Analysis
Monday, March 25th 2024 / Sunday, March 24th 2024
Leanne Stillerman Zabow, Times of Israel, Mar. 25, 2024 This is our first Purim in Israel as olim (immigrants). I heard the question “how can we celebrate and be happy at such a time”? asked several times. The resounding idea came through that even more so, we should celebrate this year. We are […]
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Stuart Halpern WSJ, Mar. 21, 2024 “Purim’s story reminds its readers that though what the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks called the “dignity of difference” might be intolerable for some, pride in Jewish particularism serves as the wellspring of salvation.” Jews have always been a biblically minded people, but this year one ancient story feels tragically resonant. Synagogues […]
Rabbi Wendy Zierler The Torah.com, Mar. 17, 2016 “Purim merits repeated reassertion and preservation as an enduring truth in modern times and beyond not merely because it serves as a yearly reminder of Jewish vulnerability in exile and our gratitude for all the salvation that chance has sent our way but because it is the holiday […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Friday, March 22nd 2024
SHABBAT READING Purim: Mocking Persia’s Dat and Reaccepting the Torah: Rachel Friedman, The Torah.com, May 3, 2023 — The book of Esther centers on the action and intrigue at the royal court of King Ahasuerus in the Persian capital of Shushan (Susa), repeatedly calling attention to its silliness and eccentricities.[1] Nowhere does the Persian court appear more […]
Friday, March 22nd 2024 / Thursday, March 21st 2024
Philologos Mosaic Magazine, Mar. 16, 2023 “Hamas, however, is not a people. It is an organization. And when Netanyahu compared it to Amalek, he was calling for the extermination of an organization every last one of whose combatants Israel does want to see dead and with good reason.” “The word Amalek is now as common as […]
Stuart Halpern Tablet, Mar. 21, 2024 “A humble young woman thrust onto a stage she never expected to step on to, a scheming and irredeemably wicked antagonist, and a society hoping that by virtue of its faith it might merit heavenly favor have served as the concocted elements of countless American moments.” Twenty-three years […]
Rabbi Haim Jachter Jewish Link, Mar. 7, 2024 “… the Jews took the necessary steps to defend themselves in a situation in which they were in mortal danger. Moreover, the Jews defended themselves in a measured and disciplined manner.” Some critics wrongly label our self-defense on the 13th of Adar as a massacre. This […]
Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing
Citation de la semaine: Ce n’est pas l’antisémitisme des hommes, c’est, avant tout, l’antisémitisme des choses, la xénophobie inhérente du corps social ou du corps économique dont nous souffrons. Vladimir Jabotinsky, Témoignage devant la Commission Peel Chambre des Lords Londres, 11 février 1937 […]
Yoram Hazony Commentary Magazine, March 2016 “Strength attracts strength, and power attracts power. Thus the weak, to the degree they can make themselves seem strong, can attract the support of the strong, thereby becoming strong in reality.” As the book of Esther reaches its climax, the Jews of Persia have turned political defeat into political […]
Thursday, March 21st 2024 / Thursday, March 21st 2024
CANADA DISTINGUISHES ITSELF Fury Over Antisemitic Canadian Newspaper Cartoon Depicting Netanyahu as Blood-Sucking Vampire: Ben Cohen, Algemeiner, Mar. 20, 2024 — One of Canada’s leading French-language news outlets abruptly removed a crudely antisemitic caricature of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from its website on Wednesday morning following a storm of protest from Canadian politicians and Jewish advocates. […]
Thursday, March 21st 2024 / Wednesday, March 20th 2024
Daniel Greenfield Gatestone Institute, Mar. 18, 2024 Five Americans are still being held hostage by Hamas and President Biden has sent no troops to help them, but in his State of the Union address he promised to send troops to build a pier for Gaza. The estimated over 1,000 troops will spend as long as two […]
Pinhas Inbari, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Mar. 18, 2024 Qatar’s inclusion would mean a foothold for Turkey, which has coveted Gaza since the ill-starred naval convoy of the Mavi Marmara, as a means to control the eastern basin of the Mediterranean. The Emirates would reject that out of hand because they are allies, along with […]
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