October 29, 2021 ​”Bury your dead”   Chayei Sarah  ​23:15​

Gerrymandering, preposterous election audits, engineered recall campaigns, partisan election laws and the determination to blink at the January 6 terrorism are all calculated attacks on democracy by despots bedazzled by power.

October 22, 2021 “They struck them blindness”    Vayeira 19:11 

Ohio and other Red-State legislatures, using “Critical Race Theory” as pretext, are enacting laws to prevent teaching about racism and slavery and to erase crucial segments of American social history from school curricula. This, of course, has an fitting precedent: Holocaust denial.

October 15, 2021 “Take yourself to the land I show you”      Lech Lecha 12:1 

Six years after we abandoned the SS St. Louis refugees to Nazi clutches, Truman welcomed 140,000 survivors. Congress, since 1970, has admitted 200,000 Soviet Jews. Both were compassionate exceptions to immigration restrictions passed initially to exclude Jews. Our community must insist on enacting a humane, practical, and comprehensive immigration system.

October 8, 2021 ” Remember the everlasting covenant”     Noah 9:16

Our sages reconstrued the Torah to avert capital punishment, supplant the priestly service, and be accessible to a diverse Jewish diaspora. Supreme Court justices who slavishly adhere to the Constitution as first drafted favoring the proprietor elite, contentious federalism and racial hierarchy sadly lack the wisdom that ennobled Jewish law.