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Monday, June 12th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

J.E. Dyer The Optimistic Conservative, June 10, 2023 “… this entire thing was the work of the same institutions, and in many cases the same people, and was clearly not a reaction to anything Trump did, but a series of plans developed to simply make up cases against Trump and try to make them stick.”   On 4 June […]

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Monday, June 12th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Aaron Maté  RealClearInvestigations, June 6, 2023 “The FBI’s dependency on CrowdStrike – and, indeed, the entire basis for the Russiagate probe ‒ was further called into question when it emerged that the firm’s president had admitted under oath that it “did not have concrete evidence” of Russian hacking. Shawn Henry, a former close FBI colleague of Directors […]

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Friday, June 9th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

SHABBAT READING From Despair to Hope:  Beha’alotecha . 5776 – 5783 – The Rabbi Sacks Legacy, Covenant & Conversation — There have been times when one passage in this week’s parsha was, for me, little less than lifesaving. No leadership position is easy. Leading Jews is harder still. And spiritual leadership can be hardest of […]

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Friday, June 9th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Nir Hasson Haaretz, Mar. 21, 2017 “I think about these bowls as a kind of system of multi-lock doors with several bolts. First you draw the figure you want to get rid of and then you bind it in a depiction and bind it in words. The final lock is that you turn it over […]

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Friday, June 9th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Dr. Nicole L. Tilford The Torah.com, Apr. 28, 2022 “Belief in the evil eye relies on a physiological understanding of the eye that is quite different from our own.”   Walk into a traditional gift shop around the Mediterranean, and you might see a collection of brightly colored necklaces or keychains or pottery items with […]

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Friday, June 9th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Rabbi Menachem Weiman Aish, no date “The Shema, the declaration of one God, is what finally vanquishes the demon.”   Who knew that Judaism could scare the bejeebers out of you? The movie The Vigil shows it can. This unnerving film is frightening and thought provoking, and has a surprisingly authentic feel true to observant Judaism. And […]

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Friday, June 9th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Maoz Kahana Tablet, May 31, 2023 “According to the Hatam Sofer, therefore, the verses in Leviticus that allude to the salamander cannot indicate a creature that is not part of the natural order, even if all the details of its existence are wondrous and magical.”   In 1651 the rabbi-politician-philosopher and ex-converso Menashe ben Israel […]

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Thursday, June 8th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

  MEDIA COLLUSION Turkey and the Power of Controlling the Narrative: Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune/ TNS, May 23, 2023 — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan defied all expectations when he won nearly half the vote in Turkey’s election on Sunday. This means he’ll face a presidential runoff for the first time, but he looks poised to […]

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Thursday, June 8th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post, May 29, 2023 “Ankara’s politics of stoking tensions and then climbing down and asserting that tensions lead to respect may be out of step with the modern Middle East.”   With Turkey’s elections now decided and the unsurprising victory of the long-time ruling AKP Party and its leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Israel will […]

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Thursday, June 8th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Jonathan Spyer Middle East Forum, June 2, 2023 “The Turkish leader has abandoned his commitment to Sunni uprisings because there are currently no uprisings to support.”   Sitting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan comfortably defeated opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu in this week’s runoff vote in the Turkish presidential election. The AKP leader, who has ruled Turkey since 2002, secured […]

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Thursday, June 8th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Ofra Bengio INSS Insight No. 1735, June 6, 2023 “The approach and modus operandi of the main Kurdish organization, the underground PKK, founded in the 1970s, are in effect a mirror image of those of Erdogan’s.”   Erdogan’s Strategy In his approach toward the Kurdish issue, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has demonstrated initiative and […]

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Thursday, June 8th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Soner Cagaptay Foreign Affairs, May 29, 2023 “Erdogan’s entente with Putin has already had significant consequences for the West.”   In May 28, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish leader “who never loses elections,” won the runoff of Turkey’s presidential poll against his opponent, Kemal Kilicdaroglu. Erdogan has been at Turkey’s helm since 2003, first as […]