Analysis
Wednesday, October 16th 2024
Scott Walker Washington Times, Oct. 10, 2024 “Over and over again, we will counter attempts to glorify terrorists and their evil deeds with the truth about the horrors of Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran and all others who seek to harm Israel and Jewish people around the world. They continue trying to intimidate us, but we will not back […]
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Tuesday, August 13th 2024
Canaan Lidor Times of Israel, Aug. 12, 2024 “Tisha B’Av invokes October 7 not because of the onslaught’s death toll — the highest of any massacre of Jews since the Holocaust — but because “our identity is now once again linked to pain, loss, and tragedy that makes Tisha B’Av one of deeper meaning, prayer, […]
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Tuesday, August 13th 2024 / Tuesday, August 13th 2024
INCREASING TIES Podcast: J.J. Schacter on the First Tisha b’Av Since October 7: Tikvah podcast at Mosaic, Aug. 2, 2024 — On the 9th day of the Hebrew month of Av in the year 586 BCE, Nebuchadnezzar and his Babylonian forces destroyed the Temple in Jerusalem. Original Tisha B’Av Documentary: Heroism and Faith amid the […]
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks The Rabbi Sacks Legacy, July 28, 2014 “What the Torah tells us early on is how humanity failed. They did so in two ways. They created freedom without order. Or they created order without freedom. That is still the human tragedy.” Nine days from now Jewish communities around the world […]
Tanya White Times of Israel, Aug. 9, 2024 “The current war Israel is fighting has suffered from many failures, one of the greatest of which is the failure of the echelons of leadership to provide an effective narrative.” At the end of the hit musical “Hamilton,” there is a song whose lyrics continue […]
Prof. Rabbi Marty Lockshin The Torah.com, July 31, 2022 “ … at times, the voices in Lamentations interrupt each other within the same verse.[19] According to this Talmudic interpretation cited by Rashi, God would be the one interrupting here, but, as Greenstein writes, the one voice that is conspicuously absent from the book of Lamentations […]
Saul J. Singer Jewish Press, Aug. 7, 2024 “As the sun set over Jerusalem the Golden reunited at last, Jews of all backgrounds and ethnicities gathered at the Wall on Tisha B’Av for the first time in two millennia. Sitting on the hallowed ground holding small candles, they participated in thousands of small minyanim […]
Monday, April 22nd 2024
Rabbi Dr. Norman Solomon The Torah.com, Mar. 15, 2024 “I hope that, just as we welcome all four ‘sons’ to our table and read to each according to his needs, we can also welcome all four readers, and take from each according to our needs, and the needs of our generation.” You don’t have to be a […]
Friday, March 22nd 2024
SHABBAT READING Purim: Mocking Persia’s Dat and Reaccepting the Torah: Rachel Friedman, The Torah.com, May 3, 2023 — The book of Esther centers on the action and intrigue at the royal court of King Ahasuerus in the Persian capital of Shushan (Susa), repeatedly calling attention to its silliness and eccentricities.[1] Nowhere does the Persian court appear more […]
Friday, March 22nd 2024 / Thursday, March 21st 2024
Philologos Mosaic Magazine, Mar. 16, 2023 “Hamas, however, is not a people. It is an organization. And when Netanyahu compared it to Amalek, he was calling for the extermination of an organization every last one of whose combatants Israel does want to see dead and with good reason.” “The word Amalek is now as common as […]
Rabbi Haim Jachter Jewish Link, Mar. 7, 2024 “… the Jews took the necessary steps to defend themselves in a situation in which they were in mortal danger. Moreover, the Jews defended themselves in a measured and disciplined manner.” Some critics wrongly label our self-defense on the 13th of Adar as a massacre. This […]
Yoram Hazony Commentary Magazine, March 2016 “Strength attracts strength, and power attracts power. Thus the weak, to the degree they can make themselves seem strong, can attract the support of the strong, thereby becoming strong in reality.” As the book of Esther reaches its climax, the Jews of Persia have turned political defeat into political […]
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