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Friday, December 27th 2024
“From this perspective, the revolt of the Maccabees against Greek rule wasn’t just about religious freedom or political independence from pagans. It was a fight between those Jews who accepted the Hellenic claim to intellectual superiority—to a human-oriented knowledge of science, mathematics, and philosophy that surpassed the intellectual achievements of all other cultures—and those who, […]
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Mois Navon Lehrhaus, Dec. 10, 2023 “… who is the intended audience for “publicizing the miracle”?” On Oct. 7, 2023, the day that has come to be called “the Black Sabbath,” our enemies darkened our eyes and our world. To overcome them, we must fight them with light. Of course, I do not mean to […]
Richard Hidary Jewish Review of Books, Dec. 27, 2016 “The early rabbis rejected these books from the canon not only because of the late date of their composition but likely also because they wanted to suppress their revolutionary message.” In his response to Rabbi Shlomo Riskin’s review of his book, Not in God’s Name, Rabbi […]
Lewis H. Glinert Mosaic Magazine, Dec. 14, 2017 What have they done to my song? The medieval Ashkenazi maestro who penned the poem we now call Maoz Tsur (in English, “Rock of Ages”) might well have asked this question. True, Mordechai—his name is encoded in the first five stanzas—is a mysterious figure; one can only surmise that […]
Meir Soloveitchik The Free Press, Dec. 26, 2024 “Churchill understood that the fire of Sinai was not only on that mountain, but also in Moses’s heart.” In darker times we look for light. Among Jewish images of illumination there are few more inspiring than one taken in the German city of Kiel in 1931. Akiva Posner, rabbi […]
Thursday, December 26th 2024 / Thursday, December 26th 2024
“Regardless of their faults, all three men shared a common trait at a critical moment in history—they trusted their own stubbornness against the mirror world of digitally based conformity. The human future rests on individuals in all walks of life and representing all parties and all currents of opinion being brave and independent-minded enough to […]
Thursday, December 26th 2024
*** David Samuels Tablet, Dec. 20, 2024 If anyone in the future cares enough to write an authentic history of the 2024 presidential campaign, they might begin by noting that American politics exists downstream of American culture, which is a deep and broad river. Like any river, American culture follows a particular path, which has […]
Walter Russel Mead WSJ, Dec. 23, 2024 “Ironically, Team Biden ended up serving as pallbearers at the funeral of a Middle East policy it hoped to save.” The consequences of Bashar al-Assad’s fall from power in Syria will reverberate for years across the Middle East, but one great fact is already clear. The Obama era in […]
Joshua Muravchik Commentary Magazine, January 2025 “One cardinal feature of Obama’s legacy, although not in the realm of international policy, nonetheless reverberated in attitudes toward Israel. That was his encouragement of “identity politics.” THE 2024 ELECTION left the Democrats “considering how to navigate a dark future,” said the New York Times. Voices from the progressive wing […]
Daniel Greenfield Front Page Magazine, Dec. 23, 2024 “America after Obama is marked by separation not unity, by a relentless skepticism in everything and a distrust of oratory. That is why Obama could no more get elected today than Kamala could while running an Obama Lite campaign under the tutelage of Obama’s old hands.” In […]
Tuesday, December 24th 2024 / Tuesday, December 24th 2024
“The Americans said to me, ‘If you go into Rafah, you’re on your own, and we’re not going to send you the critical arms,’ which is tough to hear. . . . But if we don’t go into Rafah, we can’t exist as a sovereign state. We’d become a vassal state and we won’t survive. […]
A.J. Caschetta Algemeiner, Dec. 25, 2024 “One of the greatest differences between the coverage of the hostages held in Iran 45 years ago and of the hostages in Gaza today is that no one was on Iran’s side then, while many are on Hamas’s side today.” On November 4, 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s henchmen stormed […]
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