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Daily Briefing: HENRY KISSINGER TURNS 100: HIS CONTROVERSIAL RECORD EXAMINED

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A SON’S PRAISE  My Father, Henry Kissinger, is Turning 100. This is his Guide to Longevity.:  David Kissinger,  Washington Post, May 25, 2023 — On Saturday, my father, Henry Kissinger, celebrates his 100th birthday. This might have an air of inevitability for anyone familiar with his force of character and love of historical symbolism. Not only […]

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Honouring Henry Kissinger on his 100th birthday – opinion

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David M. Weinberg Jerusalem Post, May 24, 2023 “The delay in weapons supply to Israel on days two through six of the war cannot be attributed to Kissinger, but rather to then-defense secretary James Schlesinger, along with unfriendly European leaders who refused stopover landing rights for planes carrying supplies for Israel.”   Even as he […]

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Kissinger’s Final Warning

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Thomas Fazi UnHerd, May 24, 2023 “Kissinger’s defenders focus on his diplomatic achievements, which are hard to dispute.”    How one chooses to celebrate Kissinger’s Century depends on where you sit in the “Kissinger wars”. To his detractors, Henry Kissinger was an imperialist who pursued US global supremacy with unmatched ruthlessness and cynicism. To his supporters, […]

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U.S. SECY. OF STATE DR. HENRY KISSINGER SPEAKING AT BEN GURION AIRPORT DURING HIS 5-NATION WHIRLWIND TOUR IN THE MIDDLE EAST, BEN GURION AIRPORT.- Flickr

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The Middle East According to Kissinger

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Oded Eran INSS, November 2022 “Reading Indyk’s book left me no doubt that his first aim in writing the work is the desire to change opinions, beliefs, and impressions that have emerged regarding the book’s subject matter due to his own experience in Israel during the Yom Kippur War in 1973.”   Indyk, Martin. Master […]

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Henry Kissinger Survey the World as He Turns 100

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Tunku Varadarajan WSJ, May 26, 2023 “What Mr. Kissinger sees when he looks at the world today is “disorder.” Eight years—that’s all the time Henry Kissinger was in public office. From January 1969 to January 1977, Mr. Kissinger was first national security adviser and secretary of state under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, holding both titles concurrently for more […]

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Daily Briefing: SHAVUOT: A BALANCE OF REVELATION AND REVOLUTION

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Podcast: Jon Levenson on the Moral Force of the Book of Ruth:  Jon Levenson and Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, June 3, 2022 — Beginning Saturday night [this year, Thur. night], the Jewish people will celebrate the holiday of Shavuot. During the festival, Jews traditionally study the book of Ruth, the biblical text that tells the story of […]

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Shavuot: Between Revelation and Revolution – Comment

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Eli Kavon Jerusalem Post, May 31, 2022 “The Sinaic revolution, by demanding a belief in one God, without form or shape, who was the sole creator of the universe, who willed the cosmos into existence and invested humanity with the power to choose to do good or evil, overturned the existing belief systems of great […]

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The Torah forms the basis and foundation of Judaism . The first five books known as "Five Books of Moses" correspond to Torah.- Wikipedia

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Land or Torah:  What Binds Israel as a Nation?

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Dr. Tzvi Novick The Torah.com, May 27, 2020 “What, ultimately, is the elemental glue that binds Israel into a people?” Mutual Covenantal Responsibility at Sinai The famous rabbinic dictum has it that כל ישראל ערבים זה בזה “all Israelites are guarantors one for the other,” or in other words, that each is responsible to “pay” […]

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After Passover, Shavuot Comes Along and Shakes the Foundations of Existence

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Shaul Magid Times of Israel, May 23, 2023 “As I understand Shagar, he is suggesting that revelation changes everything. But while Badiou suggested that the event changes everything by destroying what came before, Shagar suggests that what existed before the event is not destroyed, but transformed by it.”   With the conclusion of Passover last […]

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Continuity Requires Religion

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  Elliot J.  Cosgrove Sapir, Vol 3, Autumn 2021   “Mitzvot are the sacred shibboleths by which Jews build conscious community.”   For a people as numerically modest as the Jews, we have more than our fair share of civic, cultural, and advocacy organizations in service of Jewish continuity. From historical societies to Holocaust memorials, […]

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WEDNESDAY’S “NEWS OF THE WEEK IN REVIEW

                   MEDIA-OCRITY Unanswered Questions About Trump and Russia:  Peggy Noonan, WSJ, May 18, 2023   “[The Durham Report on the FBI] sounds about right. Yet I still don’t know what to think about Trump/Russia and am not satisfied we’ll ever fully understand it . . . Mr. […]

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Daily Briefing: ANTISEMITISM IN CANADA TRANSCENDS PARTISANSHIP

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INCREASING TIES LISTEN:  Antisemitic Incidents Seem Disproportionately High in Canada. How Is This Possible?:  Canadian Jewish News, May 1, 2023 — When B’nai Brith released its annual antisemitism report on April 17, documenting 2,769 incidents of Jew hatred in Canada last year, we wondered why the numbers were so high. After all, the Canadian government’s […]

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