Op-Eds

The reason that so many Americans do not want Kamala Harris has nothing to do with her name or where her parents were born. Rather, it is because, first of all, she got her opportunity to advance geometrically in politics by cavorting in a manner that is reprehensible. First she says she will end private health insurance; then she reverses. She says we should consider giving imprisoned violent felons the right to vote; then she reverses after an outcry.

Voters will decide in November whether they want Kamala Harris to be their president some time in the next four years. Of almost equally significant concern is what Harris represents to hard-working women across the country who devote years to their careers to rise to higher positions of importance.

Democrats truly got woke when they woke up to see the other side of illegal immigration: California. They saw that, unable to turn over Republican states by arguing their ideas, they could turn them instead by just importing a new population of voters.

I put the question out on a Young Israel Rabbis chat that I belong to: “Do you observe that Modern Orthodox young marrieds are not coming back to shul?” I was stunned by the number of answers that I received from rabbis in many parts of the country, with the exact same observation.

The open letter asserted the import of candidates’ moral character and ethical example and the necessity of not appearing to embrace the caustic and noxious values of unsavory politicians. Nothing at all was stated about the affirmative need to at times vote for and even work amicably with such individuals for pragmatic purposes, albeit while holding our noses, so to say. Hence my response.

Modern-day corrupt and scandalous comportment by presidents and presidential candidates brings us back to the Kennedys, Lyndon Johnson and of course Richard Nixon, and most likely much further.

I know how crazy this opening sentence sounds, but … if Louis Farrakhan were not such a Hitler-like Jew-hater and race baiter, he actually would be pretty good.

Barr is strong and fierce, does not give an inch, does not get thrown off message, sticks to his guns, and sticks it to those who would take him down.

Eighty percent of American Jews have absolutely no idea what Judaism is. You see them on TV. You read them in some publications. Sometimes they say that they are motivated by their “Jewish values.” In reality, the vast majority of them would not know real Judaism if it were placed on their laps, served on their plates, or sung to them on their iPods.