Imagine if I wrote an article stating how I love the KKK and think the Grand Wizard is great – or that slavery was a great boon to the United States; too bad it was abolished.
I’m one of those Jews who gets bothered by the small stuff. I’m living in Baltimore for about two and a half years now, and I take note of a lot of little oddities. Yet these oddities may define the town. My kids think that I am annoyed by these issues, but I am really amused, not annoyed. Peri and I very much miss the wonderful community of Kew Gardens Hills, but we have adjusted well to things here, baruch Hashem.
By the time you read this article, a lecture on the topic of “The Failure of American Jewish Leadership,” by Dr. Charles Jacobs, will have been delivered at the Young Israel of Hillcrest.
Attention university students, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, AOC, Jerrold Nadler, Gregory Meeks (both of the latter did not vote with the majority to sanction the ICC for criminalizing Israel), Bernie Sanders, Code Pink, Jewish Voices for Peace, assorted liberal Democrats, the Pope, Candace Owens, Ireland, Australia, Brazil, the ICC, and of course the United Nations:
Chaskel Bennett, an outspoken Jewish leader with roots right here in Kew Gardens Hills, wrote an outstanding article for JNS on January 24. If given some thought, the article opens the doorway to understand how thoroughly hypocritical and ridiculous the Left is. Meaningless gestures or statements are twisted to attack or for character assassination – their specialty.
Last week, I wrote about the year in review, as for who were the good guys and who were the bad guys when it came to supporting Israel. This week, I would like to dabble in my wishes and realities for the new secular year.