Rahm Emanuel and Ro Khanna Punch the Israel Card
For Democrats, the Jewish state and the Palestinians have become the most important political props.
July 15, 2026
Maintaining standards, and bending them, in small-town West Virginia.
Upon becoming the student rabbi at a Reform congregation in Williamson, West Virginia, Gary Zola discovered that congregants expected him to visit them at their places of business on Shabbat morning. He recounts the experience, and his initial shock at the expectation that he was to go to such length for members of his flock who neither observed the Sabbath nor attended synagogue:
For Democrats, the Jewish state and the Palestinians have become the most important political props.
A broad view of the ongoing war.
Back to the 13th century.
My Father’s Courthouse.
Maintaining standards, and bending them, in small-town West Virginia.
Upon becoming the student rabbi at a Reform congregation in Williamson, West Virginia, Gary Zola discovered that congregants expected him to visit them at their places of business on Shabbat morning. He recounts the experience, and his initial shock at the expectation that he was to go to such length for members of his flock who neither observed the Sabbath nor attended synagogue:
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