“The man went to space, and it may have taken that experience to bring him down to earth.” Read our review ➤ “Shatner betrays a generosity of spirit guided by a thirst for knowledge and a philosophy of interconnectedness, with chapters on animal life, music and even his own limitations,” writes our PJ Grisar. Is William Shatner’s ‘Life of Awe’ the memoir we need now? Just in time for Yom Kippur, the book offers the Star Trek actor’s lessons on personal growth and the world around us.
“I generally do three synagogues on Shabbat online,” said Susan Levine, 66, of Sonoma, California. The trend continues, even as synagogues have opened back up for in-person services. Now you can pray across time zones and denominations, checking out services at multiple congregations over the course of a few hours. Louis and Ma’ariv in Minneapolis shul surfing has become a thing: When COVID-19 turned synagogue sanctuaries into television studios, with cameras, lighting and tech crews, it also gave Jews across the country nearly endless choices. “Apparently now it is some kind of racist thing if I talk about the school,” Mastriano said. On Saturday, Mastriano repeated his attack against Shapiro for sending his kids to “elite” Jewish schools, which many have called antisemitic. A new poll shows Pennsylvania’s Attorney General Josh Shapiro, the Democrats’ nominee for governor, maintaining a double-digit lead over his GOP rival, State Sen.“The 2022 battle for Congress runs directly through the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” said Matt Brooks, RJC’s executive director. The Republican Jewish Coalition has invested more than $1.2 million in two competitive House races in Pennsylvania – backing Lisa Scheller, who is Jewish and challenging incumbent Democratic Rep.Raphael Warnock, the Democratic senator from Georgia, who is running for reelection against Trump-backed Herschel Walker. The Jewish Democratic Women for Action is co-hosting today an “apples & honey” event in support of Rev.Josh Gottheimer, another New Jersey Democrat, is hosting a hearing in Teaneck today on the rise in antisemitism.Īnd political activists are in high gear as early voting kicks off in several states for the November midterms. Israel’s Kann News reported Sunday that Netanyahu has said in private conversations that the Biden administration is trying to intervene in the Israeli elections to influence the outcome. Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, warned Netanyahu in a recent meeting that forming a government with right-wing extremists would further damage bipartisan support for Israel in Congress.
Meanwhile, Netanyahu is expected to release a memoir in mid-October, and has scheduled a virtual book tour with American audiences.Īnd Sen. Speaking of the Israeli elections, recent polls suggest Netanyahu could pull together a bloc of 60 Knesset seats, one short of the majority required to form a government. Former Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu criticized the move, saying it amounted to surrender, and indicated he would overturn the deal if returned to the premiership following the Nov. Israel welcomed on Sunday a U.S.-brokered maritime border deal with Lebanon that will allow the two countries to produce natural gas and operate its offshore fields in the Mediterranean Sea without dispute. Speaking of Kushner, our Rob Eshman has been wondering what the former Son-in-Law-in-Chief might be repenting for this Yom Kippur, since there’s no hint of teshuvah in his recently published memoir. Read the story ➤ĭuring a campaign rally on Saturday, Trump denied the book’s revelation that he nearly fired Kushner and daughter Ivanka Trump from their White House roles, calling the Pulitzer Prize-winning Haberman a “really bad” reporter. It also details Kushner’s role as a gatekeeper – canceling a meeting about Middle East peace because he was not invited and bypassing the Department of Justice to lobby his father-in-law to commute the 27-year prison sentence of Sholom Rubashkin, a kosher meat executive who was found guilty of 86 counts of bank fraud. ‘He sounds like a child’: What Trump thought of Kushner, and more Jewish highlights from Maggie Haberman’s new book: Former President Donald Trump often diminished and mocked his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, despite giving him an outsized role in the White House, according to Haberman’s book, which is set to publish on Tuesday. Our senior political reporter, Jacob Kornbluh, shares what’s in his notebook…
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