Because Swedish Yiddish sex ed is the best sex ed
Some ACA resources
Urban Institute: Implications of Partial Repeal of the ACA through Reconciliation
Center for Budget and Policy Priorities: Eliminating Two ACA Medicare Taxes Means Very Large Tax Cuts for High Earners and the Wealthy
Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah in Yiddish
Mazel Tov to the Forward for recording Daniel Kahn’s brilliant “transdaption” of the Leonard Cohen classic.
My mother, my teacher
Reprinted from this week’s Jewish Standard.
On Shabbat morning, August 8, 2015, my mother died. On Sunday, October 16, her gravestone will be unveiled. Here is the eulogy I delivered at her funeral.
“My mother, my teacher,” is how we refer to our mothers when we pray for their blessing in the Grace after Meals.
My mother unquestionably was my earliest teacher, but those earliest lessons date from long before my memories coalesced. What I can remember, though, what stands out for me, and what I want to share, is what my mother taught me in her final months of cancer and illness, through both example and conversation.
How Trump promises to make the 1% richer again
“If they get the chance, Paul Ryan and the Republicans will do what they say they want to do. They are true believers, cult-like in their allegiance to the money power, and religious in their devotion to the alleged character-building benefits of poverty. They are not committed to building a viable political commonwealth. They are committed to something very much darker.”
How Trump stole from shareholders who trusted him
<a href=”http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/10/6/13163220/trump-hotels-and-casino-resorts?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=entry&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook”>http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/10/6/13163220/trump-hotels-and-casino-resorts?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=entry&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook</a>
A Vox article spells out the scam.