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OCTOBER 29, 2015 | The Jewish Home The Jewish Home | JANUARY 7, 2021

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The Jewish Home | OCTOBER 29, 2015

I went from being A-list celebrity, I was going to all the fashion shows, all the Met galas, all the operas, all the Broadway shows, I was on David Letterman, I was on Jimmy Kimmel, I was all over. But Israel was just pulling at me. … It was definitely an experience for me, a humbling experience. I truly had to humble myself completely, to go from this top-level situation to more of a downgrade, but for the sake of Torah. So that was the idea and why I made that decision.

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“Say What?!”

- Amar’e Stoudemire during a recent Zoom call organized by the UJA Federation of New York, as reported by JTA

Father Daughter Mother Son - Among the words that the Democrat-led House of Representatives has banned in its chamber because they are not gender neutral

This is stupid. Signed, - A father, son, and brother. - Tweet by Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), in response to the craziness

It absolutely does the very opposite of that With 3,000 Americans dying every day, and it’s the height of hypocrisy for people what are the president and a big chunk of who claim to be the champions of rights Congressional Republicans focused on? for women to work deny the veryShe biological Senator Kamala Harris started her life’s young. laughs Undermining the results of the election, existence of women from her gut, the way you would with family, as she remembers essentially a bloodless coup. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) being wheeled civil rights march team clearspent picture of our force posture around the through an Oakland, California, –My Jake Tapperneeds of CNN,awhich years spreading the Russian Hoax stroller with no straps with her parents and her uncle. At some world and our operations to deter our enemies. in Wea need full Their first as this new congress point, she fell from the stroller (fewact safety regulations existedcould for visibility into the budget planning underway at the Defense have been to make sure that elderly children’s equipment back then), and the adults, caught up in the Department and other agencies in order to avoid any window of Americans are able to get the COVID This was something far worse than rapture of protest, just kept on marching. By the time they noticed confusion or catch up that our adversaries may try to exploit. But as vaccine now alongside frontline healthcare occurred in Watergate. Kamalafrom was gone and doubled back, she was understandably I said from the beginning, we have encounteredlittle roadblocks workers, elderly Americans who have the - Journalist Carl Bernstein, of Watergate fame, claiming that upset.and “Mythe mother tells the story about how I’m fussing,” Harris says, the political leadership at the Department of Defense Office a phone call that Pres. Trump had with the Sec. of State of highest mortality rates from this virus, Georgia was worse thanand Watergate, adding to thenow, dozens like,all ‘Baby, what do you want? What do you need?’ And I of Management Budget. Right we just “and aren’tshe’s getting but instead of doing something that of other times that he made that same claim about any looked at her and I said, ‘Fweedom.’” the information that we need from the outgoingjust administration number of Trump’s actions could actually help save people’s lives, - From recent of profile about Kamala Harris, in a noted magazine in key national security areas. It’s nothing short, in myaview, they’re choosing instead to say, well, you irresponsibility. can’tinsay mother or when fatherainwhite any of this I never will forget a moment Birmingham - Joe Biden, a press conference week There is a in growing body oflast evidence that congressional language. It’s astounding. policeman accosted a little Negro girl, seven or eight years old, who the lab is likely the most credible source of - Ibid. walkingwith in a demonstration with her mother. “What do you Thevirus. Department of Defense has conducted 164 was interviews the want?” the policeman asked her gruffly, and the little girl looked him 400 officials, andMatthew provided overpositing 5,000 pages of documents -over U.S. national security adviser Pottinger that coronavirus came from a lab requested in China straightteam. in the eye and answered, “Fee-dom.” – far more than initially by Biden’s transition As a standup comic, I can tell you, my - From a 1965 interview Luther King, Jr. DOD’s efforts already surpass those of recent administrations withof Martin entire life is concentration fatigue. Whether over three weeks to go, and we continue to schedule additional it’s writing or performing, my brain and I’m willing to take it but I’m not the priority... meetings for the remainder of the transition and answer any and all my body, which is the same thing, are Granted I’m an elected official but whoop Thanks @Walmart for your insulting condescension. Now that requests for information in our purview. constantly hitting the wall. And if you have dee doo. At the end of the day, let’s focus you’ve insulted 75 million Americans, will you at least apologize for – Statement by Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller in response [Transcendental Meditation] in your hip on where the risk is. using slave labor? pocket, you’re Columbus with a compass. - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis when asked whether he will get the Covid vaccine

So here’s the thing about uprooting systemic racism: one, it’s everywhere. It’s almost like the air we breathe.

- Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) tweeting a response to Walmart after its official Twitter account - Comedian Jerry Seinfeld about Transcendental called him a “sore loser” for questioning the legitimacy of thetalking 2020 election Meditation during a recent episode of the podcast, “The Tim Ferriss Show.”

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