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Thursday, September 21st 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Tevi Troy and Noam Wasserman First Things, Sept. 14, 2023   “Rabbi Shapiro had a bold vision for maintaining an ancient tradition and furthering Jewish unity at a time of international upheaval.” This Friday, September 15, marks Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. This year, however, Rosh Hashanah also marks the 100th anniversary of the […]

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Wednesday, September 20th 2023

                WEEKLY QUOTES   Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara sees the Basic Law amendment: The Government as “an extreme case of abuse of the constituent authority, where the amendment to the Basic Law of the Government before us was made for a distinct personal purpose, with the aim of influencing a […]

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Tuesday, September 19th 2023 / Tuesday, October 31st 2023

CYNICISM ABIDES Recalling ‘Cruelty’ Of Former Homeland, Some Libyan Jews Cast Wary Eye on Contacts:  Gianluca Pacchiani, Times of Israel, Aug. 29, 2023 — From his home in the coastal Israeli city of Bat Yam, Pedatzur Ben-Attiya recalled a time when he used to recruit “spies” to send into Libya. ________________________________________________________ Peace with Libya is […]

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Tuesday, September 19th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Gregory Aftandilian Arab Center Washington, DC, Sept. 13, 2023  “Thousands of Libyan youths closed down highways and burned tires and Israeli flags.”   The controversy and severe public backlash surrounding news of a late-August meeting between the Libyan and Israeli foreign ministers in Rome is symptomatic of the fact that Libya’s political class is entirely […]

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Tuesday, September 19th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Elis Gjevori Middle East Eye, Aug. 29, 2023 ‘I wouldn’t say Israel has gone to great lengths to go up to and beg these actors, it was more the other way around.’   Israeli ties with Libyan political actors are not a secret, in fact they go back at least a decade. But the public and official disclosure […]

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Tuesday, September 19th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Gianluca Pacchiani Times of Israel, Aug. 28, 2023 “One of the ambitions of today’s leaders is to gain access to Israel’s scientific advances and world-renowned technology for irrigation and agriculture, in the way Morocco did.”   On Sunday, Israel announced that Foreign Minister Eli Cohen met with his Libyan counterpart, Najla Mangoush, last week in […]

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Tuesday, September 19th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Avi Benlolo National Post, Sept. 1, 2023 “To put this into perspective, in 2021, Libya’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was $42.82 billion USD. In comparison, Israel’s GDP for the same year was $488.5 billion USD. Israel’s economy is 11.4 times larger than Libya’s.”   Headlines in the media this week accused Israel of provoking a […]

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Thursday, September 14th 2023 / Tuesday, October 31st 2023

SHABBAT READING Akeda and Rosh Hashanah: Invoking the Original Oath God Was Forced to Make:  Prof. Rabbi David R. Blumenthal, The Torah.com, Sept. 14, 2023 The rabbis link the Akeda with forgiveness of sins for the Jewish people (Bereishit Rabba56:10, taken up in many selichot): Rabbi Bibi the Great said in the name of Rabbi Yochanan: Abraham said […]

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Thursday, September 14th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Rabbi Moshe Hayim Efrayim of Sudilkov and Eitan P. Fishbane Jewish Review of Books, Fall 2019 “The sound of the shofar should—in a very precise theological sense—blast open the listener’s spiritual consciousness. Moreover, listening to the shofar should initiate or reinitiate an attitude of attentive wonder toward the world on the part of the Hasid, […]

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Thursday, September 14th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Kate Roozansky Jewish Review of Books, Sept. 12, 2023   “After she gives him up, Hannah sings, “my horn (karni) exults in the Lord,” but her horn is only metaphorical—the boy is gone, there is no ram (1 Sam 2:1). Of course, Hannah visits Samuel at Shilo every year, but this means she also leaves […]

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Thursday, September 14th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Ernst Simon Commentary Magazine, September 1955 “Today the “Days of Awe” are an embarrassment for most of us because we can give them neither a national, a ritual, nor a purely natural meaning.”   The calendar, with its rhythmic division of the year, its beginning and its end, its workdays, rest days and holidays, provides […]

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Thursday, September 14th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks The Rabbi Sacks Legacy, September 2017 “The trouble is, of course, that faced with choice, we often make the wrong one.”   The Ten Days of Repentance are the holy of holies of Jewish time. They begin this Wednesday evening with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and culminate 10 days later with Yom Kippur, […]