Next year in Jerusalem

The HuffingtonPost writes about three junior staffers working on the 2008 Presidential campaign who conducted an impromptu seder at the Sheraton hotel. They were joined by Senator Obama.


Eric: And at the end everybody raises their glasses and there is a tradition when you say: Next year in Jerusalem. So we all raised our glasses and said ‘Next year in Jerusalem’ and then we all put our glasses down and then Obama raised his glass and said: ‘Next year in the White House.’ And we all said yes, and raised our glasses. It was a very poignant moments because it was really one of the lowest points within the 2008 campaign.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/14/white-house-seder-_n_5146629.html?utm_hp_ref=religion


Frank Bruni writes about The Oldest Hatred, Forever Young.

Following 9/11, there was enormous concern that all Muslims would be stereotyped and scapegoated, and this heightened sensitivity lingers. It partly explains what just happened at Brandeis University. The school had invited Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a celebrated advocate for Muslim women, to receive an honorary degree. But when some professors and students complained, citing statements of hers that seemed broadly derisive of Islam, the invitation was withdrawn. Clearly, university officials didn’t want their campus seen as a cradle or theater of Islamophobia.

But other college campuses in recent years have been theaters of anti-Israel discussions that occasionally veer toward, or bleed into, condemnations of Jews.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/15/opinion/the-oldest-hatred-forever-young.html

Thomas Friedman opines, "Kerry, in my view, is doing the Lord’s work."


Does Mr. Friedman have a version of the Old Testament with the verse "And the Lord said to John Kerry, Thou shalt pressure My nation to release prisoners who murdered my people but Thou shalt not free Jonathan Pollard"?


His version of the Haggadah must read "Next year in a divided Jerusalem.