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Thursday, November 9th 2023 / Thursday, November 9th 2023
Pro-ceasefire Liberal MPs see Trudeau’s Call For ‘Humanitarian Pauses’ As First Step To Ending Israel-Hamas Hostilities: Catherine Lévesque, National Post, Oct. 25, 2023 — Some Liberal MPs who have been calling on their government to support an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war said Wednesday that they see the “humanitarian pauses” supported by Prime Minister Justin […]
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Thursday, November 9th 2023 / Wednesday, November 8th 2023
David Bezmozgis The Globe and Mail, Nov. 3, 2023 “In the weeks since Hamas massacred some 1,400 Israelis and abducted more than 200 others into Gaza, Jews around the world, including in Canada and the United States, have come to the shocking realization that a significant number of their fellow citizens are indifferent to their pain, openly celebrate […]
Wednesday, November 8th 2023 / Wednesday, November 8th 2023
Epoch Times, Nov. 6, 2023 “The fact that we now see hundreds of people in the streets rallying in support of Hamas’ barbarity is no surprise since these groups have operated without impunity.” Canada and other countries have seen a steady stream of protests against Israel and in support of Palestine since the […]
Friday, November 3rd 2023 / Friday, November 3rd 2023
SHABBAT READING: The Binding of Isaac: A New Interpretation (Vayera): 5771, 5784: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, The Rabbi Sacks Legacy — It is the hardest passage of all, one that seems to defy understanding. Abraham and Sarah have waited years for a child. God has promised them repeatedly that they would have many descendants, as many […]
Tuesday, October 31st 2023 / Tuesday, October 31st 2023
INCREASING TIES Antisemitic or Pro-Palestinian?: America’s New Majority Project, Oct. 25, 2023 — Majorities or pluralities of Americans agree that key sentiments expressed by anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian politicians and protesters are antisemitic. ________________________________________________________ The Islamo-left is a Menace to Jews and Decency: Brendan O’Neill, Spiked, Oct. 22, 2023 Jews Are Being Abandoned by the Left: Joel Kotkin, National Post, […]
Friday, October 27th 2023 / Tuesday, October 31st 2023
SHABBAT READING When Peace Fails: Psalm 120: Prof. Adele Berlin, The Torah.com, Oct. 26, 2023 — In these troubled times we often look to psalms to express our feelings and to find hope. Psalm 120 seems especially relevant now. It begins by calling on God for protection from the deceptive speech of the speaker’s enemies: שיר המעלות קכ:א שִׁיר הַמַּעֲלוֹת […]
Thursday, October 19th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Brendan O’Neill Spiked, Oct. 18, 2023 “… there is something else we need to investigate, too – the supine willingness of our own liberal elites to parrot the Hamas line that this was definitely an Israeli strike and proof of Israel’s evil. It is not enough to investigate where the missile came from – we […]
Walter Russel Mead WSJ, Oct. 16, 2023 “The cynicism of Iran’s mullahs and their enablers is, in the end, the most shocking. Set aside the Israeli casualties and the blood of innocent Jewish children. Those who claim to rule Iran in God’s name do not care how many Palestinians die in the service of their […]
Friday, October 13th 2023 / Wednesday, November 1st 2023
The Sound (of Prayer) and the Fury: Daniel Gordis, Israel from the Inside, Oct. 13, 2023 — We’ll start with the mood in Israel. We’ll go on to a project that people can support if they’d like to help Israelis who have lost everything. A dog story. And we’ll end with a prayer now […]
Thursday, October 12th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Bret Stephans NY Times, Oct. 10, 2023 “Something similar must be said about a much broader swath of the left that looks in heartfelt horror at what happened on Saturday but rarely stops to wonder whether it played any role in creating the moral and intellectual climate for what has unfolded.” On Saturday morning […]
Tuesday, August 15th 2023 / Friday, November 3rd 2023
Cary Nelson Jewish Journal, Aug. 8, 2023 “When you also add “slavery, patriarchy, colonialism, orientalism, homophobia, ableism, capitalism” to the mix, as Larson does, declaring all these as things your course will righteously oppose, you turn critical and political theory into hogwash.” Jasbir Puar, the well-known Rutgers University Professor of Women’s Studies, has a […]
Tuesday, August 1st 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Max Samarov Algemeiner, July 19, 2023 “When Jews raised concerns and asked to be included as well, the districtresponded that, “Jewish Studies and Israeli Studies are not part of the Ethnic Studies discipline.” In June 2023, the Hayward Unified School District (HUSD) in Northern California signed a contract worth over $90,000, with a group called the Liberated […]
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