Analysis
Wednesday, June 4th 2025
Laurence Norman WSJ, May 31, 2025 “The agency said in its report that Iran’s “lack of answers and clarifications” has led it to conclude that Tehran had an “undeclared structured nuclear program” until the 2000s and that some activities used undeclared nuclear material.” Iran has continued to produce highly enriched uranium at a pace of […]
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Danny Zaken Israel Hayom, June 3, 2025 “What is in this so-called side deal? The American people deserve transparency.” An Arab diplomatic source told Israel Hayom that the US proposal to Iran includes the construction of a uranium enrichment facility in the Gulf region, whose output would serve several countries in the area. The source believes the proposal presents […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Friday, May 30th 2025
SHABBAT READING Hosea’s Abusive Marital Metaphor Ends with Courtship, Not Violence: Prof. Rabbi Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, The Torah.com, May 17, 2023 — One of the most confounding biblical depictions of marriage appears in Hosea 2:1–22, read as the Haftarah to the Torah portion of Bemidbar. On one hand it contains beautiful lines of YHWH, as […]
Friday, May 30th 2025 / Friday, May 30th 2025
Jeffery Levine, Times of Israel, May 30, 2025 As Shavuot approaches, our thoughts turn not only to the giving of the Torah and the Ten Commandments but also to the pressing moral questions of our time. This year, our hearts are heavy with the memory of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim—two staffers at the Israeli […]
Sarah Rindner Book of Books, June 3, 2024 The upcoming holiday of Shavuot evokes the receiving of the Torah on Har Sinai, flowers and greenery, and of course delicious dairy food. It is also the holiday of “malkhut,” or kingship, when we read the book of Ruth, which recounts the backstory behind the emergence […]
Shmuel Lubin The Lehrhaus, June 6, 2019 When it comes to the holiday of Shavuot, few questions are as famous as the one posed by Magen Avraham (494:1) on the problem of associating the holiday with the date of the Sinai revelation, the giving of the Torah. Based on his reading of a talmudic discussion in Shabbat (86b), […]
Prof. Sam Fleischacker The Torah.com, Nov. 4, 2013 Under Sinai or in the Jerusalem Square? The revelation at Sinai, as described in the Torah, provides an immensely appealing model of what it might be like for God to speak to us. We experience there uncanny thunder and lightning, perhaps synaesthetically, above which a voice […]
Dr. Tzvi Novick The Torah.com, May 27, 2020 Mutual Covenantal Responsibility at Sinai The famous rabbinic dictum has it that כל ישראל ערבים זה בזה “all Israelites are guarantors one for the other,” or in other words, that each is responsible to “pay” for the sin of the other.[1] But what is the extent of […]
Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing
Citation de la semaine: “Nous sommes en guerre. Et l’État d’Israël doit gagner. Je suis certain que la victoire nous ramènera les otages.” Zvika Mor, père de l’otage Eitan Mor Table Des Matières “Mon fils est très fort” : le père d’Eitan Mor témoigne après 600 jours de captivité: i24NEWS, 28 mai 2025 Benjamin […]
Thursday, May 29th 2025 / Thursday, May 29th 2025
The War Is Shifting Europe’s Politics Away from Israel: Matina Stevis-Gridneff, NY Times, May 22, 2025 Macron Edges Towards Recognition of Palestinian State Amid Geopolitical Risks: National Herald, May 28, 2025 As Macron Mulls Palestinian State Recognition, Analysts Warn Move May ‘Not Be Helpful’: Reuters and TOI staff, Times of Israel, May 29, 2025 Is […]
Thursday, May 29th 2025
Matina Stevis-Gridneff NY Times, May 22, 2025 “If more of their neighbors follow their lead, the European Union could become a major counterweight to the American position that Palestinian statehood should result only from a negotiated settlement with Israel. That would deepen the rift between Europe and Israel.” In Europe, long a vital source […]
Susanne Mundschenk Unherd, May 28, 2025 “Benjamin Netanyahu’s government may see Europe’s repositioning as a confirmation that Israel is on its own, and so may continue the military operation in Gaza regardless.” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has this week changed his tone and message on Israel and its war in Gaza. France and the […]
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