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Delete This Message

Barton Swain The Washington Free Beacon, Oct. 13, 2024 “With The Message, Ta-Nehisi Coates has become a clownish, postmodern Walter Duranty.”   Rarely has a book been so lavishly applauded as Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me was in 2015. The book fetched gushing reviews, admiring interviews in prestigious media, won eminent literary prizes, and almost instantly […]

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The Obscene Public Humiliation Ritual of CBS’s Tony Dokoupil

Jeffrey Blahar National Review, Oct. 9, 2024 “Essentially, he was formally and professionally condemned by his own company for asking pointed questions of a person pre-designated as a saint: the crime of lèse-majesté.’   The mainstream media has been afire over the past week about a major internal controversy at CBS, where CBS Mornings anchor Tony Dokoupil has been called […]

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Premier anniversaire du massacre du 7 octobre : les larmes sont toujours humides, mais la victoire se dessine

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Citation de la semaine: « Les principes sacrés comme le nom du Seigneur ne doivent pas être utilisés en vain – pour soutenir une escroquerie, pour dissimuler une injustice. Le principe d’autodétermination ne signifie pas que si quelqu’un s’est emparé d’une parcelle de terre, elle doit rester en sa possession pour toujours, et que celui qui […]

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Daily Briefing: YOM KIPPUR: CONFRONTING A HIGHER FORM OF AWE

SHABBAT READING Jonah Leaves Us with Questions, So on Yom Kippur We End with Micah:  Prof. Marc Zvi Brettler, The Torah.com, Oct. 8, 2024 — The book of Jonah is a remarkable four-scene[1] story that is both absurd and sublime.[2] The tradition of reading Jonah during the afternoon service, for many the centerpiece of the day, goes back, at […]

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Need a Reason to Repent? The Answer—No Matter Who You Are—Can Be Found Here

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Helen Plotkin Tablet, Sept. 3, 2013 “For 10 days we live with excruciating awareness of the fact that our stories will include suffering, without any promise that we will be comforted. On Yom Kippur we give ourselves over completely to this truth.” On the High Holidays, we read a poem known by its first two […]

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Yom Kippur Gives Us an Opportunity to Return to the Shores of Our Lives

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Dror Eydar Israel Hayom, Oct. 11, 2024 “All of this relates to repairing our relationship with God, which is, in essence, a repair of our relationship with ourselves.” 1. Recently, a wise and beautiful woman confided in me that Yom Kippur, for her, is a frightening and sad day. “I tremble at the memory of the […]

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This Yom Kippur, the ‘Al Chet’ of Denial Hangs Over the Whole World

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Abraham Cooper The Media Line, Oct. 11, 2024 “How in God’s name was it possible to deny on October 8 what the world witnessed on October 7? Where did Hamas learn such a strategy, and to what end? The roots of this denial trace back to the last century, to history’s greatest crime—the Holocaust. For […]

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At the Threshold of Forgiveness: A Study of Law and Narrative in the Talmud

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Moshe Halbertal Jewish Review of Books, Fall 2011   “The juxtaposition of law and narrative is a characteristic and important feature of the Talmud. After discussing the formal requirements for requesting forgiveness, the Talmud presents four brief stories of encounters in which rabbinic masters attempt to reconcile with those they have injured.”   Near the […]

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Daily Briefing:”THE ANTISEMITISM IS THE POINT”

*** My Message to the Jews:  Jordan Peterson, The Standard, Oct. 4, 2024 The Antisemitism is the Point:  Jim Geraghty, National Review, Oct. 7, 2024 Did the Media Coverage of October 7 and the Hamas War Lead to Increased Antisemitism?:  Chaim Lax,  Algemeiner, Oct. 8, 2024 Now They Won’t Even Let Jews Grieve in Peace:  Brendan O’Neill, Spiked, Oct. 9, […]

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Now They Won’t Even Let Jews Grieve in Peace

Brendan O’Neill Spiked, Oct. 9, 2024 “Think about this: Jewish students marking the one-year anniversary of the worst act of anti-Semitic violence since the Holocaust were mobbed by students celebrating that violence, bigging it up as ‘resistance’. This was Jew-taunting dolled up as radical activism, the salt of Israel-hate rubbed into the wound of Jews’ […]

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My Message to the Jews

Jordan Peterson The Standard, Oct. 4, 2024   “What else did I conclude? That the Jews are the eternal canary in the coal mine, and that their persecution signals the downfall of a society.”   I have been watching the rising tide of antisemitism for about five years. It first appeared online, manifesting itself in the form […]

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The Antisemitism Is the Point

Jim Geraghty National Review, Oct. 7, 2024 “If your lone measuring stick of geopolitical events was the reaction of American college students, you would think that (a) the October 7 massacre and mass rapes were a minor provocation, not even worth much discussion, and (b) the Israeli military response to that massacre is a greater […]

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