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Friday, April 14th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

YHWH Battles the Egyptians with a Fiery Cloud:  Dr. David Ben-Gad HaCohen, The Torah.com, Apr. 7, 2023 — After the Israelites leave Egypt, the travel east to the border of the wilderness. שמות יג:כ וַיִּסְעוּ מִסֻּכֹּת וַיַּחֲנוּ בְאֵתָם בִּקְצֵה הַמִּדְבָּר.. Exod 13:20 They set out from Sukkot, and encamped at Etham, at the edge of the wilderness… […]

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Friday, April 14th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Ronen Bergman, Patrick Kingsley and Isabel Kershner NYTimes, Apr. 8, 2023 “Israeli political commentators said on Sunday that the leaked assessment appeared to confuse the notions of “encouraging” and “allowing,” and to mix up the actions of former Mossad employees with those of current employees.”   The Israeli government issued a statement on Sunday firmly […]

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Friday, April 14th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Yonah Jeremy Bob Jerusalem Post, Apr. 9, 2023 “If The New York Times report and the American intelligence cables are disinformation, they could have been concocted by Russian intelligence and trumpeted by elements in Israel who wish to discredit the protest movement.”   A debate raged throughout the day on Sunday about the veracity of what appeared […]

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Friday, April 14th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Melanie Phillips JNS, Mar. 30, 2023 “Whatever individual protesters may have told themselves, the real purpose of the uprising was not to stop judicial reform. It was to get rid of Netanyahu.”     Whatever one thinks about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, any true Israeli patriot will surely react viscerally to U.S. President Joe […]

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Friday, April 14th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Elliot Kaufman WSJ, Mar. 30, 2023 “He was met immediately with a revolt not of Israel’s underclass, but its overclass. The military leadership threw its weight against the reform. The federation of labor unions called a general strike and shut down the major airport, much of the economy and the medical system, and even Israeli […]

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Tuesday, April 11th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

INCREASING TIES WATCH:  Ruth Wisse Reflects on Anti-Semitism, the University, and American Society, Free as a Jew: Mosaic Magazine, Feb. 6, 2023  — In an in-depth discussion with Bari Weiss, drawn from her memoir Free as Jew (originally published in Mosaic), Ruth R. Wisse discusses her own remarkable life, the state of American Jewry today, the decline of America’s universities, the perils […]

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Tuesday, April 11th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Sheryl Abbey Jerusalem Post, Apr. 5, 2023 “Sometimes you need just one fate.” Wearing his trademark khakis, clogs and wide felt hat, artist Gunter Demnig angled out of his van and approached those of us gathered outside an old half-timbered house. Local historian Michael Schroeder stepped forward to greet him. “Yes, everything is in order,” he assured […]

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Tuesday, April 11th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Moshe Phillips Isranet, Mar. 30, 2023 “And We Are Not Saved” is at once a bitter, provocative, and emotional work. It is unlike any other Holocaust memoir in its scope, attitude, or conclusions.”   As we approach the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising there can be no doubt that the mainstream media will […]

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Tuesday, April 11th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Samuel Rubinstein UnHerd, Mar. 9, 2023 “The problem with ‘Holocaust-as-civics-lesson’, like the problem of treating the collapse of Weimar Germany as a parable, is that it means that the Holocaust has to be ‘updated’ to reflect present political concerns.”   It’s like clockwork. Every few months the government announces a new plan to tighten immigration […]

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Tuesday, April 11th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Ben Cohen JNS, Feb. 10, 2023 “… while antisemitic ideology isn’t very imaginative, it compensates for that weakness by being highly adaptive—able to reinvent its obsession with supposed Jewish malignancy in almost any situation and winning supporters accordingly.”   In the world of Jewish advocacy, the “working definition” of antisemitism endorsed by the International Holocaust Remembrance […]

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Monday, April 10th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

NO CLEAR ANSWERS Who Wrote the Ancient Passover Haggadah?:  Rabbi Ari Enkin, Algemeiner, Mar. 25, 2020 — Take a look at the inside cover of your Haggadah – you won’t find the name of any author! So how did we get the Haggadah that we have today? ____________________________________________________  WHAT’S TO BE DONE? INSS Experts on the Escalation in […]

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Monday, April 10th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Seth Frantzman Jerusalem Post, Apr. 9, 2023 “The fact that Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh flew to Lebanon on April 5, a day before 34 rockets were fired at Israel from there, shows how it has increased its presence.”   A week of attacks on Israel, including rockets fired from Lebanon, Gaza and Syria, represents the manifestation […]