After some comments came back from the publisher, which I believe I wrote about before, I worked on a new and updated draft of my biography of my mother-in-law over the past several weeks. I have until the end of the month.
It's been a labor of love, emotional and exhausting. I've now gone over almost all of the documents, and I've found a few additional sources in six separate boxed, plus a hard drive I need to go through. Looking back -- it's a lot of material.
More on politics later -- I've been following and writing about the Senate races at Breitbart. I've never felt the kind of enthusiasm for a Republican takeover as I am feeling out there right now. It has to do with Biden's lack of leadership.
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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 ...