Tikkun Olam

Obama's not recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is right in line with the rest of his attitude and policies towards the only Jewish State.  Naomi Ragen is spot on with her article, Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me .  I didn't vote for him the first time around.  And I won't vote for him the second. Here is an excerpt.  Click on the link above to read the entire article. Obama has managed to do so much harm while taking more vacations and playing more golf than any other president in US history. I have never felt more challenged than I did four years ago when I did my best to enlighten my American list-members to some of the dangers of hopping on presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama’s bandwagon. But nothing swayed his Jewish supporters: not the fact that he had radical left-wing political mentors, nor his Islamic heritage and education, nor even his close 20-year relationship with the virulently anti-Semitic Reverend Jeremiah Wright. They weren...

I am an Orthodox Jew, and I am opposed to public buses being gender-segregated, either in Israel or here in the States.  Note, I said public buses.  The Haredi (Ultra-Orthodox) community, in my opinion, can hire private buses wherever they be, be it Bnei Brak in Israel or Borough Park in New York, and enforce their own rules however they like.  But not on public buses with city franchises. Apparently, this had been going on for quite a while on a route from Borough Park to Williamsburg , with officials looking the other way. Not anymore: Faced with the choice of losing its franchise with the city or allowing women riders to sit where they please, a Brooklyn bus line that is authorized and monitored by New York’s Department of Transportation says it won’t engage in gender segregation. But it appears that in the company’s nearly four decades plying the streets between Borough Park and Williamsburg, government officials may have long known about the company’s impr...