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Wednesday, October 16th 2024
REVELATORY JOURNEY WATCH: Unlocking the Mystery of Sukkot through the Book of Ecclesiastes: The Lessons of Kohelet: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, The Rabbi Sacks Legacy — Friends, Succot. I want to share with you a journey. A long journey, actually, but not a difficult one but a really, really revelatory one, as to the nature of Succot. And […]
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Meir Y. Soloveichik Commentary Magazine, October 2023 “But that was not all that Yadin found. The cavern contained letters from Bar Kochba himself, including one written in advance of the Sukkot holiday, referencing the ritual of waving a lulav, a palm frond:” Striking archeological discoveries are a constant in Israel, but they can still occasionally inspire wonder. […]
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Dovid Bashevkin Tablet, Sept. 1, 2021 “I don’t know why we long so for permanence,” writes the philosopher and physicist Alan Lightman, “why the fleeting nature of things so disturbs.” Most Jewish holidays are easy to explain to your non-Jewish colleagues. Many, if not most, know about Passover, and after enough years with enough Jewish […]
Scott Walker Washington Times, Oct. 10, 2024 “Over and over again, we will counter attempts to glorify terrorists and their evil deeds with the truth about the horrors of Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran and all others who seek to harm Israel and Jewish people around the world. They continue trying to intimidate us, but we will not back […]
Melanie Phillips JNS, Oct. 10, 2024 “These Jews have a choice. They can recognize the unique value of the inherited, specific precepts of Judaism that have bound the Jewish people together over the centuries and enabled it to survive every culture that has tried to annihilate it. Or else they can stick with a Western culture […]
Tuesday, October 15th 2024
MESSAGE RECEIVED The Extremism of Ta-Nehisi Coates: Ethan Strauss and Park MacDougald, The Scroll, Oct 11, 2024 — The fallout continues over Ta-Nehisi Coates and his new anti-Israel book, The Message. The Championing of Ta-Nehisi Coates Exposes the Media’s Gross Bias: Melissa Langsam Braunstein, Jewish Chronicle, Oct. 15, 2024 — Publicising his new book, The Message, on Trevor Noah’s podcast, […]
Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, Oct. 9. 2024 “The message this sends to all journalists at the news network is that they better not ask any tough questions when interviewing those who advocate for the end of Israel.” There are times when terrible books can be useful. In the case of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ truly awful The […]
*** David Harsanyi Washington Examiner, Oct. 1, 2024 “Coates is less a one-note thinker than a toddler banging on a snare drum with a mallet.” Ta-Nehisi Coates begins the Israeli-Palestinian section of his new book, The Message, with a visit to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem. The excursion, taken on the last day of his 10-day junket to […]
Barton Swain The Washington Free Beacon, Oct. 13, 2024 “With The Message, Ta-Nehisi Coates has become a clownish, postmodern Walter Duranty.” Rarely has a book been so lavishly applauded as Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me was in 2015. The book fetched gushing reviews, admiring interviews in prestigious media, won eminent literary prizes, and almost instantly […]
Jeffrey Blahar National Review, Oct. 9, 2024 “Essentially, he was formally and professionally condemned by his own company for asking pointed questions of a person pre-designated as a saint: the crime of lèse-majesté.’ The mainstream media has been afire over the past week about a major internal controversy at CBS, where CBS Mornings anchor Tony Dokoupil has been called […]
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Monday, October 14th 2024 / Monday, October 14th 2024
Citation de la semaine: « Les principes sacrés comme le nom du Seigneur ne doivent pas être utilisés en vain – pour soutenir une escroquerie, pour dissimuler une injustice. Le principe d’autodétermination ne signifie pas que si quelqu’un s’est emparé d’une parcelle de terre, elle doit rester en sa possession pour toujours, et que celui qui […]
Friday, October 11th 2024
SHABBAT READING Jonah Leaves Us with Questions, So on Yom Kippur We End with Micah: Prof. Marc Zvi Brettler, The Torah.com, Oct. 8, 2024 — The book of Jonah is a remarkable four-scene[1] story that is both absurd and sublime.[2] The tradition of reading Jonah during the afternoon service, for many the centerpiece of the day, goes back, at […]
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