Analysis
Thursday, April 4th 2024 / Thursday, April 4th 2024
Gabby Deutsch Jewish Insider, Mar. 29, 2024 “The good news is that Sen. Lieberman will be the best boss you will have in your career and the bad news is that you will never have another boss as good as him.” As the first Jewish person on a major party presidential ticket, Joe […]
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Thursday, April 4th 2024
Rabbi Ethan Tucker/JTA Jerusalem Post, Apr. 3, 2024 “Nothing was done except for principle, sometimes to his political benefit, sometimes not. You knew where he stood, and based on where he stood, you knew how he would respond.” How do we live a life of principle and integrity, without closing ourselves off from […]
Cliff Smith Deseret News, Apr. 1, 2024 “Lieberman, unlike the rest, chose to expend his capital, against his own political self-interest, to win the war, long after the fateful choice to invade had been made.” A truly great leader is a person who, when in a position to affect important events, makes the […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Wednesday, April 3rd 2024 / Wednesday, April 3rd 2024
Will Israel’s Government Collapse Due to the IDF Haredi Draft Crisis? – Analysis: Eliav Breuer, Jerusalem Post, Apr. 1, 2024 — The political ramifications of the High Court of Justice’s ruling on Thursday – that beginning on April 1 the state can no longer refrain from drafting haredi men into the IDF, and that state funding to […]
Wednesday, April 3rd 2024
Tzvi Joffre Unpacked, Mar. 31, 2024 “We recognize the fact that the state was established as a secular state, and we do not expect it to be religious. But as such, it cannot put our children into a melting pot that will turn them into secularists, just as the secularists will not agree to forcibly bring […]
Shalom Lipner Atlantic Council, Mar. 14, 2024 “Consenting to a wholesale Haredi exemption at the exact moment when hundreds of thousands of IDF regulars and reservists are being asked to assume additional burdens would be untenable.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “viability as leader” and “governing coalition” may both “be in jeopardy,” according to […]
Aryeh Erlich Ynet News, Feb. 26, 2024 “Any discussion on the subject can only take place after the other side accepts that the ultra-Orthodox public sees itself as committed to the mission of Torah study and holds that value above all else.” Since the October 7 massacre, the question of the participation of ultra-Orthodox […]
Herb Keinon Jerusalem Post, Apr. 1, 2024 “Hamas’s attack on October 7 spelled the end of judicial reform, meaning that the haredim would find it difficult to get the type of law they wanted giving wholesale deferments past the High Court of Justice.” Ultra-Orthodox men aged 18 to 26 who – as of April […]
Tuesday, April 2nd 2024
WATCH: 180 for 180 OU Letter Writing Campaign to Washington to Free the Hostages: OU.org/180 [Orthodox Union] 180 Letters to the White House for 180 Days in Turmoil! Sign your letter NOW! _____________________________________________ MORAL CLARITY American Christians Should Stand with Israel under Attack: Russell Moore, Christianity Today, Oct. 7, 2023 — Americans awoke this morning to reports of war […]
Tuesday, April 2nd 2024 / Monday, April 1st 2024
Marina Rosenberg Providence, Feb. 6, 2024 “A recent poll conducted by the Israel Democracy Institute found that among Arab Israeli Christians, 73 percent shared a sense of belonging to the State of Israel, and over 90 percent responded that their relations with Jews were not impacted following Hamas’ October 7 massacre and Israel’s retaliation.” During Christmas last […]
Giles Fraser Unherd, Apr. 1, 2024 “There is a radical anti-Israeli side to Palestinian Christianity.” Tourists almost never find their way to Levanda Street in southern Tel Aviv. Round the corner from the monstrous concrete central bus station, it looks dirty and feels dangerous. Drug addicts, most of them immigrants from east Africa, many […]
Sophia Lee Christianity Today, Mar. 18, 2024 “That’s the Israel-Palestine conundrum: Generally speaking, for Jews, “peace” means Israel’s lasting security and protection; it means crushing Hamas, even at the cost of significant human casualties. For Palestinians, “peace” means a restoration of land and dignity that they lost after the founding of the State of Israel.” Just […]
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