December 31, 2021 “A swarm of wild beasts came” Va’eira 8:20
The January 6 terrorists were puppets, cultivated by Trump, the Republican elite through Fox News, its TV proxy, and its relentless social media machine. The 2022 Congressional election will bear tens of thousands of these armed, zealous, and hyped-up dupes. American Brown Shirts? Germany 1933? Pray for democracy.
December 23, 2021 “Get back to work” Shemot 5:4
Child-care frees parents to work. Pre-K education builds future work force. Alternate power fuels an industry now dominated by China and Germany. Home Care keeps seniors out of nursing homes. Funding IRS and making billionaires pay taxes is a no-brainer. To Joe Manchin and Republicans: Rejecting Build Back Better costs more than passing it!
December 17, 2021 “Proverbs 28:15 – Like a roaring lion is a ruler over poor people”
The White rulers of Texas now force a poor, raped Black woman to bear the rapist’s child and without health insurance, childcare nor pre-school, just like the children their slave-master forbears harvested from the black women they raped and held prisoner. “Pro-life” is really just pro-birth. It ignores and scorns supporting all mothers and all children in our society.
December 10, 2021 “Let not your anger flare” Vayegash 44:18
Most non-vaxxers are the dupes of anti-vaxxers, many of whose social media posts and websites compare mask and vaccination mandates with Nuremburg laws, a sad marginalization of the Holocaust. Worse are descriptions of COVID as a Jewish conspiracy. The anti-vaxx movement brims with antisemitism
December 3, 2021 “You have done evil” Mikeitz 44:5
Voting restrictions, laws dictating women’s health choices, ceaseless promotion of guns, anti-demonstration mandates, meddling in school curricula and even business economic threats requiring anti-BDS pledges all recall the “benign” initial steps of authoritarianism. History teaches this isn’t good for Jews.
November 26, 2021 “Would you reign over us?” Vayeshev 37:8
General Flynn’s demand for “one nation, one religion” is a peek under the lid of the Right’s deeply held, but rarely confessed anti-Semitism. Their pro-Israel gestures are designed to leverage Jewish influence and money, but their ascendance is as bad for Jews as for every other minority.