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Friday, September 30th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
SHABBAT READING The Psalm of the Shofar: Its Use in Liturgy and its Meaning in the Bible: Prof. Alan Cooper, TheTorah.com, September 2022 — The standard machzorim of today, following the reading of the haftara, introduce the ceremonial sounding of the shofar with Psalm 47. The psalm is recited seven times in many congregations, a late custom […]
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Karim Sadjadpour Washington Post, Sept. 24, 2022 “The unrest triggered by Amini’s death should push the Biden administration to reassess its Iran strategy.” The death in Iran of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini — who was reportedly brutally beaten after she was detained by the “morality police” for showing too much hair — has triggered nationwide protests, […]
Benoit Faucan and Michael Amon WSJ, Sept. 28, 2022 “Growing up in Iran, it’s impossible to know someone, a young woman who has not been arrested because of allegedly wearing her hijab improperly.” The protests that have erupted across Iran in the past two weeks are rooted in anger at the country’s morality police, an unpopular […]
David E. Sanger NY Times, Sept 26, 2022 “… there were hints that the administration was looking for ways to get Starlink, in particular, into the hands of protesters.” The last time waves of protests swept Iran, after the killing of a young woman who was standing on the sidelines of an anti-government rally […]
Benni Avni The New York Sun, Sept. 27, 2022 “It reinforces the regime’s narrative that the protest is foreign-controlled to distract and deflect [but]the protesters see right through it.” Unable to quell a revolution sparked by the killing of a 22-year old Kurdish-Iranian woman for violating Hijab rules, Tehran is attacking Kurds at home and […]
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