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Book Review: God Was Not In The Fire – The Search For A Spiritual Judaism by Daniel Gordis
I began studying Biblical Hebrew seriously when the COVID-19 Pandemic forced a hiatus from the daily requirements of work and other mandatory activities. This enabled me to devote more time to other pursuits, one of which was the desire to gain a level of proficiency in biblical Hebrew, the primary language in which the Old…
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Israel-Hamas War: Egyptian Author/Investigative Journalist Calls for Annihilation of Hamas, mid-December 2023
The following is an article written on December 18, 2023, by Inna Levitskaya, a journalist and editor at Channel 9 Israel, a Russian-language TV channel located in Israel. Levitskaya’s article was the product of portions of an interview conducted with Dalia Ziada by the Telegram channel Humans for Israel and excerpts from Ziada’s Wikipedia page.…
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Death of Turkish Parliamentarian Spurs Torrent of Responses to Recent X Post of Israeli Foreign Ministry Official, mid-December 2023
The Turkish e-newspaper Ekonomim [My Economy], on December 14, reported that the X (formerly Twitter) post of an Israeli Foreign Ministry official had been retweeted in the wake of the sudden death of Turkish member of Parliament, Hasan Bitmez. “Following the news of the death of Saadet [Felicity] Party Member of Parliament (MP), who represented…
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Ukrainian, Russian Newspapers Differ in Accounts of November Ramstein Contact Group Session on Aid to Ukraine; Bulgarian Newspaper Reports Türkiye’s Disregard for Russia Sanctions, November 2023
In her November 22, 2023, article for the weekly Ukrainian Russian-language socio-political journal and daily news internet resource, Fokus, Darya Denisova stressed U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s provocative challenge to the West to continue its “unwavering” financial aid to Ukraine to ensure that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s revanchist schemes never come to fruition. At…
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Israel-Hamas Conflict: Germany Warned to Expect Consequences of Supporting Israel; Undercurrent of Radical Islam Simmers, early December 2023
Senior reporter for the German-language newspaper, Welt am Sonntag (The World on Sunday), Per Hinrichs, on December 1, 2023, wrote an opinion piece, “Risk of Attack: Islamism has finally come to our everyday lives.” Hinrich’s article was spurred by news that local police had foiled an attack planned by two ‘Islamists’ targeting a Christmas market;…
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Israel Fears Hezbollah More Than Hamas And This Is The Reason – The Ominous Forecast Of An Israeli Commander, early November 2023
This post is a straight translation from the Greek language internet news site, Newsbeast. The article was written by Panagiotis Flokis and carries a date of 10 November 2023. Israel is proclaiming that it “will cause Hamas to disappear from the face of the earth” after the bloody attack of October 7, however, its greatest…
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Organization of Turkic States Looks To Strengthen Mutual Security; Azerbaijan Discusses Military Cooperation with Pakistan, early/mid-November 2023
The internet site of the Azerbaijan newspaper, Yeni (New) Azərbaycan, in its November 3, 2023, Azerbaijani language edition, reported that at the 10th Organization of Turkic States (TDT) summit of heads-of-state recently held in Astana, Kazakhstan, the President of Kazakhstan, Kasım-Jomart Tokayev, called for member states [Translator note: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Türkiye, and Uzbekistan] to…
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Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Accuses U.S. of Withholding Intelligence Yet Supplying Arms to Israel Prior to Hamas Attack, mid-October 2023
The Turkish newspaper, Cumhuriyet, reported on its Turkish language internet site on October 14, 2023, the answers of Russian MFA spokesperson, Mariya Zakharova, to the questions of Turkish journalist, Esra Karahindiba. The Q&A, which centered around the unfolding Israel-Hamas conflict, its impact on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and the effect of attempts to mediate peace negotiations…
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Russian Foreign Ministry Blames U.S. for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Russia’s Special Military Operation against Ukraine, mid-October 2023
During Russian news agency TASS’s joint workshop with the International Journalists Council in Moscow, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Maria Zakharova, met with Turkish journalists, during which she answered the questions of Turkish journalist Esra Karahindiba. Karahindiba’s interview with Zakharova was reported in the online version of the Turkish newspaper, Cumhuriyet, on October 14, 2023. The…
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אבן העזר ואבן’ם לזכרון The Stone of Help and Stones of Remembrance: Bringing to Mind Yahwah’s Help and Goodness
Putting the Hebrew words first in the title is meant to illustrate how these two well-known phrases appear in the Hebrew text of the Old Testament. As many of you who read this post will know, Hebrew writing goes from right to left, which means that אבן העזר is the Hebrew phrase translated as ‘stone…