Isranet Daily Briefing
Friday, March 24th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
SHABBAT READING Meeting the Challenge of Critical Scholarship with Leviticus: Dr. Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg, The Torah.com, May 17, 2016 — We are now in the opening stage of the debate in the modern Orthodox community on how to deal with critical biblical studies. Integrators One group – currently a minority, pioneering one – argues that we […]
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Ashley Rindsberg Tablet, Mar. 22, 2023 “SVB’s collapse, far from being an unforeseeable “black swan,” represented “a very classic event in the very classic bubble-bursting part of the short-term debt cycle.” It should go without saying that we are now in a financial crisis. We have just witnessed the collapse or near-collapse of […]
Dave Boyer The Washington Times, Mar. 19, 2023 “The banks’ troubles have been blamed in part on the Fed’s rapid series of rate hikes, which reduced the value of their long-term debt.” Fears that another interest rate hike will hasten more bank failures will loom over the Federal Reserve’s meeting this week after a study found […]
Paul Sperry NY Post, Mar. 17, 2023 “SVB’s board is packed with Trump-hating Hillary, Biden and Obama donors obsessed with “equity and diversity.” Wokeness has replaced competence and merit across the banking sector, and San Francisco Fed Chief Mary Daly is the poster child of this pernicious trend. A protege of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and short-list […]
Jason Zweig WSJ, Mar. 17, 2023 “Even as rules have proliferated and bailouts multiplied, the U.S. stock market has suffered four crashes of least 20% since the year 2000.” Don’t panic. That’s the message financial regulators are sending—and it is barely working. In the past week, U.S. authorities promised to back uninsured deposits at the failed Silicon Valley […]
Allysia Finley WSJ, Mar. 19, 2023 “Why shouldn’t Silicon Valley have to bear some pain as the central bank corrects the ultra-loose monetary policies that enriched its technocratic class?” Imagine a bank in Houston that caters to the oil-and-gas industry. It makes low-cost loans with credit-friendly terms to unprofitable shale frackers on the […]
Thursday, March 23rd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
LESSONS LEARNED Applying the Lessons of the Iraq War to Ukraine: Ron DeSantis vs. Bret Stephens of the NY Times: Real Clear Politics, Mar. 20, 2023— RealClearPolitics president and cofounder Tom Bevan and Washington bureau chief Carl Cannon discuss the 20th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War, as well as New York Times […]
Tom Basile Washington Times, Mar. 17, 2023 “Twenty years on, we owe it to our military, our civilians and ourselves as we face new threats together to take a more honest look at the successes of the War on Terrorism and our mission in Iraq.’ This week marks the 20th anniversary of the beginning of our […]
Gerard Baker WSJ, Mar. 20, 2023 “The promulgation of the WMD fictions, the Abu Ghraib horrors, the catastrophically inept initial occupation and administration—all undid in a matter of months the post-Cold War authority and heft the U.S. had earned over decades.” Some of those who supported the invasion of Iraq 20 years ago this […]
Simona Foltyn Boston Review, Mar. 15, 2023 “… the government’s role in the August clashes deserves closer examination, not least because prime minister Kadhimi was Washington’s man in Baghdad.” Abbas stood in front of the state television station when the first bullet whizzed by. The thirty-something had been deployed there alongside hundreds of other soldiers […]
Huaisal Saeed Al Mutar The Free Press, Mar. 21, 2023 “For all that, for all the chaos America, for all the dislocation, for the grief that will never leave me, I don’t harbor any ill will toward America.” My eldest brother, Samir al Mutar, was born in August 1980. He was a talented computer engineer […]
Wednesday, March 22nd 2023 / Tuesday, October 31st 2023
WEEKLY QUOTES If the High Court of Justice strikes down the bill to change the makeup of the Judicial Selection Committee, Justice Minister Yariv Levin (Likud) does not intend to respect the ruling. Such a ruling would be “crossing […]
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