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The US continues to transfix the world with its gun violence epidemic
As an Israeli, used to a young and dynamic political system, I’m sometimes at a disadvantage debating politics with Americans. Israel’s basic laws its equivalent of the Constitution are changed every other day. Alternative prime minister? Direct elections? Why not? We’ll change a basic law or two.
In America, where the Constitution is a quasi-sacred document, things are not so simple. So if 200 years ago someone put in a few vague words about a “well-regulated militia” in the Second Amendment, that means that today, in 2021, one can easily buy an assault rifle, or even print a gun on a home 3-D printer. Why? It’s in the Constitution.
It’s inauguration day, the day on which we enact the greatest ritual of American democracy: the transfer of power.
Between the restrictions necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic and the substantially heightened security imposed following the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration will be like none other before it. His predecessor, President Donald Trump, will not be in attendance, another break from the norm.
And yet the core routines will persist, including the newly-inaugurated president’s first address to the country as Commander-in-Chief. We asked some of our regular writers what they most wish to see in Biden’s inaugural speech; these are their answers.
Jewish Ledger
The Capitol under attack
By Shira Hanau
(JTA) – Heshy Tischler, the pro-Trump provocateur of Orthodox Brooklyn, wasn’t at the U.S. capitol when a mob stormed it Wednesday – but not because he didn’t want to be.
Tischler was one of a throng of Orthodox Jews who traveled down to D.C. to join mass protests of the election results Wednesday, Jan. 6. He had left the city before the protest turned into an insurrection that drove members of Congress and the vice president into hiding, and in which a woman was killed.
But that afternoon, unaware that his compatriots were now occupying the Senate chamber and its environs, he said that he, too, would like to take his complaint straight to the halls of Congress.
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