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Thursday, October 20th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Nancy A. Youssef and Vivian Salama WSJ, Oct. 12, 2022 “We see no reason why American troops and contractors should continue to provide this service to countries that are actively working against us,” the legislators wrote in a statement, adding that Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. were effectively aiding Russian President Vladimir Putin in […]
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Andrew C. McCarthy National Review, Oct. 8, 2022 “The Arab Spring, in conjunction with the Muslim Middle East’s internecine bloodletting that followed the American exit from Iraq and continued unabated in the barbaric war in Syria, reshuffled the Islamist deck. The Saudi regime and the Brotherhood became bitter enemies.” ‘We were hoping to establish […]
Brandon J. Weich Washington Times, Oct. 17, 2022 “Clearly, Mr. Biden cannot tell friends from foes. Namely, Iran is a foe whereas Saudi Arabia, for all its imperfections, is a friend. Mr. Biden’s failure to recognize this means the United States is being led to a very dangerous place in its relations with the Middle East.” […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Wednesday, October 19th 2022 / Wednesday, October 19th 2022
WEEKLY QUOTES “… we have seen in the last year the alternative to the Likud leadership. Unfortunately, we see that there is a lack of experience in this current government. … Take, for example, what is happening with Lebanon, the shameful [maritime border] agreement that is being negotiated. Basically, we saw that Prime Minister [Yair] Lapid […]
Friday, October 14th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
What Are We Celebrating on Simchas Torah?: Rabbi Michael Taubes, Sukkot-to-Go, 5783 — The joyous holiday of Sukkos, and indeed the entire Yomim Noraim season, culminates with our celebrating the completion of our yearly Kerias HaTorah cycle with the reading of Parshas VeZos HaBerachah, the last parshah in the Chumash. ANICENT BOOK: MODERN QUESTIONS WATCH: […]
Sholom Aleichem Tablet, Oct. 9, 2020 “I took stock of all the other flags, then looked back at my own. What a contrast. Theirs weren’t even fit to hold a candle to mine. My flag was the most successful of all, for who had as much wax as me?” When I was a little […]
Philologos Mosaic Magazine, Sept. 20, 2018 “But was this an actual Simḥat Torah service? I have my doubts.” “One of the most famous foundational stories in the narrative of Anglo-Jewry,” it was called by Tablet several years ago. The online Jewish magazine was referring to an entry in the diary of the British statesman Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), […]
Prof. Rabbi Marty Lockshin The Torah.com, Oct. 9, 2022 “Is this modern-sounding idea—that life without progress is meaningless—really Kohelet’s worldview?” In 1855, Adolph Jellinek (1821–1893) published a commentary on Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) from a late 13th century manuscript in Codex hebr. 32 (henceforth, “Hamburg 32”). The copyist opens the commentary with the words פי’ של ר’ שמואל […]
Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing
Thursday, October 13th 2022 / Thursday, October 13th 2022
Citation de la semaine: «Je défends d’abord les intérêts de mon pays, le Liban. Devons-nous rester en état de guerre ?… aujourd’hui nous demandons qui est la victime ? C’est le peuple libanais.» Claudine Aoun Roukoz, fille du président libanais Michel Aoun (se prononçant en faveur d’un éventuel accord de paix avec Israël) Table des […]
Thursday, October 13th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
WHAT’S WITH RUSSIA’S NUCLEAR STOCKPILE? Here’s What Russia’s Attacks May Indicate About Its Weapons Stockpile.: Mike Ives, NY Times, Oct. 11, 2022 — The Russian missile and drone attacks that killed at least 19 people across Ukraine on Monday were traumatic and wide-ranging, but they were not as deadly as they could have been, in […]
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Gershon Winkler Isranet.org, Oct. 14, 2022 “But my father, he was unconcerned that he and his sukkah could conceivably – at any moment – break loose and crash down into the alleyway below. After all, he had seven special angels surrounding him.” My memory isn’t as great as it used to be, and quite […]
Peter Rough NY Post, Sept. 29, 2022 “Instead of condemning Ukraine to years of warfare and counting on European solidarity in perpetuity, the US should set as its goal Ukrainian victory.” On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to deliver a widely anticipated speech celebrating the annexation of Ukrainian territory into the Russian Federation. […]
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