At a rally in Texas, former president Donald Trump announced his intention to pardon some January 6th insurrectionists if he is reelected.
This is dangerous, given that just over one year ago there was a violent attack on our Capitol by Trump supporters based on a lie Trump had created and spread about election fraud.
It’s perfectly in keeping with his playbook — and a complete betrayal of the vision of the president’s clemency power which has served America well for so long.
For the second time in two weeks, Donald Trump laid an egg. And that should tell us something: The Trump show is getting old.
After a controversial comment about the Holocaust on “The View,” Whoopi went on Stephen Colbert’s show to clear the air. In the wake of the apology, she has been suspended temporarily from “The View.”
In the final moments of her segment on Colbert, Goldberg seemed not to internalize the reason why her comments enraged so many Jews. “I’m going to take your word for it, and never bring it up again,” she said tersely to Colbert, perhaps tongue in cheek.
My heart sank when I heard these words — not because I am dying to hear more of Goldberg’s opinions on the Holocaust, but because I heard a door closing inside of her.
If you can believe it, Goldberg didn’t restrict her comments to just her daytime show. She repeated herself, and worse, that same day during a taping of an interview with CBS’s Stephen Colbert.
She should not be fired. She stepped in it… it’s very clear that she does better when someone controls her written apology than when she actually goes back to how she actually feels.
President Biden has promised to nominate a black woman to fill Justice Breyer’s soon-to-be vacated seat on the Supreme Court. More at The Hill.
Cultural leftists have decided that discrimination is good, as long as it’s done in the name of “equity.”
Nominating Supreme Court justices has always been about identity and politics. It’s just that for nearly the first two centuries of the court’s existence, the only people considered for inclusion were white men.
Black women’s impact on the laws of this country is too often unvalued and unheard, whether it’s Ida B. Wells’ crusade against lynching to the foundational civil rights work of Pauli Murray, which was built upon by household names like Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Miriam Anzovin is being praised for her funny, accessible TikTok videos explaining the Talmud. Others worry that holy text should not be combined with an irreverent attitude.
From my perspective, Rabbi Yochanan would have LOVED being called a “legendary hottie.” His hanging around the Mikva’ot so all the women could see him is the ancient equivalent of a modern Insta thirst trap
My incredible Talmud professor just stated that the quietest revolution in the world is women studying gemara. It occurs to me that perhaps the controversy over @Anzovina‘s TikTok channel is that she refuses to be quiet.
One way to frame the question is “How much reverence are we willing to sacrifice on the altar of breezy accessibility?”
I respect that @Anzovina has made her decision. Others (myself included) can make theirs.
Former Giants player Barry Bonds was not voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, reportedly because of his alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs during his career.
Messrs. Bonds and Clemens may not have been saints, but they were great players. Pretending anything else matters is hypocrisy.
This might sound like the height of moralizing to some, but cheating can’t be condoned with a Hall of Fame vote.
…although it’s widely suspected that Bonds juiced, he never actually tested positive. There are also a rack of players already in the Hall of Fame who meet this description…
Today is Rosh Chodesh, the first day of the Hebrew month of Adar. This year, however, there are two months called Adar. Why is the month sometimes doubled?
An ordinary year has only one Adar. In a leap year there are two – Adar Rishon (Adar I) and Adar Sheni (Adar II).
Leap years occur seven times in every 19 years and ensure that the Jewish lunar calendar is able to tally with the solar calendar.
I was born in the month of Adar, and I look forward to it each year. It’s a month that we often associate with joy—with the cheer-filled holiday of Purim. Some years, like this one, we even get two Adars as a part of the Jewish leap year. Double the Adar, double the joy.
Adar I is the “Extra Adar”, added 7 out of the 19 calendrical cycle years to resolve the solar/lunar gap. All the other months of the year have their Tribal Ruler, but who is the Tribal Ruler of Adar Aleph? It’s Yoseph, the hidden Tzadik, Tzadik being the Hebrew letter associated with Aquarius, through which the Sun transits through most of Chodesh Adar I. “Yosef” means to add, and Adar I is the added month.