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The "Jewish Rally for Abortion Justice" is set to take place today in Washington, D.C. Led by the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), the list of rally sponsors includes the ADL, Hadassah, Hillel and several Jewish Community Centers and Jewish Community Relations Council chapters. Rabbinic, cantorial and synagogue associations of all major Jewish-American denominations will be represented, with one glaring exception: those of the Orthodox.

The stated goal of the rally is to proclaim that "Abortion access is a Jewish value, plain and simple." Its real goal, however, is to gaslight broad swaths of the country, and to provide cover for secularist elites. The rally's organizers, sponsors and supporters wish to render the killing of a fetus a religious liberty "right" and, at the same time, promote the dangerous fiction that a rational pro-life position violates the "separation of church and state."

In situations where termination of pregnancy is necessary to save the mother's life, it would be offensive to claim that such a basic humanitarian concern is uniquely tied to a particular religion. Is chemotherapy a "Jewish value?" What about access to X-rays or organ transplants? The panoply of sponsors, then, are not addressing the actual underlying debate. They are rallying to demand, in the name of religion, elective feticide until the moment of birth.

According to a didactic tale, a well-meaning person once asked a rabbi, "If you were to bless a pig, would that make the animal kosher?" "No," the rabbi replied, "but it would make me trayf (not kosher)!" Jewish values are not determined by an alphabet soup of Jewish organizations, but by an immutable and transcendent code of Jewish spirituality, ethics and law. And that Jewish code is clear that life and the soul precede birth. In Genesis, for example, Rebecca is told that her unborn twins have distinct natures (25:23). In the Prophets, G-d informs Jeremiah, "Before I placed you in the womb I knew you, before you left the uterus I sanctified you, I appointed you a prophet to the nations" (1:5).

Moreover, Jewish tradition insists upon adherence to the Oral Law, in which the Mishnah provides moral instruction that a mother must be saved even at the expense of her child, if necessary, "because her life precedes his life" (Ohalos 7:6). Read that again, because the NCJW, the lead sponsor of the rally, refers to this Mishnah without quoting its explicit reference to the "life" of the fetus. Inexplicably, in the same paragraph, NCJW claims that, under Jewish law, a fetus is "not yet having [a] life of its own."

This is shocking, and shameful. Still worse, other major Jewish organizations and even "rabbinic" groups signed on as rally sponsors, despite the NCJW's perversion of an obvious statement in Jewish law.

Every citizen has a democratic right to advocate a public policy position, but it is wrong to misuse or mistakenly invoke the First Amendment. Unfortunately, many American Jews have so utterly lost sight of that which Judaism holds dear that they have elevated their own progressive agenda to the level of faith, likely to fill a resulting spiritual void. This rally, led by those who cherry-pick, decontextualize and distort Jewish law to support their position, will draw from those ranks. As mentioned earlier, no Orthodox organization will be at the rally.

This dichotomy between authentic Judaism and idolization of the progressive platform manifests itself in other ways, as well. In several weeks, the Jewish world will celebrate the 3,334th anniversary of G-d's giving of the Torah to Moses on Mount Sinai. Jews who faithfully adhere to the Mishnah's teachings will pray in synagogues around the world, celebrating what we believe to be G-d's greatest gift. Yet, even conceding that I have no special talent for predicting the future, it is quite certain that not 5% of the attendees at the "Jewish Rally for Abortion Justice" will fully observe this annual festival of Shavuot.

Even holding faith aside for a moment, common sense should also have its say. Visit a neonatal ICU, and you will meet babies who cannot yet breathe on their own or ingest nutrients. Yet they are learning to recognize and find comfort in familiar voices, music and their own thumbs. Doctors and nurses work around the clock to ensure that these babies go on to live normal lives. It is utterly nonsensical to argue that a fetus, in precisely the same situation during a routine pregnancy, is not alive.

The transparent and patently dishonest message of the "Jewish Rally for Abortion Justice" is that valuing life is neither a matter of common sense nor an American principle, but rather a parochially Christian tenetand, further, a tenet that constitutes a violation of the much-ballyhooed "separation of church and state." Balderdash. In fact, the sanctity of life and the importance of traditional morality both come directly from the Hebrew Bible. Thus, all Americans, especially of the Abrahamic religions, should reject the progressives' position, predicated as it is upon the absurd notion that it is somehow unconstitutional for the moral values of the citizenry to be reflected in the laws that govern our society.

