Isranet Daily Briefing

Monday, February 27th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

ANALYSIS: Harbingers of Coming Israeli Military Action Against Iran: Yochanan Visser, Israel Today, Feb. 26, 2023 Syria’s Civil War: The Descent into Horror: Zachary Laub, Council on Foreign Relations, Feb. 14, 2023 Syria: The War Has Not Ended:  Amir Taheri, Gatestone Institute, Feb. 12, 2023 Syria’s Isolation Hinders Earthquake Relief Effort:  Vivian Salama and Stephen […]

Analysis

Monday, February 27th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Amir Taheri Gatestone Institute, Feb. 12, 2023 “The idea this time was to let the “main players,” that is to say Russia, Turkey and Iran, involved in the Syrian psycho-drama, write a new constitution for the failed state and persuade everyone to sing from the same hymn sheet.”   Since 2019 when the Syrian tragedy […]

Analysis

Monday, February 27th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

  Vivian Salama and Stephen Kalin WSJ, Feb. 8, 2023 “Humanitarian aid that goes through Damascus has been weaponized for years.” The U.S.’s longstanding refusal to engage with Syria’s government, along with limited access to areas hit by catastrophic earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, has raised fears that Syrian victims could be denied lifesaving aid. As images […]

Analysis

Monday, February 27th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Zachary Laub Council on Foreign Relations, Feb. 14, 2023 “The Assads presided over a system that was not just autocratic but kleptocratic, doling out patronage to bind Syrians to the regime.”   Twelve years after protesters in Syria first demonstrated against the four-decade rule of the Assad family, hundreds of thousands of Syrians have been […]

Analysis

Monday, February 27th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Yochanan Visser  Israel Today, Feb. 26, 2023 “Iran further stepped up its psychological war against Israel by publishing a photo of a ballistic missile with the Hebrew text: Mavet L’Yisrael (Death to Israel) written on it.”   Very early Sunday morning last week residents of northeastern Israel again woke up to the sound of low-flying fighter jets. […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Friday, February 24th 2023 / Friday, February 24th 2023

SHABBAT READING   The Torah Scroll: How the Copying Process Became Sacred:  Prof. Emanuel Tov, The Torah.com, Feb. 22, 2023 — The contemporary halakhah (Jewish law) for scribes writing a Torah scroll is exceedingly stringent. The scribe of a Torah scroll should be a God-fearing person. Before beginning to write, as well as before the writing of a holy […]

Analysis

Friday, February 24th 2023

Douglas Murray The Free Press, Feb. 19, 2023 “They can rob you, arrest you, disappear you, perhaps even kill you. Perhaps they can kill almost everyone, or at least make a very good try. But they cannot take a memory once it is embedded like this.”   Why commit anything—and poetry, of all things—to memory? […]

Analysis

Friday, February 24th 2023

Meir Y. Soloveichik Commentary Magazine, March 2023 “Studying both pages, I realized that I was seeing a simple and sublime summation of one of the great works of Jewish thought: Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik’s The Lonely Man of Faith.”   Rabbi Hanina ben Teradyon was executed by the Romans following the fall of the Bar Kokhba revolt […]

Analysis

Friday, February 24th 2023 / Friday, February 24th 2023

David Meir Soloveitchik Mosaic Magazine, Dec. 20, 2018 “… for Rembrandt as for other 17th-century Dutch painters, the aim was to capture not the majesty of the gods but the nature of living, breathing humanity in all of its simultaneous magnificence and lowliness.”   Perhaps the most famous sculpture in the world is Michelangelo’s heroic […]

Analysis

Friday, February 24th 2023 / Friday, February 24th 2023

Stuart Schoffman Jewish Review of Books, Feb. 12, 2019 “There the learned consensus stands: Lincoln spoke to Wise metaphorically, and the Jewish roots are merely a tantalizing rumor, like Ulysses S. Grant keeping kosher.” In my Jerusalem neighborhood, there are three quiet streets named for historic Hebrew newspapers. Ha-Melitz (The Advocate), founded in 1860 in Odessa, fostered […]

Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing

Thursday, February 23rd 2023 / Tuesday, October 31st 2023

Citation de la semaine:  Dans la guerre, il y a une chose attractive : c’est le défilé de la victoire. L’emmerdant c’est avant. ” Michel Audiard Table des Matières  Les efforts d’Israël pour se rapprocher de l’Arabie saoudite et faire face à l’Iran  TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF19 février 2023, Conférence de Munich: Galant dénonce les […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Thursday, February 23rd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

ALMOST THERE? Iran’s Uranium Processing Has Almost Reached Weapons-Grade Nuclear Purity: Inspectors: Bradford Betz, Fox News, Feb. 19, 2023 — International atomic inspectors last week discovered that Iran has accumulated uranium enriched to levels just shy of what is needed for a nuclear weapon, according to a new report.   Israel: 84% Enrichment Means It’s Now or Never […]