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Why One More Frustrating Week Helps Kavanaugh and the GOP
President Trump, whom The Resistance portrays regularly as an irrational authoritarian who is bull-headed and listens to no one, swiftly agreed to the compromise proposal. Lots of good will come this November from hanging in there.
JTA: Progressive Jewish groups denounce Senate panel’s vote to advance Kavanaugh, while conservatives praise it
“It is obvious that the FBI investigation should have happened months earlier, but conducting it now will permit Judge Kavanaugh to take his seat on the Supreme Court without a cloud of suspicion,” the organization’s president, Rabbi Pesach Lerner, said in a statement to JTA.
Baltimore Jewish Life: Rabbis Urge Immediate Confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh
‘Is it now the American way to discard an outstanding candidate,’ asked Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld, Vice President of the CJV, ‘based solely upon an uncorroborated, unsubstantiated accusation that is even contradicted by those named to support it?’
Rabbis Urge Immediate Confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh
People can easily make mistakes and harm the innocent. Furthermore, we should be judged on the totality of our lives, not merely on one alleged incident, and certainly not on an incident that is unsubstantiated and unprovable.
The Ford-Kavanaugh Hearing Played Maximally Well for the Republicans Under the Circumstances
Looking back on the day’s riveting events, it is amazing how effectively the Republicans and Judge Kavanaugh sidestepped the perils and emerged perhaps even stronger than the morning augured.
OK, Now It’s Really ‘I’m Spartacus’ Time!
Men also deserve to be believed.
JTA: How to understand the Kavanaugh allegations, according to rabbis
The Torah [requires] two witnesses, neither of whom was the accuser or any close relative of the accuser or the accused, [who] were fully investigated and interrogated before they were accepted. The Torah is very concerned about the rights and reputation of the accused, and that is the Jewish view.
Show Trial
Guilt was presupposed and foreordained. Those who confessed were executed and those who refused to confess were also executed. The only difference was that those who confessed might succeed in sparing their immediate family members from exile or execution.
The Forward: Petition Demands Punishment For Prof Who Wouldn’t Write Recommendation For Israel Gig
The letter, sent Friday to university president Mark Schlissel, was signed by Jewish, Israel advocacy and political organizations and organized by the AMCHA Initiative, a nonprofit seeking to combat campus anti-Semitism.
Democrats and Kavanaugh, Spartacus and Crucifixion
I find myself so upset now over the viciousness of the Democrats these past several weeks that I have to write. I think of the words that open Chapter 62 of Isaiah: “For Zion’s sake I cannot hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I cannot remain silent until her righteousness goes forth as brightness and her salvation as a flaming torch.”