November 15, 2019 “….keep the way of Hashem with charity and justice”   Vayeira 18:19

All of the bickering over immigration and impeachment and the Democratic primaries have tended to thrust into the background issues critical to a large cohort of our citizens. In a time of plenty, poverty still infests our urban centers and rural America. Our elderly, single-parent families, chronically unemployed, mentally ill, and working poor neighbors suffer food insecurity, homelessness, deteriorating schools and lack of access to health care. While tax reductions for corporations, increased defense spending and expanded Medicare utilization generated a deficit approaching a trillion dollars, our frugal leaders targeted the Affordable Care Act and imposed new restrictions on access to Medicaid, food stamps, and college loan forgiveness. Add to that the wars on public education and on community policing and we find ourselves in a society where the privileged flourish and too many or the rest of us continue to suffer. For that, Ezekiel taught, Sodom was destroyed.