I will have a new book coming out on August 20: "The Agenda: What Trump Should Do in His First 100 Days."
The book is the product of a passionate and intense effort that began with Trump's unjust conviction in Manhattan on May 31. I finished it in 10 days.
People who have read it, and blurbed it, tell me they were amazed by how it made them feel -- that it gave them hope and a sense of direction for the future.
I think it succeeds simply because it moves beyond the politics of the moment.
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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 ...