It's a beautiful day in California. I've got a wonderful family; I've got a great job; I've got a nice home; most of all, I've got my good health.
That said...
1. War in Israel. How is it that Israeli civilians are still being made to run for shelter? How is it that we have a government in the U.S. that is sending money to the Palestinians despite ongoing terror?
2. Media bias. How is it that we have a media fixated on some minor crimes allegedly committed by a freshman congressman and completely ignoring the Biden family corruption revealed today?
3. The cost of everything. We are facing religious school tuition in the fall, plus a whole bunch of other bills, and I was just told by my insurance company that my car is a total loss after being rear-ended.
4. The endless stupidity of political debate. We have to deal with people who allow themselves to be lied to about everything -- the way Gavin Newsom lies about "book bans" etc. It never matures.
5. The fact that no one is punished for what they did to Trump. I get it, you don't like Trump. But we had the Russia collusion hoax, and no one was punished, and now... the CIA interfering in elections? Really? https://ace.mu.nu/archives/404363.php
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 ...
