Tuesday, 20 August 2019

7 Lawmakers Who Opposed Iran Deal and Trump’s Decision to Withdraw From It

From RRW
https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/7-lawmakers-opposed-iran-deal-trumps-decision-withdraw

Roe v. Wade -- Abortion Won the Day, but Sooner or Later That Day Will End | National Review

From RRW
https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/01/abortion-roe-v-wade-unborn-children-women-feminism-march-life/.

Watch "Werner Klemperer on "The Pat Sajak Show"

From RRW

Criticism of Israel Is Not Anti-Semitism; Anti-Zionism Is - Dennis Prager

From RRW 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0819/prager082019.php3

Tlaib mourns cancelled West Bank trip with Jewish supporters in Detroit

From RRW
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-tlaib-mourns-cancelled-west-bank-trip-with-jewish-supporters-in-detroit-1.7692634

Omar, Tlaib rightly blocked from visiting Israel

From RRW

Tlaib hits back at Bill Maher for comments on BDS, compares Israel to apartheid South Africa

From RRW
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rashida-tlaib-suggests-boycott-of-bill-mahers-show-for-hosts-position-on-israel

Monday, 19 August 2019

Most Orthodox Jews are Republicans and 11 other findings from Pew

From RRW
https://www.jta.org/2015/08/26/united-states/how-many-orthodox-jews-are-republicans-and-11-other-findings-from-pew-on-orthodox-jews

80% of Reform rabbis are Democrats. That's higher than any other clergy.

From RRW
https://www.jta.org/2017/06/12/politics/80-of-reform-rabbis-are-democrats-thats-far-higher-than-any-other-clergy

American Jews and Israeli Jews Are Headed for a Messy Breakup

From RRW

Alan Dershowitz's ludicrous, pitiful, conspiratorial and dangerous defense of Benjamin Netanyahu

From RRW
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-dershowitz-s-ludicrous-pitiful-conspiratorial-and-dangerous-defense-of-netanyahu-1.6984632

Rachel Maddow’s Racial Smear of Second Circuit Nominee Steven Menashi

From RRW
https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/rachel-maddows-racial-smear-of-second-circuit-nominee-steven-menashi/

Saturday, 17 August 2019

Mussar: Stoicism on Shemirat Shemirat Lashon from Epictetus

From RRW
Below is an excerpt from the hand-book, Perhaps The clearest Stoic statement about gossip

33.1. Lay down from this moment a certain character and pattern of behavior for yourself, which you are to preserve both when you're alone and when you're with others.

2. Remain silent for the most part, or say only what is essential, and in few words. Very infrequently, however , when the occasion demands , do speak, but not about any of the usual topics, not about gladiators, not about horse-races, not about athletes, not about food and drink, the subjects of everyday talk;

*but above all, don't talk about people , either to praise or criticize them, or to compare them.*

~ Epictetus (2014-01-10).

Discourses, Fragments, Handbook (Oxford World's Classics) (p. 297). Oxford University Press. Kindle Edition