Pick-me-up achieved. Thank you. And an early (or late) Shabbat shalom to all.

Neither one is treated as a serious threat.

Not to mention the WHO’s having Israel (and no other country) as a standing agenda item.

I agree, cash to Gaza is a huge problem, but our government doesn’t work by having anyone wave a finger and abolish a congressional act.

Revise USAID, rejigger how this deployment of aid and soft power, or even shut it down if needed.

But not this way.

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Fantastic thread. Thank you.

What perfect timing!

I haven’t looked at it for a while either, but I appreciated the approach and his knowledge. (This includes the implicit view of a fallible Gd and multiplicity of metaphors for Gd.)

Thanks (truly) for sharing your experience and for listening. :)

A fun/interesting read if you haven’t encountered it might be Jack Miles’s God: A Biography (or is it A Biography of God?)

Jesuit background, reads the Tanakh with Gd as the protagonist as an exercise (while aware of scholarship).

The 2,000 lb bombs to clear the tunnels?

No thanks. Everything is not all one way or the other way.

Ok. If you feel like sharing name (and his parents name), please do, but either way, refuah shleimah.
May he recover smoothly.

Will read and comment.

Kennedy. Yeesh.

The movie version is on YouTube.

Thank you very much. This is…Concerning, to put it mildly.

Thank you. If I find out anything else I’ll post.

An Afikomen pouch, obviously, for the New Year’s matzah.

For me at least, “progressive” has become a warning that antisemitism and other bigotries are likely to abound.

Well-spotted, thanks. I should drill down.