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Netanyahu's Speech at the UN
Here is the speech that Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu gave to the UN General Assembly on September 24th 2009 in response to both a speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and a UN report on human rights violations in Gaza.
What do you think of what he had to say? Was he right to have made this speech? Should a condemnation of Ahmadinejad's views and a defence of Israel's actions be linked in the same speech, or are the two unrelated? Take a read or watch the speech and then give your thoughts below!
Jonathan Freedland's articles
As mentioned in our recent newsletter, this is the space to comment on the two Jonathan Freedland articles that we referenced. The first is about his ambivalence toward the JFS decision and can be found here. The second piece is about the substance of international criticism levelled at settlement expansion and can be found here.
Add a commentRabbi Bayfield's New Year address
It bothers me a lot that we still teach childish notions of faith whilst missing the genuine article.
I never cease to be appalled by how much I read and forget. But some things at least do stay with me. An example comes from a book of short stories called 'In the Reign of Peace' by the American author Hugh Nissenson published forty years ago. When I took it down from the shelf recently, I was reminded that the word shalom is wrongly spelled in Hebrew on the dustcover!
What I had remembered, however, was one of the short stories called 'Charity'. It’s about an impoverished Jewish tailor on the lower East Side of Manhattan who always has a guest to Friday night dinner, someone "even poorer than us" and "with no place to go".
Add a commentParashat HaShavua – Shabbat Zachor
Written by Raphael Sylvester
This Shabbat is Shabbat Zachor – the Sabbath of remembrance. It is so-called because it is the Shabbat before the festival of Purim and Parshat Zachor is read – a short section from Deuteronomy in which we are instructed to …
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