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Monday, March 6th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

Meir Y. Soloveitchik Commentary Magazine, March 2020   “What is Mordecai’s true identity? What is Esther’s?” The biblical Book of Esther and Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice are opposites. One describes the Jewish triumph over anti-Semitism, the other the anti-Semite’s triumph over the Jew. Yet there are similarities between the two tales. Both emphasize inversions, a turning […]

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Monday, March 6th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

  Rokhl Kafrissen Tablet, Feb. 28, 2023   “It’s hard to imagine what it would have been like, not only to have been a child watching the Holocaust unfold from afar, but immediately thereafter, watching the perilous fight for a Jewish state, surrounded, as this text makes clear, by yet more enemies, more Hamans, intent […]

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Monday, March 6th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Meir Soloveitchik NY Times, Mar. 8, 2020   “Precisely because of the constancy of Jewish vulnerability, we glorify Esther’s initiative, courage, and wisdom to inculcate these same virtues in our posterity.”   A perplexing paradox lies at the heart of Purim, the holiday celebrated this week by Jews around the world. No day is more […]

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Monday, March 6th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

  Rabbi Ari Kahn Orthodox Union, Mar. 20, 2019   “The profile of Achashverosh that emerges is of a weak personality tormented by the objects of his own desire.”   Working in the barn from the break of dawn was exhausting. Cleaning the barn, sweeping the refuse, and caring for the horses had become his […]

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Friday, March 3rd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Shabbat reading: The Torah Is Sanctioned by God: In the Footsteps of the Abravanel:  Rabbi Avi Weiss, The Torah.com, Feb. 9, 2023 — The Book of Deuteronomy poses a unique challenge for those who believe that God authored the Torah: It is presented as an address by Moses! This includes the book’s many laws, which […]

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Friday, March 3rd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

  Annette Poizner, Stacey Love, Andria Spindel  et al  Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism, Feb. 3, 2023   “When the far left think they are “punching up” and  “sticking  it  to  the  rich,”  they  are  now  mimicking  the  type  of  trope  that  motored  barbaric antisemitism in the past and feeds into today’s  target:  people  of  white  privilege.” Owing […]

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Friday, March 3rd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

  Annette Poisoner Times of Israel, July 27, 2022 “We are learning about … students, forced to write papers that parrot the ideologies taught in school, finding themselves betraying their Jewish values or risk being mocked for expressing perspectives which differ from the school party line.”  A recent study analyzes the Twitter feeds of 741 Diversity, Equity & […]

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Friday, March 3rd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

  Dion J. Pierre Algemeiner, Feb. 27, 2023   “Further research is required to better understand the lived experience of these students, the stressors they face, and the extent of the problems such as those identified herein. This study continues. Students are invited to share their experiences while maintaining anonymity.” Antisemitism in Canadian social work […]

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Friday, March 3rd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

  Richard Klagsbrun Aish, No Date   “Students are in a vulnerable position and dread officially attaching their name to complaints against a professor in a program like Social Work. Aside from determining grades, they fear one bad word from a professor to a social agency can eliminate their employment prospects.” Picture the following: A […]

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Thursday, March 2nd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

WATCH:Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: One Year Later:  A Conversation with Dara Massicot, Liana Fix and Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, Feb. 27, 2023 — Foreign Affairs Editor Dan Kurtz-Phelan and authors, Dara Massicot, Liana Fix and Michael Kimmage mark the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine Is the West’s War Now:  Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, Feb. […]

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Thursday, March 2nd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Yaroslav Trofimov WSJ, Feb. 25, 2023  “The Biden administration took a gradualist approach to arming Ukraine that White House officials have described as ‘boiling the frog.’” Two days before the Russian invasion of his country, on Feb. 22, 2022, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba was welcomed to the White House. As he greeted President Biden and senior […]

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Thursday, March 2nd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

  Guy Taylor Washington Times, Feb. 20, 2023 Part Two: Russian critics emerge to shred Putin’s strategy Part Three: Fallout from Russia-Ukraine war reshapes global order “The war is not going to end in April 2022, as everyone was expecting last February, [and] it’s extremely likely that it’s not going to end in April 2023.” More than […]