John McCain is a lucky man. He’s alienated what has become an important part of the Republican Party—conservative Christians—by shoving aside the Revs. John Hagee (Hitler remarks) and Rod Parsley (general nuttiness) and staying mum on California’s Supreme Court ruling in favor of gay marriage. And yet he appears at worse in a dead heat with Barack Obama, maybe better.
How can this be? Well, Ed Stoddard writes for Reuters that McCain has a trump card guaranteeing the Religious Right’s vote:
Backing Mamdani sends the wrong message: that Jewish safety must always come second to progressive acceptance.
Rabbi Raucher’s efforts center on “trying to figure out ways the Federation can be more engaging, more expansive of experiences for all men connected to the Jewish community. No one Jewish is excluded.”
Notable people and events in the Jewish LA community.
The phrase “in the narrow places” comes from Lamentations 1:3. It’s a direct description of the People of Judah, now exiled, pursued even in the narrowest of places.
The story will continue to haunt Trump until he orders a complete and credible disclosure of all the cold facts about what happened in that jail cell.
The Jewish trauma we thought was buried has come roaring back, four generations after the Holocaust.
Taste Buds with Deb – Episode 116
Itay Benda, an Israeli singer, has found a unique way to advocate for Israel.
“Catalogue of Noses,” a 12-minute musical short, is a sharp and surprisingly devastating portrait of what happens when young girls internalize the idea that their natural face is a liability.
The people who write in this book are all wounded souls. Gone forever is the glib and certain faith that they may once have had, and in its place are the scars and the aches that will never go away.
The Braid will produce recipe videos and a filmed Shabbat conversation, accompanied by a nationally distributed Shabbat dinner discussion guide.
Arad Levertov had a bold idea: making everyday essentials more affordable through responsible lending.
Taragin’s volume is not a conventional academic history of his mentor. Rather, it offers a compendium of warm and wise anecdotes and lessons he learned studying under Amital.
The Community Hebrew Program at VBS, according to VBS, “will continue AJU’s legacy of enriching Jewish life through accessible Hebrew study resources.”
No matter where you’re born or how you were raised, one thing is certain — the more vegetables you place on the table, the more your family will learn to love them and expect them.
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