Analysis
Tuesday, June 11th 2024
Jeffrey Levine The Times of Israel, June 9, 2024 “Trust, as a path to enlightenment, often leads to vulnerability, which in turn fosters bravery. Bravery cultivates connection, connection leads to purpose, and purpose enriches life.” As we approach Shavuot, we commemorate the momentous occasion of receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai. Rabbi Jonathan Sacks profoundly […]
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Dr. Tzvi Novick The Torah.com, May 27, 2020 “Thus, if in the first stage of Israel’s covenantal history, at Sinai, the people accept responsibility only for sins committed openly, in the second stage, upon entering the land of Israel, they are compelled to accept responsibility also for concealed sins.” Mutual Covenantal Responsibility at Sinai The […]
Leon Kass and Hannah Mandelbaum Jewish Review of Books, May 11, 2021 “… her words bespeak a profound desire—and capacity—for loyal and devoted friendship, that lifelong being-together of souls that, as much as is possible and beyond any mere concourse of bodies, can overcome the isolation and separation of human beings.” The recently widowed Ruth […]
Tuesday, June 11th 2024 / Tuesday, June 11th 2024
The Book of Books, June 3, 2024 “… she addresses the theological implications of October 7th for a person of faith: “a great miracle did not occur, we did not find the jar of oil.” Instead of discovering a miracle from above, ben Yosef sings, “we discovered ourselves.”” The upcoming holiday of Shavuot evokes the […]
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Monday, June 10th 2024
PRONOUNCED ABSURDITY BBC Asks Why IDF Didn’t Warn Gazans on Secret Raid:ILH staff, Israel Hayom, June 8, 2024 — Former IDF spokesperson Jonathan Conricus pushed back against a suggestion by BBC news anchor Helena Humphrey Sunday after she said the Israeli military should have given Palestinians advance warning on Saturday’s hostage rescue operation. EU’s Foreign Minister, Countries Around World, Condemn Rescue Op […]
Yaakov Lappin JNS, June 9, 2024 “The scale of the rehearsals was as large as the [1976] Entebbe operation—[in terms of] the models we used, as well as the way in which we trained, and we had to make sure that everything was done simultaneously,” he said. Saturday’s hostage rescue operation in central Gaza could not […]
Amir Bar Shalom Times of Israel, June 9, 2024 “The question now is how Saturday’s successful rescue will affect the negotiations to release the 120 hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza. Right now, these talks are on hold as all sides wait for Hamas’s response to the latest Israeli proposal for a deal, approved […]
Seth Mandel Commentary Magazine, June 7, 2024 “Hamas showed reporters shrouds and told them what was in them, and the reporters dutifully repeated what they were told.” Now it can be told! Hamas lied that people died. The Associated Press has an analysis up today that reveals—I hope you’re sitting down for this—that the Hamas/UN casualty […]
Herb Keinon Jerusalem Post, June 9, 2024 “The whole civilian issue here really needs to be analyzed impartially and understood.” Some 44 years ago, Britain’s Special Air Service (SAS) carried out a daring rescue operation to free some 20 hostages being held at the Iranian embassy in London. Twelve years ago, the British Special Boat Service, supported […]
Friday, June 7th 2024 / Friday, June 7th 2024
SHABBAT READING Liminal Space: BAMIDBAR • 5771, 5784, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, The Rabbi Sacks Legacy — In English, the book we begin this week is called Numbers, and for an obvious reason. It begins with a census, and there is even a second count toward the end of the book. On this view, the central theme of the book is demography. […]
Friday, June 7th 2024
Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post, June 1, 2024 “The current ceasefire plan is a plan to keep Hamas in power. The result will be that Hamas will return to running most of Gaza in the coming years and the reconstruction effort will likely empower Hamas as it has in the past.” US President Joe […]
Daniel Henninger WSJ, June 5, 2024 “Rarely discussed, because it is so incredible, is the assumption that any successor Israeli government would allow the Sinwar-led Hamas to emerge intact, in Gaza, with whatever weaponry it has left.” As reports come out of the Biden administration about cease-fire talks between Israel and Hamas, bear in mind […]
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