The Biden presidency is at a standstill, with the defeat of his so-called "voting rights" legislation, and the failed effort to end the Senate filibuster. With U.S. diplomats evacuating the Ukraine, stocks falling on fears of inflation, the COVID pandemic still raging (with racial rules for treatment in some places), and crime rampant nationwide, is there any way for Biden to turn it around?
Maybe, maybe not. But Democrats are focused on the January 6 committee, and the Supreme Court's recent decision that the National Archives will have to hand over more Trump-era materials to the committee is certainly going to fuel that effort. Will that help Democrats in 2022? Or is it just a distraction?
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Alan Dershowitz -- on the January 6 committee, and the crisis of violent crime
William Jacobson -- of Legal Insurrection, suing New York over COVID racism
Ambassador David Friedman -- on Biden's stalled foreign policy and Ukraine
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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 ...
