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SHAVUOS APPEAL 2024 INVEST IN OUR STUDENTS

MESSAGE FROM PROFESSOR FREDERICK KRANTZ                                                                                         June 6, 2024Dear CIJR Friend,As Israel […]

Western Wall, Jerusalem, Shavuot (Wikipedia)

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Daily Briefing: SHAVUOT: CELEBRATING OUR JEWISHNESS IN TIMES OF SORROW

WHO WE REALLY ARE Why This Year’s Shavuot Is One of the Most Important Ever:  Moshe Hauer, Algemeiner, June 10, 2024 — Beginning Tuesday evening, June 11, Jews all over the world celebrate Shavuot and commemorate the day they received the Torah and its commandments at Sinai. Land or Torah: What Binds Israel as a Nation?:  Dr. […]

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The Torah forms the basis and foundation of Judaism . The first five books known as "Five Books of Moses" correspond to Torah.- Wikipedia

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Shavuot – The Democratization of Knowledge

Jeffrey Levine The Times of Israel, June 9, 2024 “Trust, as a path to enlightenment, often leads to vulnerability, which in turn fosters bravery. Bravery cultivates connection, connection leads to purpose, and purpose enriches life.” As we approach Shavuot, we commemorate the momentous occasion of receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai. Rabbi Jonathan Sacks profoundly […]

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An illustration from the aforementioned book, published 1723 in Amsterdam- Wikipedia

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Land or Torah: What Binds Israel as a Nation?

Dr. Tzvi Novick The Torah.com, May 27, 2020 “Thus, if in the first stage of Israel’s covenantal history, at Sinai, the people accept responsibility only for sins committed openly, in the second stage, upon entering the land of Israel, they are compelled to accept responsibility also for concealed sins.” Mutual Covenantal Responsibility at Sinai The […]

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Biblical illustration of Book of Ruth Chapter 1- Wikipedia

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“Wherever You Go, I Will Go”: Reading Ruth 1:16-17

Leon Kass and Hannah Mandelbaum Jewish Review of Books, May 11, 2021 “… her words bespeak a profound desire—and capacity—for loyal and devoted friendship, that lifelong being-together of souls that, as much as is possible and beyond any mere concourse of bodies, can overcome the isolation and separation of human beings.” The recently widowed Ruth […]

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From the Book of Ruth to Swords of Iron: Malkhut in Our Time

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The Book of Books, June 3, 2024 “… she addresses the theological implications of October 7th for a person of faith:  “a great miracle did not occur, we did not find the jar of oil.” Instead of discovering a miracle from above, ben Yosef sings, “we discovered ourselves.””  The upcoming holiday of Shavuot evokes the […]

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ISRAEL RESCUES HOSTAGES, WORLD CONDEMNS ISRAEL

PRONOUNCED ABSURDITY BBC Asks Why IDF Didn’t Warn Gazans on Secret Raid:ILH staff, Israel Hayom, June 8, 2024 — Former IDF spokesperson Jonathan Conricus pushed back against a suggestion by BBC news anchor Helena Humphrey Sunday after she said the Israeli military should have given Palestinians advance warning on Saturday’s hostage rescue operation. EU’s Foreign Minister, Countries Around World, Condemn Rescue Op […]

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A joyous wave of the hand and a tense searching look by homecoming Air France hostages, who were rescued from Entebbe Airport.- Wikipedia

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At the Level of Entebbe’

Yaakov Lappin JNS, June 9, 2024 “The scale of the rehearsals was as large as the [1976] Entebbe operation—[in terms of] the models we used, as well as the way in which we trained, and we had to make sure that everything was done simultaneously,” he said.  Saturday’s hostage rescue operation in central Gaza could not […]

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Jubilant Over the Hostage Rescue, Netanyahu Knows More Difficult Times Lie Ahead

Amir Bar Shalom Times of Israel, June 9, 2024 “The question now is how Saturday’s successful rescue will affect the negotiations to release the 120 hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza. Right now, these talks are on hold as all sides wait for Hamas’s response to the latest Israeli proposal for a deal, approved […]

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"Traditional media, i.e.'mainstream media' is now irrelevant. The new society is ruled by tribal societies in the digital space. Nation state lines in the sand are meaningless." - James Scott (Source: Flickr)

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The Biggest Media Scandal of the Era Has Arrived

Seth Mandel Commentary Magazine, June 7, 2024 “Hamas showed reporters shrouds and told them what was in them, and the reporters dutifully repeated what they were told.”   Now it can be told! Hamas lied that people died. The Associated Press has an analysis up today that reveals—I hope you’re sitting down for this—that the Hamas/UN casualty […]

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The World Doesn’t Get to Choose How Israel Rescues Its Hostages – Analysis

Herb Keinon Jerusalem Post, June 9, 2024 “The whole civilian issue here really needs to be analyzed impartially and understood.” Some 44 years ago, Britain’s Special Air Service (SAS) carried out a daring rescue operation to free some 20 hostages being held at the Iranian embassy in London. Twelve years ago, the British Special Boat Service, supported […]

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English: The President of Israel, Isaac Herzog, welcomes US President Joe Biden at Ben Gurion Airport upon landing in Israel. Wednesday, July 13, 2022. Photo credit: Haim Zach / GPO.- WIKIPEDIA

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Daily Briefing: BIDEN PROPOSES CEASEFIRE DEAL EMPOWERING HAMAS

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SHABBAT READING Liminal Space:  BAMIDBAR • 5771, 5784, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, The Rabbi Sacks Legacy — In English, the book we begin this week is called Numbers, and for an obvious reason. It begins with a census, and there is even a second count toward the end of the book. On this view, the central theme of the book is demography. […]

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