Daily Archives: November 30, 2023
Historic statesman, who advised presidents, Henry Kissinger dead at 100
Alan Dershowitz first met Henry Kissinger in the mid-1960s. “We were both professors at Harvard, and his son and my son were elementary school classmates,” Dershowitz, an attorney, commentator and Harvard Law School professor...
Menorah car parades set to light up cities worldwide
Chanukah celebrates light, religious freedom and—a theme less often emphasized—the potential of young people. This year, Jews around the world will take that celebration to the streets more powerfully than ever.
Last December, as Kyiv...
Online program brings Jewish learning to deaf, hard of hearing
Staci Blumenfeld is deeply curious about Judaism. She finally got to dig in over the past six weeks.
“I have long had the desire to understand who I am, where my ancestors come from, the...
A Future for Israel?
“Palestinians Must Have Hope for a Brighter Future,” urges a New York Times headline. It tops a Thanksgiving Day opinion piece authored by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
Hope for what? To kill more Jews? What...
Israel Must Confront the Jihadist Desire for Immortality
“An immortal person is a contradiction in terms.”
Emmanuel Levinas, God, Death and Time (2000)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israel’s security policy decision-makers must take into account the desire of Israel’s terrorist adversaries to achieve immortality through violence. Israel must be...
‘Oct. 7 was just a rehearsal,’ warns Sinwar
Hamas's Oct. 7 slaughter was "just a rehearsal," the Islamist group's leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar threatened on Thursday, in his first public statement since the terrorist organization massacred more than a thousand people...
Israel ‘cannot claim self-defense,’ Abbas says
Israel is carrying out a "genocide" and "cannot claim the right to self-defense," Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas claimed in a statement issued on Wednesday, as a Biden administration official credited Ramallah for keeping...
The unexpected details of war
The agonizing dilemmas faced by Israel’s leaders in dealing with Hamas’s evil manipulation of infants and the elderly are by now well known. Military and strategic analyses of the war against Hamas are widespread,...
Israel: 2,005 soldiers injured since Oct. 7
According to Israel’s Defense Ministry, 2,005 soldiers have been injured since Oct. 7, the first such figures have been released since the war began.
The announcement coincided with the annual National Day of Appreciation for...
Netanyahu meets with Blinken in Jerusalem
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hosted U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at his office in Jerusalem on Thursday afternoon.
It is the fourth time the top U.S. diplomat has visited the Jewish state since the war...