Today marks the kickoff of my book tour for my biography of my mother-in-law, Rhoda Kadalie. The book is titled "Rhoda: 'Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order!'," and it is available at Amazon or here: https://rhodakadalie.com
Here is the CONFIRMED schedule of events -- please drop me a comment below if you would like to attend any of them and I will get you the details. The Gitlin Library lecture will be about the book but is not officially a launch event.
Feb. 1 - Pacific Palisades, California - Collections Antiques, 6:30 p.m.
Feb. 9 - Johannesburg, South Africa - Exclusive Books Rosebank, 6:00 p.m.
(Feb. 14 - Cape Town, South Africa - Gitlin Library Lecture, 6:30 p.m.)
Feb. 15 - Cape Town, South Africa - Exclusive Books Canal Walk, 6:00 p.m.
Feb. 20 - Costa Mesa, California - Hilton Orange County, 5:30 p.m.
Feb. 21 - Los Angeles, California - Republican Jewish Coalition, 12:00 p.m.
Feb. 23 - Millburn, New Jersey - The Book House, 6:00 p.m.
Feb. 28 - San Ramon, California - SRV Republicans, 12:00 p.m.
Mar. 2 - Monterey, California - Monterey County Republicans, 6:00 p.m.
Hope to see you at an event. Books will be available for signing/purchase.
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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 ...
