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Friday, October 6th 2023 / Wednesday, November 1st 2023
SHABBAT READING What is Shemini Atzeret?: Rabbi Paul Steinberg, My Jewish Learning, no date — Although Hoshanah Rabbah may technically be the “last day” of Sukkot, the Rabbis decided to treat Shemini Atzeret (and Simchat Torah) as a part of Sukkot , because its significance is unequivocally informed by Sukkot itself. _______________________________________________________ Remembering the Yom Kippur War in a […]
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Friday, October 6th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Ronen Bergman, Or Fialkov Ynet News, Sept. 15, 2023 “In case of a system failure or a problem with the plane, you cannot return to base. You have one option: to fly to an open area at a remote location. Then, the pilot must make sure the plane is abandoned or the system is destroyed […]
Moshe Phillips Israel National News, Sept. 28, 2023 “Having prevented Israel from striking first, Kissinger then exploited Israel’s suffering in the early days of the war in order to advance his strategy.” There have been numerous articles, seminars, and lectures in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Yet, somehow, they […]
Michael Doran Mosaic Magazine, Oct. 2, 2023 “How could it be that these Egyptians were crossing the canal right in our faces? How was it that they were moving forward, and we were defeated?”” History records Israel’s triumph in 1967 as the Six-Day War, but the key operations that clinched the victory took closer to six hours than […]
Michael Oren WSJ, Sept. 28, 2023 “The result was a conflict that, in terms of its scale and complexity, was almost unmatched in the post-World War II era.” Recently, while walking in a Tel Aviv park, I was approached by a well-dressed, elderly man who recognized me—I once served as Israel’s ambassador to the […]
Tuesday, September 26th 2023 / Wednesday, November 1st 2023
LESSONS LEARNED Herzog on Yom Kippur: Being Open to Change: Isaac Herzog, Jerusalem Post, Sept. 25, 2023 — The Yom Kippur War was a watershed event in Israel’s history. A moment of profound national shock and trauma, it has left deep scars that, 50 years later, continue to punctuate the landscape of our society. The […]
Tuesday, September 26th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Amir Oren The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, Dec. 2022 “The sins of the Agranat Commission became gradually evident as its bias and secrets were exposed and declassified.” As Israel heads into the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War of 1973, one issue from that momentous war is still debated in Israel. Who was to […]
Edward Kunz Origins, Sept. 25, 2023 “The Nixon administration had to justify supporting Israel in the face of a global economic downturn. The OPEC nations demanded an “evenhanded” American mediation between Israel and its neighbors to end the embargo.” On October 6, 1973, the Yom Kippur War erupted in the Middle East when Anwar Sadat’s Egypt […]
Ofer Aderet Haaretz, Sept. 21, 2023 “Because of the intelligence failure, which essentially wasn’t a system-wide lapse but an individual failure by the Military Intelligence chief, the decision-makers didn’t receive the warning they expected and the IDF didn’t prepare for war in time.” A quick glance at the output of Prof. Uri Bar-Joseph reveals that […]
Herb Keinon Jerusalem Post, Sept. 23, 2023 “This was the trauma of going from such a high after the victory of 1967, to falling so low. It was the trauma of the surprise, and feeling let down by the military, in which people placed so much faith.” Israelis love to beat their chests in self-reproach, […]
Friday, September 22nd 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Mosaic Magazine, Sept. 21, 2023 “There is no lack of “Yom Kippur Jews” for whom the day means, if anything at all, going through the motions of soul-searching perfunctorily. If the God of Israel chooses to punish them for their unrepented sins in the year that follows, will they not also have had a yom kippur […]
Tuesday, October 4th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) Guide for the Perplexed, 2022: Yoram Ettinger, The Ettinger Report, Sept. 29, 2022 — Yom Kippur is observed on the 10th day of the Jewish month of Tishrei (October 5, 2022), a Super Sabbath (Shabbat Shabbaton in Hebrew), concluding 10 days of soul-searching and spiritual self-awareness and self-enhancement, which begins on Rosh Hashanah, […]
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