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Monday, March 17th 2025 / Sunday, March 16th 2025
David Rose Unherd, Mar. 16, 2025 “As so often, the BBC stuck to its guns, claiming its usage was “true to the speaker’s intentions.” Earlier this week, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch wrote to BBC Director-General Tim Davie demanding “wholesale reform” of the corporation’s Arabic service, saying it provided a “platform for terrorists” and promulgated “appalling antisemitism” and […]
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Friday, March 14th 2025 / Friday, March 14th 2025
SHABBAT READING Ruth and Esther: Divergent Narratives, Convergent Narratology: Prof. Rabbi Reuven Kimelman, The Torah.com, Mar. 11, 2025 — Aside from featuring a heroine, the biblical books of Ruth and Esther seem hardly alike. Setting – Ruth takes place in rural Judea, in Bethlehem, in the period of the Judges, before the establishment of the […]
Friday, March 14th 2025
Emmanuel Bloch and Dr. Rabbi Zvi Ron The Torah.com. Mar. 16, 2022 “Apparently, Streicher could not help but notice the parallels of the hanging of ten Nazis and the hanging of Haman’s ten sons.” Streicher and the Nuremberg “Purimfest” Twenty-four defendants were tried at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals (Nov 20, 1945–Oct 1, […]
Friday, March 14th 2025 / Thursday, March 13th 2025
Mijal Bitton Times of Israel, Mar. 6, 2025 “Amalek, by contrast, represents the kind of Jew-hatred that cannot be explained.” The worst mistake Israel made before October 7th wasn’t a failure of intelligence; it was a failure of imagination. This has been one of the most painful realizations as findings from probes into the attack were released […]
Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, Mar. 12, 2025 “Whatever the details of what actually happened, the idea that the Jews had turned the tables on those who sought their death and killed a lot of them is horrifying to modern-day leftists.” This is not the first time in history in which some Jews have internalized the […]
Jenna Weissman Joselit Jewish Review of Books, Mar. 13, 2025 “The former conversos in the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam embraced the Esther story as their own.” Purim—the whole shebang, from the ancient story on which the holiday is based to the contemporary ways in which it’s celebrated—always struck me as raucous and overegged. After seeing the […]
Thursday, March 13th 2025 / Thursday, March 13th 2025
By Allan M. Levine, Ph.D. Purim 2025 Once upon a Purim Eve—not too long ago but certainly before gluten-free pastries took over—the streets of a bustling Jewish neighborhood were alive with merriment, mischief, and the scent of freshly baked, 3-cornered hamentashen (hamentash – singular). Two Jews, rushing home with oversized, triangular hamentashen the size of […]
Thursday, March 13th 2025
Israel Redrawing Its Borders in Syria and Lebanon: Yoni Ben Menachem, Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, Mar. 6, 2025 Lebanon-Israel Border Disputes: Can Talks Lead to a Lasting Truce?: Rita El Jammal, The New Arab, Mar. 12, 2025 95 Coffins, Countless Wounds: Lebanon Grapples with Hezbollah’s ‘Victory’ Over Israel: Nabih Bulos, LA Times, […]
Thursday, March 13th 2025 / Wednesday, March 12th 2025
Yoni Ben Menachem Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, Mar. 6, 2025 “Israel is redefining its borders in Syria and Lebanon according to its security needs while strengthening ties with its Druze allies in Syria.” On February 24, 2025, protests erupted in southern Syria, with several hundred demonstrators rallying in multiple locations against Prime […]
Rita El Jammal The New Arab, Mar. 12, 2025 “Abi Rashed points out that the total number of disputed points is 13, starting with Ras al-Naqoura at what the UN terms BP1, which is considered to be of great strategic importance.” Developments have emerged on Wednesday on the Lebanon-Israel front regarding arrangements for a ceasefire agreement and the release of prisoners. Alongside […]
Nabih Bulos LA Times, Mar. 11, 2025 “People talk about victory. What victory? All this destruction and death? What was this for?” The procession of coffins was heard long before it came into view, a chorus of ambulance sirens drowning out the crowd assembled at the main square of this devastated village. “Arise, Aitaroun! This […]
Neville Teller Jerusalem Post, Feb. 24, 2025 “Israel’s confidence in the UN’s peacekeeping force (UNIFIL) is at a low ebb after 47 years of its total inability to control Hezbollah.” The unhappy truth is that despite Hezbollah having received a military thrashing at the hands of the IDF, the organization still possesses considerable political power within Lebanon. On […]
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