June 25, 2021 “To curse my enemies did I summon you”      Balak 24:10 

Republican schemers and their Fox stooges addict their base to invented wedge issues: Immigrants, critical race theory, taking our guns, cancel culture, killing unborn children, rampant crime, etc. Thus, through deception does the right prosper to serve its donors and corporate patrons.

June 18, 2021 “We shall not veer right or left.          Chukas” 20:17

Is it fair to hold Israel to a higher standard than Hamas? Than Fatah? A higher standard than Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Iran or Russia? For that matter, than the U.S.? Whether as “Start-up Nation” or “People of the Book”, our history and our nationhood, socially, politically, and strategically, are a testament to a higher standard. 

June 11, 2021 “The plague had begun among the people”    Korach 17:12

For pro-Israel advocates, when Israelis target Arab neighborhoods with evictions and house confiscations and respond to Hamas rockets so disproportionally that hundreds are left homeless, maimed and killed, how are we to defend what’s become of Zionism to compassionate people whom these things disgust? 

June 4, 2021 “They brought forth an evil report on the land”   Shelach 13:32

As Jews struggled to assimilate in America, their aspirations aligned with those of African-Americans. Many now fully-assimilated Jews, ever yet mindful of antisemitism, have turned cynical to public education, to programs for alleviating poverty, and to the adversity faced by less sanguine minorities. Way too much assimilation. 

May 28, 2021 “The rabble that was among them…”   Behaaloscha 11:4

An educated community that permits itself to be duped into preferring potential COVID infection to immunization intersects neatly with the Stop-the-Steal lunatics and the anti-Semitic Alt-Right. They’re not Woke. They’re asleep.