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Friday, December 1st 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
SHABBAT READING Collective Responsibility: VAYISHLACH • 5771, 5784, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, The Rabbi Sacks Legacy — By any standards it was a shocking episode. Jacob had settled on the outskirts of the town of Shechem, ruled by Hamor. Dina, Jacob’s daughter, goes out to see the town. Shechem, Hamor’s son, sees her, abducts and rapes her, and then falls in […]
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Nial Ferguson WSJ, Nov. 29, 2023 “Kissinger’s real contribution was as a strategist and negotiator. Asked in 1976 to assess his own statesmanship, he replied: “I have tried—with what success historians will have to judge—to have an overriding concept.” He combined grand strategy with indefatigable “shuttle diplomacy” and an ability to read his foreign counterparts.” […]
Robert D. Kaplan Unherd, Nov. 30, 2023 “Kissinger continues to be hated because of Vietnam. But as strange as it may seem, Kissinger and Nixon, in withdrawing from Vietnam in the bloody manner that they did, demonstrated real character: they believed that they were serving the national interest and proving their toughness to China and the Soviet […]
Editorial The New York Sun, Nov. 30, 2023 “Kissinger was stung by the disclosure of that tape. The point he wanted to make was that only hours, as we remember it, before that conversation, Nixon and Kissinger had decided to rush arms and matériel to Israel and save the Jewish state (the moment is captured […]
Friday, December 1st 2023
Charlie Summers Times of Israel, Nov. 30, 2023 “As Nixon’s right-hand man, Kissinger often bore the brunt of the president’s antisemitic remarks. The president would publicly embarrass Kissinger by referring to him as his “Jew boy,” including during a meeting with Egyptian foreign minister Ismail Fahmi.” Henry Kissinger, the controversial diplomat responsible for some of the United States’ […]
Thursday, October 26th 2023 / Tuesday, October 31st 2023
CAIR AT WORK The Hamas Network in America: A Short History: Lorenzo Vidino, Program on Extremism at George Washington University, October 2023 — Hamas supporters have long operated in the United States. Internal Hamas documents and FBI wiretaps introduced as evidence in various federal criminal cases clearly show the existence of a nationwide Hamas network engaged in […]
Benjamin Baird The Federalist, Oct. 13, 2023 “Tlaib, who is of Palestinian heritage, said Sunday that a peaceful solution “must include lifting the blockade, ending the occupation and dismantling the apartheid system that creates the suffocating, dehumanizing conditions that can lead to resistance.” In the wake of a brutal terrorist attack on Israel, members of […]
Thursday, August 3rd 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Jeff Seidel Israel Hayom, July 28, 2023 “With a deep-rooted historical and emotional connection to Israel, should American Jews have a say in what happens in the Jewish state? Perhaps they should, given the implications of Israeli policy for Jews worldwide. However, since they don’t directly bear the consequences of these policies, maybe their involvement […]
Monday, July 31st 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Zvi Bar’el Haaretz, July 17, 2023 “Israeli sources leaked information about American intentions to sign a “mini-deal,” or a limited agreement, with Iran, to replace the full nuclear agreement. And lo, shortly after … comes Iran International, known for its cozy relations with several senior Israeli figures, who reports Malley’s suspension, allegedly for mishandling classified […]
Lee Smith Tablet, July 23, 2023 “Malley must have shared something really bad with his Iranian associates because otherwise the Tehran Times account makes no sense.” In late June, reports started circulating that White House heavy Robert Malley had been suspended from his job in the Joe Biden administration. That was surprising. Before he was pushed […]
Tuesday, July 11th 2023 / Saturday, November 4th 2023
Sean Durns Washington Examiner, July 5, 2023 “Abbas’s iron fist masks a brittle hand. The authority’s control of key towns has been slipping. Iranian-backed rivals of Fatah, like Hamas and PIJ, have seen growing support in the West Bank.” America’s close ally, Israel, has launched the largest military excursion in the West Bank in nearly two decades. And a […]
Friday, March 24th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
SHABBAT READING Meeting the Challenge of Critical Scholarship with Leviticus: Dr. Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg, The Torah.com, May 17, 2016 — We are now in the opening stage of the debate in the modern Orthodox community on how to deal with critical biblical studies. Integrators One group – currently a minority, pioneering one – argues that we […]
Ashley Rindsberg Tablet, Mar. 22, 2023 “SVB’s collapse, far from being an unforeseeable “black swan,” represented “a very classic event in the very classic bubble-bursting part of the short-term debt cycle.” It should go without saying that we are now in a financial crisis. We have just witnessed the collapse or near-collapse of […]
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