On Friday, Sept. 25 the Skirball Cultural Center held a socially distant RBG memorial display on its front steps, to honor the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
The memorial ran from noon to 8 p.m. on the same day that Ginsburg lay in state at the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. Visitors brought letters, photos and flowers and place written reflections on the steps along with other personal tributes.
Inspired by the Skirball’s 2018-2019 exhibition ‘Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” the community arts organization Classroom of Compassion created and installed a physical floral and candle memorial on Sepulveda Boulevard. The artists explained on Instagram, “We both remember [the exhibition] and leaving emboldened in our desire to continue moving the dial forward…. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, I hope u know how much u mean to the world.” The display was included in the memorial on the Skirball’s front steps.
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Happy New Year! Rosh Hashannah and Yom Kippur 5781!
During the month leading up to Rosh Hashannah and Yom Kippur, I think about what has happened in the year that is ending. As I have this chance to reflect on what went well and what I want in the new year, I set goals. During the pandemic, I have had to pivot and write more about books as I have not been traveling.
What will you focus on? Cantor Emma from Stephen Wise Temple asked us:
What are the things we want to let go of from this past year? Where were we successful, our best selves? Where did we fall short? Who do we want to reconnect with or make amends to? What have we learned from the unique challenges during this pandemic? What are our hopes, dreams and goals for 5781 (2020-2021)?
At this time of year we say: “G’mar Hatima Tova” which means may you be inscribed into the Book of Life with a good seal. It is not too late to change the decree, listen to the shofar and be called to attention, to worship, to community, to something new! What will you commit to?
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(JTA) — Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden compared Donald Trump’s rhetoric to that of Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propagandist whose work was crucial to fueling the rise of Hitler and the Holocaust.
Biden made the comments Saturday during an interview on MSNBC, when host Stephanie Ruhle asked how he would confront repeated false claims by Trump that Biden is a socialist or pushing a socialist agenda.
Biden responded by saying he was not sure it would be possible to sway a Trump voter who has come to believe that message from the president.
“He’s sort of like Goebbels. You say the lie long enough, keep repeating it, repeating it, repeating it, it becomes common knowledge,” Biden said.
Saturday was not the first time that Biden compared Trump to Goebbels. He also did so in October, when he called for Trump’s impeachment for the first time. (On Saturday, he also compared Trump to Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, saying about Trump, “He’s more Castro than Churchill.”)
But his new comment comes amid escalating rhetoric involving Nazi comparisons during the presidential race. Trump’s critics are increasingly employing Nazi comparisons against him, especially amid bipartisan backlash against his repeated claims that the election will be illegitimate if he loses, and his refusal to ensure a peaceful transfer of power.
At the same time, a fringe of Trump supporters, including some Republican officials, have accused Democratic politicians of Nazi-like behavior in confronting the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of them have later apologized.
For decades, the Anti-Defamation League and other Jewish groups have criticized politicians and other public figures, including Trump, for invoking Nazi comparisons, arguing that they cheapen the memory of the Holocaust and coarsen public discourse.
The Anti-Defamation League did not immediately provide a comment about Biden’s remarks Sunday.
The Republican Jewish Coalition called on Biden to retract and apologize for his remarks.
“The rule in debate is that if your only argument is to call your opponent a Nazi, you have no argument at all,” RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks said in a statement. “Instead of engaging in a debate on policy, Joe Biden has descended to name-calling and Holocaust references. … There is no place in political discourse for Holocaust imagery or comparing candidates to Nazis.”
Trump himself has made Nazi comparisons multiple times, including this year in his July 4 speech when he suggested that his efforts to quash “the radical left, the Marxists, the anarchists, the agitators, the looters, and people who, in many instances, have absolutely no clue what they are doing” were akin to the United States’ defeat of the Nazis. He has also praised right-wing figures, including Rush Limbaugh and Alex Jones, with long records of painting people on the left as Nazis. And his campaign has accepted donations from a neo-Nazi leader.
