In an effort to stop officials from counting numerous votes cast in the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania, the Trump campaign appears to have gone all-in on a brazen plan: try to sow chaos and get the courts to throw out as many remaining mail-in ballots as possible, which are likely to heavily favor Joe Biden.

It would all be so damn terrifying if we weren’t all, well, used to it.

Let’s be clear about what’s happening: As his opponent Joe Biden edges closer to victory, Trump is launching tweet after tweet after tweet in an attempt to delegitimize the election. He’s filed lawsuits to stop the vote count in Pennsylvania and Michigan without evidence of wrongdoing. And he gave an early Wednesday address in which he prematurely claimed victory even though there were millions of votes to be counted in battleground states.

The Biden-Trump contest was held under a set of rules foisted on an unknowing public and likely to tilt the election… Don’t be fooled by the Biden team’s rhetoric that every ballot must be counted and all it takes is patience. Only valid, legally cast ballots should count.

It’s a truism that we’re not a monolith, but that’s a political cliche trotted out under the assumption that Latinos are nevertheless mostly liberal, with only a few regional anomalies. But that’s not the case… None of this is new, and I’m frankly getting bored of having to explain Latino conservatives every election cycle.

To be sure, it’s not entirely to the Trump campaign’s credit that so many Floridian Latinos bolted from Democrats in a panic this election. Democrats probably did most of the hard work on their own by demanding to return to lockdown whenever possible and excusing, if not outright encouraging, the looting and violence throughout the summer months.

Trump’s brash, privileged chest trumping and alpha-male dismissiveness and in-your-face rudeness are aspirational to some men and appealing to some women. Some people who have historically been oppressed will stand with the oppressors, and will aspire to power by proximity.

The record officially marks what was already clear: As winter nears, the country’s third surge of infection is dangerously accelerating in almost every region of the country. This is the reality that the United States is facing, regardless of who will become its next chief executive: A deadly respiratory pandemic is spiraling out of control, and the number of hospitalized people—and deaths—is certain to rise over the next several months.

It is exactly what the nation’s most prominent infectious disease specialist warned could happen during a second wave in cases this summer. “I would not be surprised if we go up to 100,000 [cases] a day if this does not turn around,” Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warned the Senate on June 30.

The record, 104,004 cases, was reached a day after the deeply divided nation went to the polls to choose between President Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden, an election widely seen as a choice between fully reopening the economy and aggressively quelling the outbreak.

Just as they split almost down the middle on the two candidates, voters broke into almost equal camps on how to address the pandemic that has killed more than 233,000 people and infected nearly 9.5 million people in the United States.

In 2020, European Jewry comprised just nine per cent of the world Jewish population, compared with 88 per cent in 1880… For the better part of a millennium, the continent had been the primary creative centre of Jewish life — the birthplace of Rashi and Maimonides, the source of Chasidism, musar, Zionism and Reform. Now its percentage of world Jewry was smaller than when the famed traveller Benjamin of Tudela ventured across the Jewish world 850 years ago.

The demographics of European Jewry would have been “totally different” without the impact of the Holocaust, DellaPergola told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in an interview about the report. “But that was 75 years ago, and some of the trends we’re seeing today, which are driving the decline, have little to do with the genocide,” he added. Among those trends is an increasing intermarriage rate and a decline in the reproduction rate of Jewish couples,

A total of nearly 335,000 Jews and members of their families have immigrated to Israel from Europe since 2000, over two-thirds of them from Russia and Ukraine alone. This followed a much larger wave of immigration the previous decade, which was prompted by the collapse of the Soviet empire. France was the third largest supplier of immigrants to Israel during the past two decades, with more than 51,000 (15 percent of the total).

White beans cooked in a tomato broth and served over rice are the quintessential Sephardic comfort food. And they are the perfect food to cook for these crisp, cool, short Autumn days… White beans have a delicate, nutty flavor and are wonderful additions to soups and stews, casseroles, chilis and cholents.

Tiberias was a walled city, and settlement was allowed only within the walls. As the population grew, living conditions became more and more cramped. Jews, Muslims, and Christians, almost all of them poor, lived in close proximity… This intimate coexistence, harmonious for most of the time, led to creation of a unique culinary subculture that fused local Arabic and Jewish Sephardic dishes, and even absorbed some Ashkenazi influences.

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While halakha has, over the years, developed tools that allow the religious believer to shrink those conflicts and keep them at a minimum, a perfect resolution is impossible. There inevitably comes a moment when the observant person cannot reconcile their moral convictions with their religious beliefs and has to choose one and negate the other.

In the book’s conclusion, Koller writes that reading the Akedah in a manner that allows for the suspension of natural ethics when faced with God’s command would fail to explain why anti-vaxxers, polygamists, those who refuse contraceptive coverage in health insurance plans, and religiously motivated terrorists are wrong in their actions (though he concedes, to the relief of the reader, that these acts are not to be equated morally).

What seems missing to me in reassuring interpretations of the Akedah such as Koller’s is that they read it as eradicating the notion of a father’s debt to God as a religious mistake. In contrast, the Bible itself returns to it obsessively, almost inevitably subverting or sublimating it, but never simply giving it up.