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Monday, July 31st 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Hussein Aboubakr Mansour Emet, July 20, 2023 “Unlike what hot-headed and ill-tempered American conservative populists say, they do not hate America, and they do not work for America’s enemies, but they are merely ambivalent to what we think America represents.” It may seem odd that a single mid-level US government bureaucrat has collected a large […]

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Monday, July 31st 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Lee Smith Tablet, July 23, 2023 “Malley must have shared something really bad with his Iranian associates because otherwise the Tehran Times account makes no sense.”   In late June, reports started circulating that White House heavy Robert Malley had been suspended from his job in the Joe Biden administration. That was surprising. Before he was pushed […]

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Friday, July 28th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

COMPLEX VIVID PORTRAIT                            Oppenheimer’ Review: A Man for Our Time:  Manohla Dargis, NY Times, July 19, 2023 — “Oppenheimer,” Christopher Nolan’s staggering film about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the man known as “the father of the atomic bomb,” condenses a titanic shift in […]

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Friday, July 28th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

PJ Grisar The Jewish News of North California, July 19, 2023 “Nolan frames the biography with two inquisitions: Oppenheimer’s infamous AEC hearing in 1954, which saw him lose his security clearance; and Strauss’ 1959 grilling in the Senate, where he was denied confirmation as Eisenhower’s secretary of commerce — largely due to his treatment of […]

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Friday, July 28th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Megan McCluskey TIME, July 21, 2023 “Antisemitism impacted him throughout his time studying at Harvard, and later, amid the Nazis’ rise to power in Germany, changed the way he engaged with his Jewishness.”   After months of building anticipation, writer-director Christopher Nolan’s new movie Oppenheimer arrived in theaters Friday, kickstarting an opening weekend where it’s expected to collect around $50 […]

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Friday, July 28th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

David Mikics Tablet, July 25, 2023 “Oppenheimer was too mercurial to ever win the Nobel Prize.”   “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” These dreadful words are by now familiar to many. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the A-bomb, said he thought of this line from the Bhagavad Gita during Trinity, the first atomic […]

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Friday, July 28th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Andy Kifer Smithsonian Magazine, July 18, 2023 “I don’t know how he had acquired this facility for handling people. Those who knew him well were really surprised.” Since the end of World War II, historians and artists alike have been fascinated by the brilliant, enigmatic J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who led the Manhattan Project […]

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Thursday, July 27th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

AN UNLUCKY TIME Tisha B’Av: On What Day Were the Jerusalem Temples Destroyed?:  Dr. Rabbi Zev Farber, The Torah.com, July 20, 2018 — The 9th of Av is described in Rabbinic Jewish sources as the day on which both temples were destroyed. Any Tears for Tisha B’Av? Reflections on a Day of Mourning—and Hope:  Mark […]

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Thursday, July 27th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Gil Troy JNS, Aug. 7, 2022 “If a people possesses something old and profound, which can educate man and train him for his future tasks, is it truly revolutionary to despise it and become estranged from it?”   It’s become an annual modern ritual. Every summer, before Tisha B’Av, the ninth of the Hebrew month […]

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Thursday, July 27th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks The Rabbi Sacks Legacy, July 28, 2014 “Because Jews throughout history have recognised tyranny for what it is, and have refused to be intimidated by power, threat, terror and fear. Somehow, in the most dangerous region of the world, Israel has created a society of freedom and order: a free press, […]

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Thursday, July 27th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Rabbi Eliyahu Fink Orthodox Union, Aug. 5, 2014 “The simple version of the Roman conquest of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. is a story of superior Roman forces overwhelming a puny Jewish army. Our defeat was inevitable. But the siege and subsequent fall of Jerusalem to the Roman legions were far more dramatic and much more […]

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Thursday, July 27th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Mark Raven Commentary Magazine, August 1951 “It was the Jew’s burden—and still is—to turn over in his soul an insoluble problem of history: how could one people above all others become heir to such sorrow?”   This August 12th will be celebrated as Tisha B’av—the ninth day of the Jewish month of Av—the second most […]