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Tuesday, March 26th 2024 / Monday, March 25th 2024

Caroline B. Glick JNS, Mar. 22, 2024 “The discourse on Israel’s war in Gaza is suffused in blood libels.” According to Canada’s La Presse, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a vampire, and he is poised to suck the life out of the Palestinians in Rafah, Hamas’s final outpost in southern Gaza. The publication that was […]

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Tuesday, March 26th 2024 / Monday, March 25th 2024

Gabby Deutch Jewish Insider, Mar. 25, 2024 “Do I stay and keep fighting this battle on an issue that I care so much about?  Or do I say, OK, well, it’s now gotten to a point where I’m no longer at home here, and my community’s telling me they’re no longer at home?”  Canadian MP […]

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Tuesday, March 26th 2024 / Monday, March 25th 2024

Chavi Feldman Times of Israel, Mar. 20, 2024 “I’m glad my grandparents aren’t alive to see what’s become of this world; what’s become of the Canada that had reluctantly offered them a safe haven back then. It’s certainly not the same Canada that I grew up in, that I truly loved.” When you grow up […]

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Tuesday, March 26th 2024 / Monday, March 25th 2024

Brian Lilley Toronto Sun, Mar. 18, 2024 “The entire chaotic day wasn’t really about foreign affairs, not for the Liberals and NDP, it was about shoring up support in the growing Muslim voting bloc.” Utter chaos. That is what the House of Commons descended into on Monday, especially Monday night just before an important vote on […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Monday, March 25th 2024 / Monday, March 25th 2024

ENOUGH BLAME TO GO AROUND Walled Cities “from the Time of Joshua” Celebrate Shushan Purim – Why:  Prof. Eyal Ben-Eliyahu, The Torah.com, Mar. 4, 2020 — Explaining the origins of the Purim festival, Esther chapter 9 describes how the Jews throughout Persia defeated their enemies on the 13th of Adar and celebrated on the 14th (v. 17). We are […]

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Monday, March 25th 2024 / Sunday, March 24th 2024

  Barry Shaw, Israel Hayom, Mar. 22, 2024 Joe Biden is, once again, at loggerheads with Israel. This has been brewing for decades. Biden infamously admitted telling Benjamin Netanyahu, “Bibi I love you, but I don’t agree with a damn thing you say.” Biden seems to have learned nothing from his personal contentious relationship with Israel going back decades. […]

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Monday, March 25th 2024 / Sunday, March 24th 2024

    Leanne Stillerman Zabow, Times of Israel, Mar. 25, 2024 This is our first Purim in Israel as olim (immigrants). I heard the question “how can we celebrate and be happy at such a time”? asked several times. The resounding idea came through that even more so, we should celebrate this year. We are […]

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Monday, March 25th 2024 / Sunday, March 24th 2024

Stuart Halpern WSJ, Mar. 21, 2024 “Purim’s story reminds its readers that though what the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks called the “dignity of difference” might be intolerable for some, pride in Jewish particularism serves as the wellspring of salvation.” Jews have always been a biblically minded people, but this year one ancient story feels tragically resonant. Synagogues […]

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Monday, March 25th 2024 / Sunday, March 24th 2024

Rabbi Wendy Zierler The Torah.com, Mar. 17, 2016 “Purim merits repeated reassertion and preservation as an enduring truth in modern times and beyond not merely because it serves as a yearly reminder of Jewish vulnerability in exile and our gratitude for all the salvation that chance has sent our way but because it is the holiday […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Friday, March 22nd 2024

SHABBAT READING   Purim: Mocking Persia’s Dat and Reaccepting the Torah:  Rachel Friedman, The Torah.com, May 3, 2023 — The book of Esther centers on the action and intrigue at the royal court of King Ahasuerus in the Persian capital of Shushan (Susa), repeatedly calling attention to its silliness and eccentricities.[1] Nowhere does the Persian court appear more […]

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Friday, March 22nd 2024 / Thursday, March 21st 2024

Philologos Mosaic Magazine, Mar. 16, 2023 “Hamas, however, is not a people. It is an organization. And when Netanyahu compared it to Amalek, he was calling for the extermination of an organization every last one of whose combatants Israel does want to see dead and with good reason.”   “The word Amalek is now as common as […]

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Friday, March 22nd 2024 / Thursday, March 21st 2024

Stuart Halpern Tablet, Mar. 21, 2024 “A humble young woman thrust onto a stage she never expected to step on to, a scheming and irredeemably wicked antagonist, and a society hoping that by virtue of its faith it might merit heavenly favor have served as the concocted elements of countless American moments.”   Twenty-three years […]