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Friday, June 2nd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
SHABBAT READING Birkat Kohanim: The Magic of a Blessing: Prof. Shawna Dolansky, The Torah.com, Jan. 15, 2016 — Many of us are familiar with the priestly benediction (birkat hakohanim) from the liturgy, found in Numbers 6:24-26. A sensational archaeological find by Gabriel Barkay in 1979 demonstrates the antiquity of this blessing at least as far back […]
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Yair Rosenberg The Atlantic, May 16, 2023 “These days, if you want to find the latest conspiracy theories trending on Twitter, the easiest thing to do is to check tweets Elon Musk replies to, you’ll find most of them.” Last night, Elon Musk made two rookie social-media mistakes: He tweeted after 10 p.m., and […]
Alan M. Dershowitz WSJ, May 21, 2023 “Every Wednesday morning at 8 o’clock, a group at Human Rights Watch got together and discussed issues with the managers. I was an active participant in that group, and human rights remains an important element of my foundation’s current activities.” Elon Musk has been accused of anti-Semitism because […]
Christiaan Hetzner Fortune, May 16, 2023 “The comparison to Magneto is problematic to contemporary comics fans, as the character has joined the roster of the X-Men multiple times, most recently in 2019, when (spoiler alert) he co-founded a breakaway mutant island nation called Krakoa, which some critics have compared to Israel.” Elon Musk lashed […]
Thursday, December 8th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Laptopgate “Reading between the lines of all available evidence, you can find an organized effort by the bureau to put its thumb on the scale for Joe Biden’s campaign.” – Andrew C. McCarthy “A FRANKENSTEINIAN TALE” Thread: THE Twitter FILES: Matt Taibi, Twitter, Dec. 2, 2022 — What you’re about to read is the first installment […]
Mary Harrington UnHerd, Dec. 7, 2022 “The Biden administration is fond of talking about “democracy” versus “autocracy,” but it might be more accurate to talk about swarmism and Caesarism. Swarmism is a kind of post-democratic democracy: a mutant form of liberal proceduralism, characterised by collective decision-making in which no one is ever individually […]
David Harsanyi The Federalist, Dec. 6, 2022 “… the Hunter story — with receipts, hard evidence, and on-the-record witnesses — had far more journalistic substantiation than virtually any of the anonymous one-source Russia-collusion “scoops” that Bump and The Washington Post peddled for years.” A rant. Mostly because the evidence confirms all my […]
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