The resistance to President Donald Trump’s celebration of the Sabbath in the semiquincentennial is partisan folly and denial of the importance of religion in U.S. history.
There are few things that better illustrate the hyper-partisanship currently prevailing in the American public square than the way many on the left are reacting to the planned celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
The fact that the person who will be presiding over the semiquincentennial festivities is President Donald Trump has cast a pall over everything being done to commemorate the birth of the American republic. Or at least it has for the many Americans who don’t merely oppose Trump, but regard him with such detestation to the point at which they are prepared to oppose just about anything he does or is associated with.
And that goes double for liberal Jews who are particularly annoyed that Trump has gone out of his way to include their community in the national shindig.
Shabbat 250