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Sunday, June 4th 2023 / Sunday, June 4th 2023

Citation de la semaine:  “Si l’on t’invite à table servie, un refus te fera prendre pour un ingrat.” Proverbe turc  ________________________________________________________________        Table des Matières   Shimon Sherman. Que signifie l’élection de la Turquie pour Israël ?  Tribune Juive, 20 mai 2023 La course présidentielle en Turquie : analyse des enjeux internes et internationaux […]

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Friday, June 2nd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

SHABBAT READING Birkat Kohanim: The Magic of a Blessing:  Prof. Shawna Dolansky, The Torah.com, Jan. 15, 2016 — Many of us are familiar with the priestly benediction (birkat hakohanim) from the liturgy, found in Numbers 6:24-26. A sensational archaeological find by Gabriel Barkay in 1979 demonstrates the antiquity of this blessing at least as far back […]

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Friday, June 2nd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Yair Rosenberg The Atlantic, May 16, 2023 “These days, if you want to find the latest conspiracy theories trending on Twitter, the easiest thing to do is to check tweets Elon Musk replies to, you’ll find most of them.”   Last night, Elon Musk made two rookie social-media mistakes: He tweeted after 10 p.m., and […]

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Friday, June 2nd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Alan M. Dershowitz WSJ, May 21, 2023 “Every Wednesday morning at 8 o’clock, a group at Human Rights Watch got together and discussed issues with the managers. I was an active participant in that group, and human rights remains an important element of my foundation’s current activities.”   Elon Musk has been accused of anti-Semitism because […]

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Friday, June 2nd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Christiaan Hetzner Fortune, May 16, 2023 “The comparison to Magneto is problematic to contemporary comics fans, as the character has joined the roster of the X-Men multiple times, most recently in 2019, when (spoiler alert) he co-founded a breakaway mutant island nation called Krakoa, which some critics have compared to Israel.”    Elon Musk lashed […]

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Friday, June 2nd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Caroline Glick Algemeiner, May 21, 2023 “Demonizing all of Soros’s critics as antisemites is not only an insult to Jews. It is a way of denying Jews the language to defend themselves against real antisemites like Soros.”   One of the key characteristics of our difficult times is the way in which the progressive left […]

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

‘The Soldier’s Truth’ Review:  Ernie Pyle, at the Front:  Ben Yagoda,WSJ, May 24, 2023 The Price of Victory: Stanley Goldfarb, Washington Free Beacon, May 29, 2023 Buried Under the Stars:  Jamie Betesh Carter, Tablet, May 25, 2023 The Anonymous Postcard That Inspired a French Best-Seller:  Leslie Camhi, New Yorker, May 11, 2023 For Further Reference: […]

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

Leslie Camhi New Yorker, May 11, 2023 “As I was writing, I had the feeling that I was living in all these different periods at once. It was as if I had entered into a different relationship with time.”   The Postcard,” a novel by the French author Anne Berest, opens on a snowy morning […]

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

Jamie Betesh Carter Tablet, May 25, 2023 “It was around this time that we learned this wasn’t an isolated incident. It turns out there are 13 WWII cemeteries, and in at least 12 of them there are hundreds of Jewish soldiers buried under crosses, mistakenly.”   When Mariellen Miller was a child growing up in […]

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

Stanley Goldfarb Washington Free Beacon, May 29, 2023 “The brutality of the fighting is not just portrayed as a glimpse into the darkness that takes over men’s souls in war but also is profoundly moving as he describes the commitment and valor of the Americans.”   REVIEW:  To the End of the Earth: The US […]

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

‘ Ben Yagoda WSJ, May 24, 2023 “I picked up a pocket Bible with a soldier’s name in it, and put it in my jacket. I carried it half a mile or so and then put it back down on the beach. I don’t know why I picked it up, or why I put it […]

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Wednesday, May 31st 2023 / Wednesday, May 31st 2023

      WEEKLY QUOTES   “All Israeli occupation settlements built on the land of the State of Palestine, including the formerly evacuated Homesh settlement in the north of the West Bank, are illegal.” — Nabil Abu Rudeineh, the spokesperson for PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas, in a statement responding to the relocation of the Homesh Yeshiva to a […]