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Libya Should Be Grateful Israel Even Considered Diplomatic Ties

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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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Daily Briefing: ROSH HASHANAH: “CROWNING G-D AND DEFEATING SIN”

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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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Happy Is the People Who Knows the Blast

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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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Akedat Hannah

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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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The Birthday of the World:Rosh Hashanah’s Meanings

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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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The Challenge of Jewish Repentance

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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, […]

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Communiqué: Petite rétrospective de l’année qui s’achève

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Citation de la semaine: “A nouvel an, nouvel élan.” Christelle Heurtault _________________________________________________________________                                          Table des Matières ________________________________________________________________________ Roch Hachana célèbre l’année 5784 : quelles traditions ?            Journal des Femmes, 07/09/23 Opinion […]

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Daily Briefing: JEWISH PROGRESSIVES THREATEN LIBERAL-JEWISH ALLIANCE

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SHABBAT READING   We Are What We Remember:  KI TAVO • 5776, 5783:  Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Rabbi Sacks Legacy — One reason religion has survived in the modern world despite four centuries of secularisation is that it answers the three questions every reflective human being will ask at some time in his or her life: Who am I? […]

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The Takeover

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Samuel J. Abrams Tablet, Aug. 30, 2023 “Today, the preeminence of the Jewish-liberal alliance is threatened not from the right but by the rising power and increasing population of Jewish progressives.”   For the past century, American Jews have consistently leaned to the left of most other Americans. Exceptions, like Orthodox Jews or recent immigrants, […]

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Did US Jews Wake Up on the Wrong Side of ‘Woke’ Progressive Politics?

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Luke Tress Times of Israel, Dec. 28, 2022 “Jews fare better in open, liberal environments, and less well in closed, illiberal environments. There is nothing inherent about illiberalism spawning antisemitism, but there is — given Jewish history — something inevitable about it.”   In May 2021, as Israel again battled terrorists in the Gaza Strip, […]

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Building a Progressive Tower of Babel

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David Bernstein Quillette, Oct. 13, 2022 ”At the end of the meeting, one of the organizers drew the black participants into a circle. She preached, “I was blind but now I am Woke.” The participants repeated the chant and loudly proclaimed “Amen.” At this point, I realized that the call to be woke was, in fact, a […]

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How Can Jews Fight Progressive Antisemitism? – Opinion

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Naya Lekhet Jerusalem Post, Aug. 13, 2023 “… progressivism has a great response to this point, which in many ways is a contradiction to being progressive and a Zionist: in a hierarchy of marginalization, Jews are near the bottom. We don’t get to be free from persecution at the cost of a higher ranked “persecuted” […]

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