1. President Biden's obstinate endorsement of his administration's pathetic, rushed initiation of the American abandonment of Afghanistan inspired, as one would have expected, an outpouring of hate on the internet among the usual suspects.
In short order, just one of my favorite correspondents had dropped columns of ascending offense. The authors? Larry Kudlow (still advocating for dangerous treatments of COVID, as well); Mike Pence arguing that Biden breached the Trump "agreement" with the Taliban; and Caroline Glick, the latter the most egregious building her hateful diatribe this time on several false premises the most prominent that the President needed to be dragged from vacation (he was at Camp David) to face the Afghan crisis.
2. A recent headline in Haaretz advised that the Chief Rabbi (this time Sephardi — Rabbi Yitzchak Yousuf) has opined that allowing women to take supervisory roles in Israel’s corrupt kashrut certification process will lead to sexual immorality. And, how does he know this? This kind of drivel spews forth with a vulgar frequency.
3. In the wake of Hurricane Ida, JFNA (for which FRD is but a vague concept -- so 1980's) broke out the old Mailbox but announced that this is a "dedicated Mailbox." Something new? Doubtful. Something impactful? Doubtful.
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Baruch Dayan haEmet.
Richard Wexler z'l
We lost one of the greats!
I am deeply saddened to read of Richard's death. We will miss his wise and generous counsel, his unbounded generosity and love for Chicago and K'lal Yisroel, and his unfiltered and fearless perspectives on the organizational health of the American Jewish community in particular. Many years ago, as a rookie professional at the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago, I was privileged to staff a young leadership group under his tutelage and mentorship. May his memory live as a blessing!
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