Jewish Current Issues

Politics for the Common Good

This free webinar by American Jewish University will be broadcast on Monday, October 26, at Noon Pacific (3 p.m. Eastern; 10 p.m. Israeli time). You can sign up at the link:

https://www.aju.edu/byachad-together/events/Politics-for-the-Common-Good: 

Dr. Eilon Schwartz was invested in creating sustainable environments in Israel when he became increasingly concerned by the extreme social and political polarization and divisions he witnessed in all areas of national life. He therefore created the Shaharit Institute, a think tank and leadership incubator, that seeks to create politics that unite all aspects of Israeli society.

Join him in conversation with AJU’s scholar-in-residence, Rick Richman, to discuss the challenges Israelis face at this moment and how they might create a new national dynamic.

The Striking Parallels Between the Nominations of Louis D. Brandeis and Amy Coney Barrett

https://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/history-ideas/2020/10/what-the-first-senate-hearing-for-a-supreme-court-nominee-shows/

Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination, and the possibility of another contentious Senate confirmation hearing, evoke the first time the Senate ever held such a hearing, a little over a century ago—when President Woodrow Wilson nominated, in the same election year in which he was running for a second term, a jurist who belonged to one of America’s religious minorities, and whose views were thought incompatible with the conventional opinions shared by the Washington establishment.

That nominee would go on to become the first Jewish justice to sit on the Supreme Court.

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