I can’t think of a better way to honor his legacy than to remember how he tried to bring our country together through the shared ideals expressed at our founding.
Imagine the outcry if a group of Jewish public schoolteachers would announce a 鈥淶ionist teach-in鈥� for MLK Day. Would Mayor Mamdani allow such a disruption of a national holiday?
The butchers of Tehran love their own freedom to be butchers. What they can鈥檛 seem to stomach is to give their people the same freedom to be human.
It鈥檚 well-known that the hate that starts with Jews never ends with Jews. Hating Jews, in other words, is suicidal, which makes it even more stupid.
Imagine how Iranian protesters who are risking their lives must feel as they see demonstrations around the world about Gaza and not Iran.
The obsession with Jews will always have a negative slant. That鈥檚 the way the media ball bounces. But while the news will only show us the bad, it is up to the Jews to show us the good.
Year after year, 365 days a year, his legions of fans would tune in every morning for 鈥淐offee with Scott Adams,鈥� which included the famous 鈥渟imultaneous sip.鈥�
Even if we give Wiener the benefit of the doubt that he didn鈥檛 do this for political reasons and really means it, at least he could have done his homework.
On the one-year anniversary of a nightmare, this is the news that matters most: the shameful failure of civic leadership to deal with an emergency made worse by sheer incompetence.
Love him or hate him, after what we saw in Caracas, no one will be shocked if Trump reaches a breaking point with Tehran. Persians around the world will surely be praying for that this weekend.
