Isranet Daily Briefing

Monday, June 18th 2012 / Tuesday, June 19th 2012

THE RHETORIC OF NONSENSE Alexander H. Joffe Middle East Quarterly, Summer 2012, pp. 15-22 For nearly two decades the Palestinian Authority (PA) has been denying Israel’s right to exist, and a recent “Nakba Day” was no exception. In a Gaza speech on behalf of Mahmoud Abbas, his personal representative made the following statement: “National reconciliation […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Monday, June 18th 2012 / Monday, June 18th 2012

Over the weekend, Egypt held the final round of its presidential election, a run-off pitting Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi against ex-army man Ahmed Shafiq.   Despite claims of victory by both candidates, preliminary results show Morsi winning approximately 51.6 percent of the vote compared to 48.4 percent for Shafiq, with nearly all ballots counted. […]

Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing

Friday, June 15th 2012 / Tuesday, June 26th 2012

  RESTONS EN DEHORS DU BOURBIER SYRIEN Daniel Pipes The Washington Times, 13 juin 2012 Adaptation française: Anne-Marie Delcambre de Champvert Alors que le gouvernement syrien fait des efforts de plus en plus désespérés et brutaux pour garder le pouvoir, les plaidoyers pour une intervention militaire, plus ou moins sur le modèle libyen, se font […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Friday, June 15th 2012 / Friday, June 15th 2012

BREAKING NEWS:   “The Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court has just invalidated the parliamentary election there. The parliament, 75 percent of whose members were Islamists, is being dissolved. The military junta has taken over total authority. The presidential election is still scheduled for a few dozen hours from now. In short, everything is confused and everything […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Thursday, June 14th 2012 / Thursday, June 14th 2012

CLINTON HIGHLIGHTS GAPS BETWEEN US AND ISRAEL ON IRAN Herb Keinon Jerusalem Post, June 8, 2012 Differences between Israel and the US over the world powers’ negotiating strategy with Iran came into the open [last] Thursday when US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talked of the need for Iran to come to nuclear talks ready […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Wednesday, June 13th 2012 / Wednesday, June 13th 2012

“Dear Mr. President: We write to urge you to exercise your power of clemency and commute Jonathan Pollard’s prison sentence to time served.… Mr. Pollard has now served more than 25 years in prison, many of which in solitary confinement, for his actions. There is no doubt that he has paid a heavy price, and, […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Monday, June 11th 2012 / Tuesday, June 12th 2012

Today, the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research is holding its 24th Anniversary Gala. Keynoting the event is Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, recently elected to serve as one of the vice presidents for September’s 67th General Assembly, only the third Israeli diplomat ever bestowed such an honor. Renowned British journalist Melanie Phillips, […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Monday, June 11th 2012 / Monday, June 11th 2012

CIJR’S 24TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATES A BANNER YEAR! Frederick Krantz   The Canadian Institute for Jewish Research’s twenty-fourth anniversary marks a banner year of solid achievements, enabling us to look forward to an even more significant quarter-century celebration in 2013. For openers, we have increased our Canada-wide reach by instituting an active Toronto Chapter, co-chaired by […]

Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing

Friday, June 8th 2012 / Tuesday, June 26th 2012

  COMMENT LA BARBARIE S'INSTALLE EN FRANCE Ivan Rioufol upjf.org, 4 juin 2012 [Le 4 juin dernier], les mouvements antiracistes n’avaient toujours pas fait connaître leurs réactions à l’information, connue depuis hier : samedi soir, à Villeurbanne (Rhône), trois jeunes juifs portant la kippa ont été agressés par une dizaine d’individus qui les ont frappés […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Thursday, June 7th 2012 / Friday, June 8th 2012

CIJR GOES INTERNATIONAL ENTERING 25TH YEAR Janice Arnold Canadian Jewish News, June 1, 2012 In a cluttered, cramped downtown office, Alex Enescu, a Romanian-born, non-Jewish Concordia University student, and 92-year-old Baruch Cohen, a survivor of the Romanian Holocaust, are colleagues. They work at the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research (CIJR), both, in their own way, […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Thursday, June 7th 2012 / Thursday, June 7th 2012

JUNE 7, 1967: JERUSALEM REUNIFIED   On June 7, 1967, exactly 45 years ago today, Israel Defense Forces paratroopers advanced through the Old City towards the Western Wall, bringing Jerusalem’s holiest site under Jewish control for the first time in 2,000 years.   The leader of the brigade, Lt. General Mordechai (Motta) Gur, communicated the […]

Analysis

Thursday, June 7th 2012

Lehman, Marjorie. The En Yaakov: Jacob ibn Habib’s Search for Faith in the Talmudic Corpus. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2012. xi + 319 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8143-3480-5.   It is most often taken for granted that rabbinic Judaism, out of which all present day interpretations of Judaism developed, is based on the writings of the […]