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When COVID struck the United States, I thought it would be a unifying force. I naively reasoned that the pandemic would bring people together. I believed that the bitter polarization that began with the crash of the Stock Market in 2007-2008 would finally end. I was wrong. COVID has caused a further rupture in society. It has brought health care workers closer but few others.

The antisemitic terrorist hostage-taking ordeal that occurred in Colleyville, Texas, brought to the surface once again bitter memories of the Holocaust. Jews were singled out simply because they were Jews. Antisemitism raised its ugly head again for all to see.

The Jews have always been a lightning rod for the world’s ills, perceived or otherwise. The more antisemitic acts multiply, the more politicians should be concerned about their ability to govern. Terrorism abounds when society weakens.

There is an old cliché that when you are young you are a liberal, and when older, you are a conservative. There have been various versions attributed to a number of great people.

America is in distress because the Democratic Party is on life support.

There was a time when bipartisanship was the rule rather than the exception. Now the polarization in America is so extreme that anything that comes close to bipartisanship is derided and dismissed.

The Western Wall, which according to some, was left standing by Titus to be a constant painful reminder of his triumph over the Jews and Jerusalem in 70 CE, has once again made headlines. Jews have prayed at the Western Wall for 2,000 years. It has been one of our greatest dreams and goals for two millennia. The generation of today has to realize how hard it was to pray at the Kotel. The recapturing of the Kotel in the 1967 War was one of the greatest miracles I have ever witnessed in my life. It should never be taken for granted.