Welcome back from Thanksgiving break... and Happy Chanukah! (Or "Hanukkah," if you prefer.) We have a lot to talk about, including the new wave of coronavirus shutdowns (for Nu, er, Xi, er, Omicron); the spate of holiday looting sprees in California; the ongoing Inquisition at the January 6 committee; the year's end in sports (including a possible boycott of the Olympics in China); the meaning of Chanukah; and the prospects of a Democratic Congress passing a new budget and raising the debt ceiling, while a Democratic Senate sits on the "Build Back Better" bill... so much before 2022!
Special guests:
Bernard Kerik - former NYPD commissioner, on California looting and Jan. 6
Dylan Gwinn - Breitbart News sports editor, on the latest, and the Olympics
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach - on the meaning of Chanukah in today's world
Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC) - on Congress, budgets, and mandates
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This week's show will be slightly different from the norm: we'll focus on clips and topics, rather than guests -- and that, hopefully, will mean more input from the callers (unless you are all watching football on opening weekend).
Topics:
- The state of the economy
- The fight against crime
- The midterm election fight
- The struggle for peace between Russia and Ukraine
- The airstrike on the Venezuelan drug cartel
- The attempt to sink Kennedy
- The war in Gaza
- The case against Harvard
- The Trump presidency
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This week's Torah portion includes several laws about conduct in civic and personal life, the common theme of which is boundaries -- setting bounds to what one may do at home, at work, and even in the battlefield.
One noteworthy passage concerns Amalek, the evil nation that attacked the Children of Israel as they made their Exodus from slavery to freedom. Deuteronomy 25:17-19 commands Jews to obliterate Amalek's memory.
The South African government accused Israel of genocide on the basis of a story about Amalek in the Book of Samuel, in which King Saul was commanded to wipe out the entire evil Amalekite nation.
Because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quoted this week's portion -- "Remember what Amalek did to you" (25:17), the South African government claimed he was commanding soldiers to commit genocide.
It was an absurd and malevolent misreading of the Bible and of Jewish tradition. The commandment, as observed by Jews today, is to remember the evil of Amalek and fight ...
