippur War impacted the men who fought it and generations of Israeli leaders who have grappled with it ever since, my guest on this week’s “Caroline Glick Show” is Israel Defense Forces Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen.