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Tuesday, September 20th 2022 / Tuesday, September 20th 2022
Irina Tsukerman Foreign Policy Association, Aug. 30, 2022 “All of those countries have several things in common – strong opposition to capitalism, populist distaste for the United States, close relations with narcotraffickers, and alliances with Iran, China, and Russia.” The recent news that Venezuela will be providing Iran with 1 million hectares of arable land for […]
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Monday, September 19th 2022 / Sunday, September 18th 2022
ENOUGH BLAME TO GO AROUND The U.S. and the Holocaust: A new documentary by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein: PBS, Sept. 18, 2022 — The U.S. and the Holocaust is a three-part, six-hour series that examines America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the twentieth century. Americans consider themselves a […]
Sunday, September 18th 2022
JP O’Malley Times of Israel, Aug. 12, 2022 “William Randolph Hearst paid Hitler and other top Nazis an average of $1,500 per article — or $20,000 in today’s money” In January 1934, Lord Harold Rothermere, the owner of Britain’s Daily Mail, filed a story from Munich praising Adolf Hitler. The article was published when […]
Sunday, September 18th 2022 / Sunday, September 18th 2022
Carol Ungar Tablet, Sept. 16, 2022 Though I didn’t realize it as a kid, there was something odd about my grandparents. The tall, craggy-faced man in the black cloth yarmulke was my grandfather, my mother’s father—with their shared large frames and light eyes there was no mistaking the biological connection. But what about the short […]
Dara Horn The Atlantic, Sept. 16, 2022 “Is it America’s responsibility to welcome all immigrants, or at least those in obvious danger? This moral question animates the series until it abruptly becomes irrelevant.” Many works of history are much less about the past than they are about the present. People contemplate past events to […]
Rafael Medoff and Monty Penkower Times of Israel, Sept. 18, 2022 “Roosevelt administration officials falsely asserted that the only way to strike the railways or the death camp would be to “divert” planes from distant battle zones, thus undermining the war effort. That claim is repeated in the Burns film as if it […]
By Martin Ostrow [Martin Ostrow has been an award-winning documentary producer, writer and director for public, commercial and cable television for more than 30 years.] As the producer and director of a PBS film on America’s response to the Holocaust some years ago, I was at first delighted to learn that Ken Burns has now […]
Friday, September 16th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Gilgal: YHWH’s Footprints in the Land of Israel: Zvi Koenigsberg, The Torah.com, Sept. 4, 2020 — In Deuteronomy 11, Moses tells the Israelites that when they cross over into the Cisjordan, they should head to the area of Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal. New York State vs. the Yeshivas: Eli Spitzer, Mosaic Magazine, Oct. 25, […]
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Eliza Shapiro and Brian M. Rosenthal NY Times, Sept. 12, 2022 “For many Hasidic people, their schools are succeeding — just not according to the standards set by the outside world. In a community that places religion at the center of daily life, secular education is often viewed as unnecessary, or even distracting.” […]
Rabbi Avi Shafran Religion News Service, Sept. 13, 2022 “The critical thinking, textual analysis, reading comprehension, argumentation skills; the historical knowledge, the foreign language acquisition, the legal concepts; indeed, the Jewish culture, tradition, and ethical behavior … embedded in these schools’ religious study are genuinely remarkable.” The flyers in the synagogues in my […]
Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, Sept. 12, 2022 “As much as it would be easy to dismiss the story, if test scores and reports from other sources, including from Jews who are deeply worried about the failure of this system to prepare its students for any sort of a productive life other than Torah scholarship—are to be […]
Jay Greene and Jason Bedrick The Daily Signal, Sept. 9, 2022 “Given rising rates of depression, aimlessness, drug abuse, self-mutilation, and suicide among young people in modern society, it’s easy to understand why so many Americans hew much closer to the yeshiva view of education than that of the ruling elites.” The New […]
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