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Friday, July 14th 2023 / Friday, November 3rd 2023
SHABBAT READING Revising the Laws of Murder to Accommodate Blood Vengeance: Prof. Itamar Kislev, The Torah.com, July 28, 2022 1. The command to build cities of refuge (vv. 9–15); 2. A description of how to distinguish between murder and manslaughter (vv. 16–23); 3. The operation of the city of refuge for the manslayer […]
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Dovid Margolin Mosaic Magazine, Jan. 7, 2020 “In Ukraine, instead of declaring war, Moscow claimed from the start that “separatists” were bravely trying to break away from the Kiev regime and that it had a moral obligation to protect them.” In early 2014, political disruption in Ukraine devolved into unrest, a Russian invasion of […]
Vladislav Davidzon Tablet, July 11, 2023 “So it needs to be stated outright in an unambiguous and axiomatic fashion: There exists no serious neo-Nazi threat in Ukraine. None at all.” It was deeply exasperating and disappointing to read the latest screed published in The Forward regarding neo-Nazi influence within the now-infamous Ukrainian Azov battalion. The article, […]
Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, June 7, 2023 “The reason why Ukrainians wear these symbols is not exactly a mystery. While Ukrainians have the right to self-determination and independence, their nationalist movement has been linked to antisemitism since its beginnings.” How important is the struggle against antisemitism to the liberal corporate media? How much of […]
Thomas Gibbons-Neff NY Times, June 5, 2023 “Ukraine’s ambivalence about these symbols, and sometimes even its acceptance of them, risks giving new, mainstream life to icons that the West has spent more than a half-century trying to eliminate.” Since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine last year, the Ukrainian government and NATO allies have posted, […]
Thursday, January 19th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
How Russia’s New Commander in Ukraine Could Change the War: Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, Jan. 17, 2023 — Last week, Russia announced that it was replacing General Sergei Surovikin—who had been put in charge of the war in Ukraine only three months earlier—with another general, Valery Gerasimov. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 15, 2023, Kateryna Stepanenko, […]
Jed Babbin American Spectator, Jan. 16, 2023 “All this stuff about COVID this, parts, supply chain this, I just don’t really care. I need [Standard Missile]-6s delivered on time. I need more [torpedoes] delivered on time.” The Russian war to conquer Ukraine is nearly 11 months old. The U.S. media, which demands instant gratification, […]
Holman W. Jenkins Jr. WSJ, Jan. 6, 2023 “Ending the war would be a blessing to the Russian people and Mr. Putin’s budget, but it would also crystallize Russia’s status as a ramshackle power.” World War II revisionist historian Phillips O’Brien has been fighting the good fight lately on Twitter, upholding the thesis of his 2015 […]
Larry Johnson Sonar 21, Jan. 11, 2023 “Russia, like a World Champion Poker Player, is hiding its cards and only showing Ukraine what it wants them to see. Is Russia going to go all in or will it continue grinding?” The collapse of Ukrainian resistance in Soledar was confirmed even by some of the […]
Ivo H. Daalder and James Goldgeier Foreign Affairs, Jan. 9, 2023 “… there is a pressing need to consider the longer term, and to develop policies toward both Russia and Ukraine based on the emerging reality that this war is likely to continue for quite some time.” Whenever the United States faces a foreign […]
Thursday, October 13th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Peter Rough NY Post, Sept. 29, 2022 “Instead of condemning Ukraine to years of warfare and counting on European solidarity in perpetuity, the US should set as its goal Ukrainian victory.” On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to deliver a widely anticipated speech celebrating the annexation of Ukrainian territory into the Russian Federation. […]
Chris Miller WSJ, Sept. 29, 2022 “The Russian military knows that its most advanced systems depend on smuggled or improvised components of questionable reliability.” The Russian military has blundered repeatedly during the seven months since its armies stormed into Ukraine, but if Kyiv’s successful counteroffensives had to be explained with just one word, […]
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