Jonathan Sacks: God is telling the Prophet to speak, regardless of whether people will listen. We must register dissent even if the probability of changing minds is small. It is not enough to be righteous if that means turning our backs on a society that is guilty of wrongdoing. It is not enough to be good. We must encourage others to be good.
Carole R. Fontaine: the possibility of Sheba’s African origin is not out of the question. For Christians, she is identified with the queen of the South (Matt 12:42; Luke 11:31) or Candace (Acts 8:27) of Ethiopia
Judge Julia #Sebutinde (Uganda) has been elected as the first African woman vice-president of the #ICJ for a term of three years.#JFJNews pic.twitter.com/D0sZcRlGbK
— JFJustice (@JFJustice) February 6, 2024
I’m proud to announce that I am nominating Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the Supreme Court. Currently serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, she is one of our nation’s brightest legal minds and will be an exceptional Justice.https://t.co/iePvhz1YaA pic.twitter.com/Nzqv2AtN8h
— President Biden (@POTUS) February 25, 2022
Her appointment would add a strong, progressive voice to the court for decades to come, but it would not alter the court’s current ideological balance, which now skews 6-3 toward Republican-appointed justices.
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) February 25, 2022
Read more from @DavidGSavage & @EliStokols at https://t.co/nPfJn8P9H9
Clarence Thomas: For that reason, in future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court's substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell. Because any substantive due process decision is "demonstrably erroneous."
Ryan Huber: It may come as a surprise, but there are zero Protestant SCOTUS justices. You read that correctly: zero. All of the current Supreme Court justices are either Catholic or Jewish.
MAYA GUR ARIEH: Former head of the Mossad, Yossi Meir Cohen, reportedly pressured former ICC prosecutor Fatou Bom Nyang~Bensouda to close the investigation of Israeli war crimes, The Guardian reported on Tuesday. Another source told The Guardian that Cohen was acting as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's "unofficial messenger." The Guardian quoted Cohen as saying, "You should help us and let us take care of you. You don't want to be getting into things that could compromise your security or that of your family."
YOEL COHEN: Rabbinical court judges (dayanim), in determining decisions (piskei din), require not only mastery of Halacha but also awareness of contemporary affairs.
