This week's portion continues the description of the sacrifices in the Tabernacle. Because it is the week after the Purim holiday, we also add an additional reading -- not from Leviticus, but from Numbers, describing the ritual of the red heifer.
There is lots of excitement around the concept of the red heifer, which is said by some to be one of the requirements for the messianic age. Red cows are rare and somehow, according to what I've heard, two have emerged in recent years.
That has some people excited about the possibilities for redemption in the near future. I don't know if I'd put all that much emphasis on a cow, but I would agree that living one's life in constant expectation of success is not a bad way to be.
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This week, we'll cover a wide variety of topics -- from the economy, to what's next on Capitol Hill after the "Big, Beautiful Bill," to the Middle East, and to the continuation of "lawfare." Is Tulsi Gabbard out for revenge against a "treasonous" former Obama administration? (That's a big word.)
Special guests:
Bradley Jaye -- Breitbart News congressional correspondent
Dylan Gwinn -- Breitbart News sports editor, on Trump and the Redskins
Alex Swoyer -- journalist and former Breitbart News colleague, on law fare.
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This week's portion is named for Pinchas, who was a priest who saved the Children of Israel by killing a prince and a Midianite woman while they were in the throes of passion (as part of a Midianite plot to undermine Israel).
Pinchas is seen as a hero, but this story has always bothered me, for obvious reasons. I'm going to go out on a limb here and opine that there are limits to religious zealotry. We Jews, too, need to practice the tolerance we expect.
I'm upset about recent incidents in which Jewish extremists -- who represent a really tiny minority of Israelis, but who have been unrestrained lately -- have confronted Palestinians, including Christians, and caused unnecessary harm.
I'm also very concerned about the fact that the religious community in Israel has been able to thwart the great public desire to integrate that community through military service. There is probably no greater moral threat to Israel.
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This is my first broadcast from the new office and studio in Washington, DC, where I'll be for a couple of years my neighborhood back in L.A. cleans up -- and as we follow the Trump administration from a little closer up than usual.
Topics:
- The anniversary of the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump
- The escalating tariff battle with various different trading partners
- The future of the Middle East peace talks, and ongoing antisemitism
- The Jeffrey Epstein files and whether they mean anything at all
- The continued crisis of the Texas floods, and stories of heroism and survival
And more!
Special guests:
- James Rosen - Newsmax chief Washington correspondent
- Bob Price - Breitbart News Texas reporter, on the ongoing floods
- Robert Cahill - Trafalgar Polling, on a new alliance of reliable pollsters
- Rabbi Yaakov Menken - Coalition for Jewish Values - on Israel & antisemitism
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