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Daily Briefing: COMMEMORATING TISHA B’AV AFTER OCTOBER 7TH

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INCREASING TIES Podcast: J.J. Schacter on the First Tisha b’Av Since October 7:  Tikvah podcast at Mosaic, Aug. 2, 2024 — On the 9th day of the Hebrew month of Av in the year 586 BCE, Nebuchadnezzar and his Babylonian forces destroyed the Temple in Jerusalem.    Original Tisha B’Av Documentary: Heroism and Faith amid the […]

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Creating Freedom Without Anarchy, Order Without Tyranny

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks The Rabbi Sacks Legacy, July 28, 2014   “What the Torah tells us early on is how humanity failed. They did so in two ways. They created freedom without order. Or they created order without freedom. That is still the human tragedy.”   Nine days from now Jewish communities around the world […]

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The Newest Chapter of The Jewish Story Is Told in Song

Tanya White Times of Israel, Aug. 9, 2024   “The current war Israel is fighting has suffered from many failures, one of the greatest of which is the failure of the echelons of leadership to provide an effective narrative.”   At the end of the hit musical “Hamilton,” there is a song whose lyrics continue […]

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What Sin Caused the Destruction of the First Temple?

Prof. Rabbi Marty Lockshin The Torah.com, July 31, 2022   “ … at times, the voices in Lamentations interrupt each other within the same verse.[19] According to this Talmudic interpretation cited by Rashi, God would be the one interrupting here, but, as Greenstein writes, the one voice that is conspicuously absent from the book of Lamentations […]

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The Link Between the JNF And Tisha B’Av And Other Miscellaneous Tisha B’Av Items

Saul J. Singer Jewish Press, Aug. 7, 2024   “As the sun set over Jerusalem the Golden reunited at last, Jews of all backgrounds and ethnicities gathered at the Wall on Tisha B’Av for the first time in two millennia. Sitting on the hallowed ground holding small candles, they participated in thousands of small minyanim […]

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Daily Briefing: SHOULD U.S. JEWS RECONSIDER THEIR DEMOCRATIC PARTY ALLEGIANCES?

BACKING THE WRONG PONY WATCH:  Elections 2024: What Elites Are MISSING About the Working Class | Think Twice:  JNS TV, July 29, 2024 — So much has been said about Donald Trump’s appeal to blue collar workers since he first came down the escalator to announce his candidacy in 2015. … In this episode of Think Twice, our […]

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We Knew That the Virus of Antisemitism Had Not Disappeared, But America Has Always Been Different’

Avital Indig/ Makor Rishon Israel Hayom, July 10, 2024 “Over the course of time antisemitism has led to two opposite processes: For some, it has aroused a strong desire to distance themselves from Judaism and to assimilate, while among others it has actually sparked a will to withdraw inwards and to bring the Jewish community […]

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Trump’s Rhetoric Vs. Harris’s Policies

Caroline B. Glick JNS, Aug. 11, 1014 “While Harris’s aides have breathlessly insisted that she never expressed any support for an arms embargo and that she opposes an arms embargo, Harris supported the administration’s decision to block shipments of several critical weapons systems to Israel.” Former President Donald Trump drives liberal Jews to distraction when […]

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The Origins of Anti-Zionism

Jonathan Marc Gribetz Tablet, Aug. 4, 2024 “And when Berger spoke, Palestinian nationalists and their Arab supporters listened.” Rabbi Elmer Berger was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1908 and studied at the University of Cincinnati before undertaking rabbinical studies at Hebrew Union College. After his ordination in 1932, he served as rabbi of various Reform […]

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Jews for Kamala are Living in Denial

David Mamet Unherd, Aug. 9, 2024 “The proximate solution to Jewish vulnerability — which I saw but did not say — was not in persuading others to think differently, but in so-persuading oneself.”   How may one today elide the choice between defending the Jewish State’s right to exist, and support for its determined assassins? […]

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Communiqué: Comment l’Iran tentera-t-elle de venger la mort d’Haniyeh

Citation de la semaine:   « Une armée sans agents secrets est exactement comme un homme sans yeux ni oreilles. » Sun Tzu, L’Art de la guerre _____________________________________________________                                        Table des Matières _____________________________________________________ Iran: les médias expliquent le retard […]

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Daily Briefing: ISRAEL RETHINKS ITS MILITARY STRATEGIES

SHABBAT READING   The Opening Of Devarim: A Recounting or Different Version of the Wilderness Experience?:  Dr. Rabbi Zev Farber, The Torah.com,  July 1, 2013  — Where does the book of Deuteronomy begin? This may seem like a simple question—surely a book starts at chapter 1 verse 1! But Deuteronomy turns out to be more complicated than […]

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