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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 […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
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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Friday, October 11th 2024 / Friday, October 11th 2024
Helen Plotkin Tablet, Sept. 3, 2013 “For 10 days we live with excruciating awareness of the fact that our stories will include suffering, without any promise that we will be comforted. On Yom Kippur we give ourselves over completely to this truth.” On the High Holidays, we read a poem known by its first two […]
Dror Eydar Israel Hayom, Oct. 11, 2024 “All of this relates to repairing our relationship with God, which is, in essence, a repair of our relationship with ourselves.” 1. Recently, a wise and beautiful woman confided in me that Yom Kippur, for her, is a frightening and sad day. “I tremble at the memory of the […]
Abraham Cooper The Media Line, Oct. 11, 2024 “How in God’s name was it possible to deny on October 8 what the world witnessed on October 7? Where did Hamas learn such a strategy, and to what end? The roots of this denial trace back to the last century, to history’s greatest crime—the Holocaust. For […]
Moshe Halbertal Jewish Review of Books, Fall 2011 “The juxtaposition of law and narrative is a characteristic and important feature of the Talmud. After discussing the formal requirements for requesting forgiveness, the Talmud presents four brief stories of encounters in which rabbinic masters attempt to reconcile with those they have injured.” Near the […]
Thursday, October 10th 2024
*** My Message to the Jews: Jordan Peterson, The Standard, Oct. 4, 2024 The Antisemitism is the Point: Jim Geraghty, National Review, Oct. 7, 2024 Did the Media Coverage of October 7 and the Hamas War Lead to Increased Antisemitism?: Chaim Lax, Algemeiner, Oct. 8, 2024 Now They Won’t Even Let Jews Grieve in Peace: Brendan O’Neill, Spiked, Oct. 9, […]
Brendan O’Neill Spiked, Oct. 9, 2024 “Think about this: Jewish students marking the one-year anniversary of the worst act of anti-Semitic violence since the Holocaust were mobbed by students celebrating that violence, bigging it up as ‘resistance’. This was Jew-taunting dolled up as radical activism, the salt of Israel-hate rubbed into the wound of Jews’ […]
Jordan Peterson The Standard, Oct. 4, 2024 “What else did I conclude? That the Jews are the eternal canary in the coal mine, and that their persecution signals the downfall of a society.” I have been watching the rising tide of antisemitism for about five years. It first appeared online, manifesting itself in the form […]
Jim Geraghty National Review, Oct. 7, 2024 “If your lone measuring stick of geopolitical events was the reaction of American college students, you would think that (a) the October 7 massacre and mass rapes were a minor provocation, not even worth much discussion, and (b) the Israeli military response to that massacre is a greater […]
Chaim Lax Algemeiner, Oct. 8, 2024 “… antisemitic incidents rose (in comparison to the previous month) and the media stories that may have influenced this dangerous rise in anti-Jewish bigotry.” Since Hamas’ brutal invasion of Israel on October 7, 2023, antisemitic incidents in the United States and around the world have risen exponentially. These incidents include acts of […]
Wednesday, October 9th 2024
“USE-OVER-LOSE” Experts See Hezbollah ‘Escalation’ In Use of New Missiles, As Group Weathers Israeli Bombardment: Agnes Halou, Breaking Defence, Oct. 8, 2024 — Ten days after the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and amid an aggressive Israeli bombardment, a senior Hezbollah official today attempted to assauge any of the group’s concerns by saying its capabilities are […]
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