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.