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Friday, December 1st 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
SHABBAT READING Collective Responsibility: VAYISHLACH • 5771, 5784, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, The Rabbi Sacks Legacy — By any standards it was a shocking episode. Jacob had settled on the outskirts of the town of Shechem, ruled by Hamor. Dina, Jacob’s daughter, goes out to see the town. Shechem, Hamor’s son, sees her, abducts and rapes her, and then falls in […]
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Nial Ferguson WSJ, Nov. 29, 2023 “Kissinger’s real contribution was as a strategist and negotiator. Asked in 1976 to assess his own statesmanship, he replied: “I have tried—with what success historians will have to judge—to have an overriding concept.” He combined grand strategy with indefatigable “shuttle diplomacy” and an ability to read his foreign counterparts.” […]
Robert D. Kaplan Unherd, Nov. 30, 2023 “Kissinger continues to be hated because of Vietnam. But as strange as it may seem, Kissinger and Nixon, in withdrawing from Vietnam in the bloody manner that they did, demonstrated real character: they believed that they were serving the national interest and proving their toughness to China and the Soviet […]
Editorial The New York Sun, Nov. 30, 2023 “Kissinger was stung by the disclosure of that tape. The point he wanted to make was that only hours, as we remember it, before that conversation, Nixon and Kissinger had decided to rush arms and matériel to Israel and save the Jewish state (the moment is captured […]
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