Shabbat shalom! A tip of the kippah this week to a group of leaders, Scott Galloway, Sheryl Sandberg, Sam Harris and Dan Señor, who will use their platforms to keep the hostages and their eventual freedom front and center. According to the Hostages Family Forum, “As the holiday season approaches, we’re confronted by the heartbreakingContinue reading “The Jew News Review – December 21, 2024 – “Bibi, do the deal, then resign! And a new orange turd resistance strategy?””
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The Jew News Review – December 6, 2024 – “Slouching toward decadence”
Shabbat shalom. The word decadence comes from the Medieval Latin word dēcadentia, which means “to fall down”. Synonyms of decadence include decline, degeneration, and deterioration. All words that come to my mind this week given the nature of our social discourse surrounding the cold blooded assassination of Brian Thompson, the fifty-year-old CEO of UnitedHealthcare, whoContinue reading “The Jew News Review – December 6, 2024 – “Slouching toward decadence””
The Jew News Review – November 23, 2024 – “Truth and Trust”
Shabbat shalom! And I hope you all have a great, safe, and yummy Thanksgiving! A tip of the kippah this week to Ilana Dayan, who delivered a landmark speech last week at the Weizmann Institute in Israel to huge acclaim. Dayan is an Israeli investigative journalist, anchorwoman, and attorney. She is best known as host of theContinue reading “The Jew News Review – November 23, 2024 – “Truth and Trust””
The Jew News Review – November 16, 2024 – “A reckless pick by a feckless prick”
Shabbat shalom! Well, the navel examinations and finger pointing continues as to why so many of our fellow Americans could vote for a traitorous rapist and convicted felon for President of these somewhat united states. Substack and all forms of media are overflowing with essays explaining the end of the world as we know it.Continue reading “The Jew News Review – November 16, 2024 – “A reckless pick by a feckless prick””
The Jew News Review – October 18, 2024 – Special Edition – “A great day for the world”
Shabbat Shalom! Yesterday we learned that the great Satan, Yahya Sinwar, was killed by a few Israeli grunts on a routine operation in Rafah. After an IDF infantry drone picked up movement in a building, near to where the six hostages were murdered, gunfire was exchanged and a tank shell lit up the building killingContinue reading “The Jew News Review – October 18, 2024 – Special Edition – “A great day for the world””
The Jew News Review – October 26, 2024 – “Wapo dies in its own darkness”
Shabbat shalom! And a tip of the kippah this week to Sir Paul McCartney, spotted attending Yom Kippur services in Chile, alongside his Jewish wife, Nancy Chevelle. McCartney was in South America as part of his big “Got Back” world tour, performed a concert in Santiago on a Friday night, and then went to ShulContinue reading “The Jew News Review – October 26, 2024 – “Wapo dies in its own darkness””
The Jew News Review – November 8, 2024 – Mourning in America
Shabbat shalom. This morning, I am mourning. And the gathering gloom, is getting even gloomier. I woke up to the news of a pogrom in Amsterdam. This is a developing news story, but the headlines from CNN are as follows: Israeli soccer fans were beaten and injured in violent clashes in Amsterdam overnight, which theContinue reading “The Jew News Review – November 8, 2024 – Mourning in America”
The Jew News Review – October 12, 2024 – “One Day”
Shabbat shalom! And G’mar tov (Good seal)! The latter greeting is based on the belief that a person’s fate for the coming year is written on Rosh Hashanah and sealed on Yom Kippur. “G’mar tov” expresses the wish that the person be inscribed and sealed in the Book of Life for a good year. ItContinue reading “The Jew News Review – October 12, 2024 – “One Day””
The Jew News Review – Special Edition – “The Message and the media”
Shalom. It was in my George Orwell class in college many years ago that my favorite professor, Howard Ziff, challenged the class with this quote about journalism, whose source is not known to me: “The role of the journalist is to broadcast the truth, and at the same time, destroy the ability to perceive.” ThatContinue reading “The Jew News Review – Special Edition – “The Message and the media””
The Jew News Review – October 7, 2024 – “”I will not die, but I will live….”
On a more positive note, here is and excerpt from Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’s speech he gave in 2013 to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Policy Conference, in which he reminded the audience that “Israel is the greatest collective affirmation of life in the whole of Jewish history.” “How probable is it that the universeContinue reading “The Jew News Review – October 7, 2024 – “”I will not die, but I will live….””
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