Informed Comment daily updates (10/31/2023)

 

Is Iran satisfied with the Derailing of the Abraham Accords by the Gaza Conflict or does it Want More? “For the last few months Jerusalem has become the center of nationality struggles. Until then we were living peacefully. The Orientals were grateful to their European coreligionists for the help they brought to their moral and material misery. Zionism was created supposedly to bring about closer relations within Judaism; all it has succeeded in doing […]

How Jewish Nonviolence can help guide the Path forward on Israel-Palestine Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb  ( Waging Nonviolence ) – In an article entitled “What does Jewish law say about the war between Israel and Hamas,” Jay Michaelson explores biblical, talmudic and medieval sources to answer that question, noting the long arc of rabbinic tradition bends toward nonviolence. In Jewish life, the normative perception of Torah is […]

In the Israel-Hamas Conflict, Children are the Ultimate Pawns — and Ultimate Victims By Omer Bartov, Brown University | – (The Conversation) – In 1903, a local mob killed 49 Jews, including several children, and raped and wounded 600 others, in the city of Kishinev, then part of the Russian Empire. These three days of violence later became known as the Kishinev pogrom. A few days later, the […]

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