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Friday, October 7th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
SHABBAT READING The Multiple Metaphors for God in Shirat Haazinu: Prof. Rabbi Andrea M Weiss, TheTorah.com, Sept. 23, 2014 —Parashat Haazinu tells of a relationship gone awry. According to the poem at the heart of Deuteronomy 32 (referred to as “the Song of Moses” or, after its first word, “Shirat Haazinu”), God established a special relationship […]
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Atar Hadari Mosaic Magazine, Sept. 16, 2013 “The festivals of the Jewish year form a chain. Rosh Hashanah is a wake-up call: ten days later, on Yom Kippur, you will be required to account for yourself. And at the end of the long Yom Kippur fast, you are required not to rush off and stuff […]
Dr. Dafna Langgut The Torah.com, Sept. 23, 2021 “The earliest archaeological evidence for the cultivation of the tree outside Persia is in a garden in Ramat Rahel—nowadays part of west Jerusalem but in that period a Persian administrative center near Jerusalem—in a stratum dated to the 5th/4th century B.C.E.” The Torah mentions four plant species in connection […]
Dovid Bashevkin Tablet, Sept. 1, 2021 “Instead of staring at the rubble of my Jewish ideals, promises, and commitments with a crestfallen sorrow exhausted to build again from scratch, a sukkah creates a world meant to be rebuilt, reassembled, and reimagined.” Most Jewish holidays are easy to explain to your non-Jewish colleagues. Many, if […]
Jeremy Rosen Algemeiner, Sept. 23, 2021 “ Our rituals … interlink social morality and responsibility with daily rituals, so that we are constantly reminded of our values and goals.” The ancient festival of Sukkot has numerous elements to it. First is the Sukkah. We value our homes and the security of our little […]
Thursday, October 6th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Gas Deal: Security Guarantees for Israel, Economic Benefits for Lebanon: Lahav Harkov and Anna Ahronheim, Jerusalem Post, Oct. 2, 2022 — Israel will receive royalties from gas that Lebanon extracts in the disputed area of the Mediterranean Sea, Prime Minister Yair Lapid revealed at Sunday’s cabinet meeting. Maritime Agreement: A Tactical Concession for the Sake […]
Ron Ben Ishai Ynet News, Oct. 2, 2022 “Any attempt to target the Karish rig would have caused a massive Israeli military response that would have further burdened Lebanon, which is already a failed state, suffering from economic crisis.“ Even at this stage, while the details of the pending agreement to end […]
Tony Badran FDD, September 22, 2022 “If a border agreement is finalized, the Biden administration will have set a terrible precedent by leveraging Hezbollah threats to secure Israeli concessions that enrich and empower a U.S.-designated terrorist organization.” Israel and Lebanon are apparently close to a final agreement delineating their maritime border after […]
Caroline Glick JNS, Oct. 4, 2022 “During his visit to Israel in July, just days after Hezbollah’s drone attacks on Karish, Biden upped U.S. pressure on Israel to conclude a deal with Lebanon and so enable the Hezbollah-controlled Lebanese government to begin raking in billions of dollars in gas revenues from the Qana field. […]
Yoav Limor Israel Hayom, Oct. 3, 2022 “Israel has made a tactical concession for a strategic gain of stability on the northern border.” The emerging maritime agreement with Lebanon is good news. As it is with most deals, it is not perfect, but the alternative – a dangerous escalation on the northern […]
Tuesday, October 4th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) Guide for the Perplexed, 2022: Yoram Ettinger, The Ettinger Report, Sept. 29, 2022 — Yom Kippur is observed on the 10th day of the Jewish month of Tishrei (October 5, 2022), a Super Sabbath (Shabbat Shabbaton in Hebrew), concluding 10 days of soul-searching and spiritual self-awareness and self-enhancement, which begins on Rosh Hashanah, […]
Rokhl Kafrissen Tablet, Sept. 30, 2022 “The first recording I heard of this song was this intense, urgent version that had instrumentation like sirens, fast strumming, and the singing sounded so desperate. And the lyrics themselves have felt more and more relevant the older I’ve gotten as antisemitism has been rising around the U.S.” […]
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