Haley Stevens Endorsed the Republican
Two days before Michigan votes, her own staff walked out on her.
Haley Stevens endorsed the Republican. Rep. Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed's rival in Michigan's Democratic Senate primary, backed Republican Mike Rogers on Sunday, two days before Election Day. She cited El-Sayed's campus appearances with streamer Hasan Piker: "We can't stand with hate." Chuck Schumer called it "a despicable betrayal," and many of her staff, including her chief of staff, resigned. 1
Israel's election chief says the count stands. Justice Noam Sohlberg, chair of the Central Elections Committee, said Sunday that the Oct. 27 vote was "conducted properly" and that suspected Qatari or Turkish payments to Arab voters are "only suspicions." Likud replied that "a mere 4,612 votes" kept a seat with Ra'am instead of the right. 2
Britney Spears is reading Psalms. Spears posted an Instagram photo Sunday of a Hebrew book of Psalms beside another Jewish prayer book, captioned "Just bored reading Hebrew" and "Reading right to left," each followed by three exclamation points. We get one exclamation point per edition. 3
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted more than 3,700 words on Friday defending his Oct. 26 Grand Rapids speech for Mike Rogers, where he said Arabs "don't produce" science and literature. He meant Islamism, he wrote, then pointed out that Jews, about 0.2 percent of the world, have won some 200 science Nobels. "There is no ethnic or religious group that has contributed more than Jews to the welfare of humanity," he wrote. 4
Our view: no thanks. Praise for Jews delivered as a stick to hit another people with is not friendship. It turns Jewish achievement into a prop in someone else's case against Arabs, and Jews never asked to be the exhibit. Also, his list of Jewish contributions included Karl Marx, which he did not run past many Jewish grandparents. 4
The Balfour Declaration turns 109 on Monday (22 Cheshvan). Arthur Balfour's 1917 letter to Lord Rothschild promised one thing to Jews in Palestine and another to the rest of us: nothing could prejudice "the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country." This week's parsha: Chayei Sara. 567
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