Analysis
Tuesday, February 28th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
John Tierney The Free Press, Feb. 27, 2023 “There is just no evidence that they make any difference. Full stop.” We now have the most authoritative estimate of the value provided by wearing masks during the pandemic: approximately zero. The most rigorous and extensive review of the scientific literature concludes that neither […]
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Smriti Mallapaty Nature, Feb. 14, 2023 “The researchers concluded that the virus was probably shed by humans, but Rasmussen and others are keen to take a closer look at the raw data, which included swabs from a defeathering machine, to see whether they can identify animal species.” The World Health Organization (WHO) […]
Michael R. Gordon and Warren P. Strobel WSJ, Feb. 26, 2023 “Despite the agencies’ differing analyses, the update reaffirmed an existing consensus between them that Covid-19 wasn’t the result of a Chinese biological-weapons program, the people who have read the classified report said.” The U.S. Energy Department has concluded that the Covid pandemic most […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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? […]
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 […]
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 […]
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