Analysis
Monday, December 19th 2022
Curt Leviant Tablet, Dec. 16, 2020 “What Jew didn’t know his family name? What Jew can’t read from the siddur. What Jew has the gruff look of a goy?” Early one morning, one snowless winter’s day, end November, just before Hanukkah, a solidly built man—he seemed to be in his mid-30s—appeared in […]
Don Feder Washington Times, Dec. 10, 2022 “The two sides seem remarkably similar to those in the Hanukkah story. In the culture war, one side believes in an evolving moral code shaped by convenience and popular opinion. The other subscribes to a code that’s both universal and eternal.” Hanukkah may be the most […]
Philologos Mosaic Magazine, Nov. 30, 2021 “Sacks, a chief rabbi who was knighted and awarded a peerage by the British Crown, found this stanza embarrassing. His solution was not very different from Ma’oz Tsur’s: to publish and conceal simultaneously.” How many stanzas of the candle-lighting song Ma’oz Tsur Y’shu’ati are you familiar with? If you’re like […]
Prof. Eyal Regev The Torah.com, Dec. 10, 2017 “Although almost half of the book describes the military conflicts between the Judah’s troops and the Seleucids, its emphasis is on the religious piety of Judah and his followers.” Chanukah has a special history. Early Jewish sources from the second century B.C.E. – 1 Maccabees, […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Friday, December 16th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
SHABBAT READING: Why Does the Torah Describe Babies Born Hands First?’: Dr. Eran Viezel, The Torah.com, Nov. 28, 2018 The story of Judah and Tamar in Genesis 38 ends with Tamar giving birth to twins:[1] בראשית לח:כז וַיְהִי בְּעֵת לִדְתָּהּ וְהִנֵּה תְאוֹמִים בְּבִטְנָהּ. לח:כח וַיְהִי בְלִדְתָּהּ וַיִּתֶּן יָד וַתִּקַּח הַמְיַלֶּדֶת וַתִּקְשֹׁר עַל יָדוֹ שָׁנִי לֵאמֹר זֶה יָצָא רִאשֹׁנָה. לח:כט וַיְהִי כְּמֵשִׁיב יָדוֹ וְהִנֵּה […]
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Saul Austerlitz PBS, Dec. 13, 2022 “Bellow was a cultural conservative at heart, decrying what he saw as the excesses of a society spiraling out of control, but his critique is laced with deep sympathy for the rejects and failures of American life.” It is only too easy to see Saul Bellow as one […]
Matti Friedman Tablet, May 4, 2022 “So “Lover Lover Lover” is a war song. It’s not clear what “lover” he’s referring to in the chorus, which simply intones that word seven times and implores, “come back to me.” But if we understand the song as a kind of prayer, maybe the word appears […]
Joanne Kaufman WSJ, Dec. 7, 2022 ““I’ll Have What She’s Having” bears no resemblance whatsoever to the over-stuffed sandwiches that are the deli’s stock in trade. The exhibit is lean and compact, free of kitsch and light on schmaltzy nostalgia.” “Tell me what you eat,” the 18th-century French lawyer and gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin famously said, […]
Stav Ziv Forward, Dec. 15, 2022 “… whether they’re following their own personal observance or taking those of their audience into account, the groups have religious reasons to limit their membership. Also business reasons.” Plenty has changed about holiday a cappella videos since “Candlelight” exploded on YouTube over a decade ago like a 21st-century Hanukkah […]
Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing
Thursday, December 15th 2022 / Tuesday, October 31st 2023
Citation de la semaine: “Les épigrammes sont des petites flèches déliées, qui font une plaie profonde et inaccessibles aux remèdes.” Montesquieu, Lettres persanes Compte à rebours iranien Times of Israel, NOV 27 2022 La Maison Blanche sonne l’alarme sur “le partenariat militaire à grande échelle” entre Russie et Iran i24 news, 09 décembre 2022 CNN rapporte […]
Thursday, December 15th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
ALL ABOUT JOE Biden Family Corruption Is Being Covered Up, and It All Leads to Joe: Matt Margolis, PJ Media, Dec. 13, 2022 — According to Peter Schweizer, the president of the Government Accountability Institute, there is an ongoing cover-up involving Hunter Biden’s shady foreign business dealings and Joe Biden’s involvement with them. Hunter Biden’s […]
Tom Basile The Washington Times, Dec. 9, 2022 “The credibility of the laptop and anyone who touched it needed to be destroyed quickly or the Biden basement campaign would fail.” Elon Musk is pulling back the curtain on one of the most salacious political maneuvers in American history that polling suggests could have affected […]
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