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The religious Zionists who advocate 'voluntary transfer' are too confident that the world - and God - will back them

PM’s talk of ‘absolute victory’ is meaningless without him taking the political steps and providing the army with the ‘endgame’ vision to attain it * Safe in the south? * Press leaks

Hamas’s demands appear to present a near-impossible dilemma, especially for a riven government. But the IDF believes there is a path forward * Water and Iron * Divisive Netanyahu

A smart piece at The Atlantic has me thinking about our too-short attention spans and motivated reasoning.

Jewish advisers help a hit television show about the life of Jesus grapple with Judaism

The immigration reform deal they negotiated has so much of what Republicans claim to want that the only way they can criticize it is by making things up.

Yosef Blau, Senior Mashgiah Ruhani at Yeshiva University, wonders about the direction of Religious Zionism after October 7 and considers the role of Modern Orthodoxy outside of Israel.

GOP leaders, who proposed stand-alone Israel funding, said the Senate bill is “dead on arrival,” for insufficiently addressing the immigration crisis on the U.S. southern border.

The amateur strategists high and low who seek to tell Israel when, where and how to fight a mortal enemy are pushing peace further away.

An international elite beholden to nihilistic empathy cannot meet the challenge of the moment.

Leveraging the fate of the hostages to compel an Israeli surrender to Hamas is a sick, manipulative strategy that is doomed to political failure

The Holocaust, it might have been presumed, put an end to the Jews’ role as the means through which Western societies defined themselves, the mirror they held up to decide “Who are we?” But no, well into this century...

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Tech Tribe Dispatch #235

Some of them feel betrayed that she didn’t turn out to be a secret Nazi

January 30, 2024

From conspiracy theories to creepy comments about the pop star's womb, it's a good time to dial down the weirdness a bit.