Isranet Daily Briefing
Wednesday, May 1st 2019
YOM HASHOAH The Commanding Voice of Auschwitz: Emil L. Fackenheim, 1972 — What does the Voice of Auschwitz command? — What does the Voice of Auschwitz command? Jews are forbidden to hand Hitler posthumous victories. Emil L. Fackenheim, a Holocaust survivor born in Germany (1918), was a Reform rabbi and professor of philosophy […]
Analysis
By Emil L. Fackenheim, From: God’s Presence in History: Jewish Affirmations and Philosophical Reflections, 1972 What does the Voice of Auschwitz command? Jews are forbidden to hand Hitler posthumous victories. They are commanded to survive as Jews, lest the Jewish people perish. They are commanded to remember the victims of Auschwitz lest their memory […]
Tuesday, April 30th 2019
Politics: Putting Together the Puzzle: Lahav Harkov, Jerusalem Post, Apr. 25, 2019 — when President Reuven Rivlin officially tasked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with forming a government last week, Netanyahu said he wanted to get started as soon as possible on building a coalition with the same partners he had for the past four years. Netanyahu’s Brilliant […]
By Philip Carl Salzman After Congresswomen Ilham Omar’s and Rashida Tlaib’s incendiary anti-Semitic rants directed at Jewish Americans and American ally Israel, the Democrat House “progressive caucus,” led by Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, rallied around to protect and support them. The progressive media chimed in, supporting the Islamist congresswomen. Even after Rep. Omar dismissed the 9/11 attacks as “someone did something,” Democrat progressives defended her, […]
By Bradley Martin Last month, the Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary (G-ETS) appointed Taurean J. Webb as its Director of the Center for the Church and the Black Experience. The prominent Methodist seminary also announced that Webb would be joining its faculty as an assistant professor of religion and race upon completion of his dissertation. “We […]
A Despicable Cartoon in The Times: Bret Stephens, NYT, Apr. 28, 2019 — As prejudices go, anti-Semitism can sometimes be hard to pin down, but on Thursday the opinion pages of The New York Times international edition provided a textbook illustration of it. Except that The Times wasn’t explaining anti-Semitism. It was purveying it. The European Origins of […]
Monday, April 29th 2019
By Frederick Krantz The United States is witnessing today several linked phenomena of profound importance and danger for both Israel and the world. The Democratic Party risks being taken over by a faction calling itself “progressive” or “democratic socialist”, and distancing itself from Jews and from the Party’s traditional support for the State of Israel. […]
Sunday, April 28th 2019
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Friday, April 26th 2019 / Monday, September 21st 2020
LE RETOUR DE LA SOLUTION JORDANIENNE Shlomo Ben-Ami / Project Syndicate L’initiative française de réunir une conférence internationale pour relancer les pourparlers directs entre Israéliens et Palestiniens, tournée vers une « solution à deux États », toujours plus évanescente, est l’enfant d’un phantasme rémanent. Mais après des décennies de négociations ratées, il est temps de […]
Thursday, April 25th 2019
By Barbara Kay Antisemitism is the most ancient of hatreds, and not, as many progressives would like to believe, an obsession of the far right and white supremacists alone… Conspiracy theories have targeted Jews as a religion, as a race and as a nation. Islamophobia, by contrast, is a recent invention, conceived to advance […]
Victory for Netanyahu Is a Defeat for The New York Times: Ira Stoll, Allgemeiner, Apr. 10, 2019— The victory of Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel’s election is a defeat for the New York Times. The New York Times Owes Americans a Big, Fat Apology: Michael Goodwin, New York Post, March 25, 2019 — Now that President Trump has been vindicated and the […]
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