Analysis
Monday, November 18th 2024
Philologos Mosaic Magazine, Nov. 14, 2024 “Ultimately, “Judeo-Christian” fell out of favor for being exclusionist and anti-Muslim. Once associated with liberal values, it was increasingly identified with the illiberal political right.” In the Jewish world whose annual cycle of Torah readings recommenced last month, these are the weeks of Abraham. Last week was the […]
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Friday, January 26th 2024
Dave Gordon JNS, Jan. 12, 2024 “Our community is not powerless. Our community is strong. Our community is resilient. Our community has never been more united in its resolve to support one another and to support our Jewish state as it is right now. As truly difficult and challenging as the last few months […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Friday, January 12th 2024
SHABBAT READING Invoking Creation in the Story of the Ten Plagues: Prof. Zony Zevit, The Torah.com, Mar. 25, 2015 — The account of the ten plagues as we have it, in its final, redacted form, is a crafted piece of religious historiographical literature.[1] In my essay “The Ten Plagues and Egyptian Ecology”[2] I addressed the possibility that this account […]
Eliza Shapiro and Katherine Rosman NY Times, Jan. 9, 2024 “They did it to expand 770 and make it bigger. They have come to fulfill the rebbe’s wishes.” A decades-old fight about the direction of one of New York’s most prominent Hasidic Jewish groups tipped into chaos this week, when one faction clashed […]
Luke Tress Times of Israel, Jan. 11, 2024 “As the holiest place in the world, we have to expand. The Rebbe, the words of the rabbi, says they need to expand it. The Rebbe is the one in charge. He is Chabad.” On Tuesday, a group of US Jewish men gathered to pray […]
Brendan O’Neill Spiked, Jan. 10, 2024 “It’s a colourful story, for sure. If the Atlantic publishes a longform piece on the doctrinal clashes in this curious community, I’ll probably read it. But for it to trend, to make waves worldwide, is odd to say the least.” So, some religious men in New York City dug […]
Friday, December 8th 2023
David Mamet Unherd, Dec. 7, 2023 “Western Jews have traditionally voted for liberalism, … We support the United Nations, a Potemkin village of remittance men hired to denounce Israel, and we elect politicians who kowtow to murderous antisemites. We send our children to elite universities, which teach antisemitism and support anti-Jewish demonstrations, and then advise […]
Thursday, November 30th 2023
Barton Swain WSJ, Nov. 24, 2023 “Is it too simplistic to say that political leaders who don’t acknowledge any authority from above are likelier to impose their will by force? If we’re nothing more than globs of cells hurtling through a chaotic universe, why not coerce people into doing what you want them to do?” […]
Friday, September 22nd 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Baruch Sterman and Judy Taubes Sterman Jewish Review of Books, Fall 2023 “There are uncertainties that are by their very nature unknowable, and there are those that could in theory be known but are not known now. Some things are unknowable; others are merely unknown. In the first case, there is greater room for leniency […]
Herman Kieval Commentary Magazine, October 1968 “The psychoanalyst Theodor Reik contends that even Jews totally removed from any formal ties with Judaism are susceptible to Kol Nidre which, he believes, speaks to the collective Jewish unconscious of its deepest tribal memories.” All vows, renunciations, promises, obligations, oaths, taken from this Day of Atonement till […]
Ruth R. Wisse WSJ, Sept. 21, 2023 “The Peretz-like skeptic who discredits supernatural belief is won over by the act of human kindness performed anonymously and in secret—by Judaism’s humanistic, humanitarian ethic.” In the Hebrew calendar, the 10-day period beginning with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and ending with Yom Kippur, the year’s holiest […]
Thursday, September 21st 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Jacob Sivak Jerusalem Post, June 28, 2023 “The layout can be described as a spiral, or a calligraphic solar system, with “idea units circulating like moons around a major planet.”” This year marks the 100th anniversary of the introduction of the worldwide Daf Yomi (“a page a day”) study of the Talmud, as well as the […]
William Kremer BBC World Service, Nov. 8, 2013 “… with each daf yomi cycle, the Talmud gets more accessible.” Step into the last carriage of the 07:53 train from Inwood to Penn Station in New York and you may be in for a surprise. The commuters here are not looking at their phones or […]
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