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Friday, February 3rd 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

         SHABBAT READING Amalek: A Pawn in the Rivalry Between Saul and David’s Legacy:  Dr. Gili Kugler, The Torah.com, Mar. 9, 2022 — Soon after their departure from Egypt, the Israelites are attacked at Rephidim by the Amalekites, a semi-nomadic people (Exod 17:8).[1] After the Israelites defeat their attackers,[2] YHWH paradoxically commands Moses to write […]

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Friday, February 3rd 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

Jerry C. Davis WSJ, Jan. 26, 2023 “America was divided then, and it is divided now. This resolution, which is 50 years overdue, acknowledges this stain on American honor.” The Vietnam War ended with the signing of the Paris Peace Accords on Jan. 27, 1973. More than 50,000 Americans were killed in the war, and […]

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Friday, February 3rd 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

 Gershom Gorenberg, The VVA Veteran, January/February 2012 “Israel will not be alone unless it decides to go alone.” In other words: Don’t attack; we can’t back you up.”   “You will certainly note,” Hal Saunders said, “that we had another problem on the other side of the world.” Saunders spoke in the quiet voice of […]

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Friday, February 3rd 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

Dominic Sandbrook UnHerd, Jan. 23, 2023 “… some decided not only that American intervention in Vietnam had been a mistake, but that all interventions abroad must be illegitimate or misguided. American isolationism has a long history, but never has it enjoyed a bigger boost than it did in the early Seventies.” In the course of his troubled presidency, […]

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Friday, February 3rd 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

Barton Swain WSJ, Jan. 20, 2023 “… in his view, America won—only in a different way. We stopped communism, which didn’t advance in Indochina any further than it reached in 1975.” When I was a teenager in the 1980s, popular culture had basically one message on the Vietnam War: that it was conceived in American arrogance, […]

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Friday, February 3rd 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

Mara Oliva The Conversation, Jan. 9, 2023 “Military and government officials in both the Bush and Obama administrations deliberately misrepresented conditions in Afghanistan to appease an American public opinion suffering from war fatigue.”   2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the US withdrawal from Vietnam and the war still casts long shadows over American life. The cost […]

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Thursday, February 2nd 2023 / Tuesday, October 31st 2023

Citation de la semaine:  « Le terrorisme est exécuté délibérément, de sang-froid et de manière calculée. Les objectifs déclarés du terroriste peuvent changer d’un endroit à l’autre. Il est censé se battre pour remédier à des injustices – sociales, religieuses, nationales, raciales. Mais pour tous ces problèmes, sa seule solution est la démolition de la […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Thursday, February 2nd 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

“it is difficult for the Jewish community to take UofT’s apology for the school’s history of antisemitism seriously at the same time that the university is timorous in combating antisemitism among the TFOM faculty – as exemplified by a letter, signed by 45 faculty members, the minority of whom are Jewish, sent to the UofT’s […]

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Thursday, February 2nd 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

Dominic Green WSJ, Jan. 24, 2023   “… these schools function as think tanks, facilitating valuable exchanges between academic theorists and real-world practitioners.” Should Kenneth Roth, recently retired executive director of Human Rights Watch, receive a fellowship at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government? In late July, the Kennedy School’s dean, Doug Elmendorf, rejected Mr. Roth’s […]

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Thursday, February 2nd 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

  Alexander Joffe Algemeiner, Feb. 1, 2023 “By characterizing antisemitic harassment as “academic freedom” and framing complaints as mere unhappiness regarding “discourse on difficult topics,” the university dismissed concerns in a manner unique to Jewish issues.”   As 2023 begins, several trends related to the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement have become clear. On […]

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Thursday, February 2nd 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

  Andrew Lapin Israel National News, Jan 31, 2023   “The program looks wholly insensitive.  Instead of being a commemoration of the Holocaust, it looks like it’s turning into an opportunity for celebration.” An event that took place at a Virginia university Thursday night to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day was scheduled to feature lectures […]

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Thursday, February 2nd 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

Barbara Kay Epoch Times, Jan. 23, 2023 “The troubling reality is that there isn’t to my knowledge a single organization dedicated to Palestinian rights that accepts Israel’s legitimacy as a nation, or that accepts an attachment to their ancient homeland as a legitimate component of Jewish identity.” On January 27, 1945, the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, […]