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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: […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
Chris Miller WSJ, Sept. 29, 2022 “The Russian military knows that its most advanced systems depend on smuggled or improvised components of questionable reliability.” The Russian military has blundered repeatedly during the seven months since its armies stormed into Ukraine, but if Kyiv’s successful counteroffensives had to be explained with just one word, […]
Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. WSJ, Oct. 7, 2022 “The U.S. is accused of pouring money into a corrupt government. Ukraine has had corruption problems but so have we, and much of the money is actually going to Alabama and Arkansas, where Javelins and Himars are made, and to Tennessee and Missouri, U.S. centers of ammunition […]
Michael R. Pompeo Hudson Institute, Oct. 3, 2022 “If Mr. Putin should employ a nuclear weapon, Taiwan will be next, and Iran will be animated to attack Israel with nuclear-armed missiles.” America and NATO must seek a decisive victory for Ukraine. Victory must be attained quickly on Ukraine’s terms. Only this will save lives. It […]
Wednesday, October 12th 2022 / Wednesday, October 12th 2022
WEEKLY QUOTES “That is ridiculous.” Ambassador Tom Nides shooting down claims that the U.S.-brokered deal on gas and maritime borders between Israel and Lebanon was a surrender to Hezbollah. He also rejected arguments by his predecessor, David Friedman, who tweeted that […]
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