Happy Mother's Day -- and I'll talk about mine, as well as about two that I lost in the past year: my grandmother Esther, at 101; and my mother-in law Rhoda, at 68, just three weeks ago. We'll offer tribute to all of the moms out there.
Motherhood is sorely undervalued in our society, and I've written extensively about that... we need to see motherhood not only as something that is valued, but also as something that is beautiful, and sexy ... more to say about that.
How timely, then, that the Supreme Court leak of a reversal for Roe v. Wade came this week... and we'll lead the show with that, talking about the upcoming vote that Democrats want to hold in the Senate to "codify" the 1973 case.
We'll also talk about the economy, and the "disinformation" board, and all the rest of it. Looking forward to another great show, and to your calls as well!
Guests:
Diana Furchgott-RothI - economics professor at George Washington U.
David Voorman - American for Prosperity, on the "disinformation" board
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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 ...
