It’s Purim time… time to get the sweet stuff baking.
This is for an apricot hamantaschen filling…
The rain stopped in L.A. this morning after several days. A few hours later, I decided to check out a local trail that is usually dry. I was amazed…
Javier Milei, the president of Argentina, came back to the Western Wall, or Kotel, late Thursday night — not as part of an arranged event, but just to pray.
Prayers led to tears, which led to embraces, which led to singing, which led to dancing. It was a great celebration of life and a common link to God.
Milei is reminding Israel that she still has friends. He is also reminding freedom-lovers that freedom depends on faith. He is affirming what I value most.
This has been a trip of many tears. Yet on this trip, at least, most of the tears have been tears of joy. Good luck to Milei, and thank you to Argentina.
I'm fresh from the front lines of protest -- the "encampment" at UCLA -- and I'll have a lot to say about what's going on on campuses around the nation, as a generation of radical activists is, generally, being allowed to destroy education.
Or was education destroyed already? Isn't that how we got to this point?
I'll also introduce an excerpt from my audiobook, "The Trumpian Virtues." It describes the unique characteristics that made Trump's first term successful. I will probably play a chapter every week for the next few months, if you like it.
Special guests:
- Carolyn Siegel - founder of "If You Heard What I Heard" Holocaust memoir
- Rahul Sur - pro-Israel Hindu activist, on the imposition of sharia law
Tune in: SiriusXM Patriot 125, 7-10 p.m. ET, 4-7 p.m. PT
Call in: 866-957-2874
This week's portion, in addition to the reading for Passover, discusses the aftermath of the death of Aaron's sons. God, through Moses, lays out the process for atonement on Yom Kippur, followed by a list of sexual prohibitions.
It is telling that Aaron's profound personal grief at losing two of his four sons in the midst of the Tabernacle service is turned into a motivation for repentance among the nation as a whole, as well as for basic rules of sexual morality.
In that sense, Aaron's profound loss represents a national gain -- and the dread that surrounds the fate of his sons motivates what is an appropriate sense of fear and awe around the law, atonement, and the presence of sin in our lives.
