Isranet Daily Briefing
Friday, October 14th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
What Are We Celebrating on Simchas Torah?: Rabbi Michael Taubes, Sukkot-to-Go, 5783 — The joyous holiday of Sukkos, and indeed the entire Yomim Noraim season, culminates with our celebrating the completion of our yearly Kerias HaTorah cycle with the reading of Parshas VeZos HaBerachah, the last parshah in the Chumash. ANICENT BOOK: MODERN QUESTIONS WATCH: […]
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Sholom Aleichem Tablet, Oct. 9, 2020 “I took stock of all the other flags, then looked back at my own. What a contrast. Theirs weren’t even fit to hold a candle to mine. My flag was the most successful of all, for who had as much wax as me?” When I was a little […]
Philologos Mosaic Magazine, Sept. 20, 2018 “But was this an actual Simḥat Torah service? I have my doubts.” “One of the most famous foundational stories in the narrative of Anglo-Jewry,” it was called by Tablet several years ago. The online Jewish magazine was referring to an entry in the diary of the British statesman Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), […]
Prof. Rabbi Marty Lockshin The Torah.com, Oct. 9, 2022 “Is this modern-sounding idea—that life without progress is meaningless—really Kohelet’s worldview?” In 1855, Adolph Jellinek (1821–1893) published a commentary on Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) from a late 13th century manuscript in Codex hebr. 32 (henceforth, “Hamburg 32”). The copyist opens the commentary with the words פי’ של ר’ שמואל […]
Tuesday, September 13th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
HISTORY MADE FLESH Queen Elizabeth’s Unwavering Service Through a Tumultuous Time in World History: Conrad Black, National Post, Sept. 10, 2022 — The email message from a learned reader of my American columns, a cyber friend in Alabama, read, in its entirety: “She was the most admired and respected person in the entire world.” Thus […]
Amy Spiro Times of Israel, Sept. 8, 2022 “In 2000, the queen inaugurated Britain’s first permanent memorial to the Holocaust,” Queen Elizabeth II, who sat on the throne for 70 years until her death on Thursday, enjoyed a long and warm relationship with the British Jewish community, from the start of her reign in 1952 through […]
Jeremy Havardi JTA, Sept. 9, 2022 “British Jews are feeling the loss of this remarkable monarch as much as their gentile counterparts.” The death 0f Queen Elizabeth II after 70 years on the throne is a devastating loss for Britain, the Commonwealth and the free world. It is hard to overstate the sense […]
David P. Goldman PJ Media, Sept. 8, 2022 “Democracy without an overarching sense of the sacred would be a nightmare.” Americans rarely grasp the extent to which the British people invested their monarch with a sense of sanctity. Elizabeth II personified the “mystic chords of memory” that bind a country together with a national […]
Itamar Sharon and TOI Staff Times of Israel, Sept. 10, 2022 “The world must “be fearless in confronting falsehoods and resolute in resisting words and acts of violence. We must tend the earth of our societies so that the seeds of division cannot take root and grow.” With the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, […]
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