Rabbi Yaakov Menken is managing director of the Coalition for Jewish Values, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that represents over 2,000 rabbis in issues of American public policy. Follow him on Twitter: @ymenken.

The views expressed in this article are the writer's own.

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FOX business host shreds the Biden administration over the state of the economy on 'Kudlow.'

So, we begin tonight with the front page of the New York Post. That kind of says it all.

Take a look "Joe's Train Wreck" "gas hits a brutal $6 a gallon, border crisis gets worse, ministry of truth collapses, market drops 1,164 points worst day in two years, baby formula disaster."

The only thing the Post missed was that the cavalry is comingbecause of Mr. Biden's train wreck and I want to generalize about this train wreck because in policy terms, it shows the complete breakdown and failure of the radical Left, progressive agenda or, as Newt Gingrich calls it, "big government socialism."

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Texas Republican shreds Biden's policies on 'Kudlow.'

In a few moments, I am going to talk to Sen. Ted Cruz about the failure of radical progressivism, wherever it has been tried and at whatever point in history it has been tried total failure.

Take the Ministry of Truth fiasco another attempt by Biden's statism to control speech. Disagreement becomes misinformation. That's right, out of the old Soviet Union ortoday's China, or Venezuela or Cuba. That's whattheydo. That's not what America does.

Now, this silly little Mary Poppins lefty person, Nina Jankowicz, made it a laughingstock, but we should not lose track of a much more important point that the Biden administration was trying to control free speech. Specifically, they were trying to control free speech that disagreed with their ideological viewpoints. That's radical progressivism.

Fortunately, this specific attempt to control free speech is now dead on arrival, but it is not dead in the minds of the ideologues who populate the Biden administration. Somewhere, some place, they're going to try to do this again.

The baby formula disaster is a perfect example of progressive over-regulation and of course, progressive obsession with blaming business.

The open border crisis is also a function of the progressive disregard for the rule of law and national sovereignty. It is the direct opposite of "America First." It is the notion that we're all part of one, big progressive global family and there's no need for borders because instead of national interest, we have something called "world interest."

MAJORITY OF CEOS PREPARING FOR A RECESSION AS SKY-HIGH INFLATION PERSISTS

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade rips the Biden admin over the state of the economy on 'Kudlow.'

It's utter nonsense, as ordinary working folks around the country who are concerned about the drug epidemic, terrorism, the crime wave and sex trafficking will tell you.

The stock market smack-down is a clear recession signal that I will talk about later in the show.

Record gasoline prices are, frankly, just what the Bidens really want. No matter what they may say, they like $100 crude oil. They like record diesel fuel. They don't care about truckers and their trucks. They don't care about business or consumer costs. They don't care about pipeline safety. They're not interested in our relations with oil-rich Canada.

For the first time in recent memory, they actually used government intervention to cancel a private sector project that was already under construction.

High fossil fuel prices supposedly make Green New Deal renewables more attractive in their ideological mindset. The reality is renewables are only 3% of our power, while fossil fuels are 80% as ordinary Americans are painfully aware once again.

Wages are going up, but inflation is going up faster. Biden progressives are completely in denial about the inflationism of rapid government spending, borrowing and money printing.

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The only way to whip inflation is a complete policy reset i.e., abandoning the progressive agenda. They won't do it. That's why the GOP should be advancing a pro-growth, balanced budget plan and be ready to hit the ground running next January after the Congress changes hands and this little, historical sliver of a temporary progressive interlude comes to an end.

Save America, balance the budget. Yes, the cavalry is coming.

This article is adapted from Larry Kudlow's opening commentary on the May 19, 2022, edition of "Kudlow."

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PITTSBURGH John Fetterman, the Pennsylvania lieutenant governor whose shorts- and scowl-wearing persona made him something of a political celebrity, has won the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate.

Fetterman, who entered the race as the Democratic front-runner early last year and only grew his advantage over time, had more than 54% of the total expected votes as of Wednesday morning, more than double his closest competitor, U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb, who had less than 25%.

He will face the winner of a Republican primary that was still too early to call Wednesday, in one of the most critical Senate races in the country. In that GOP primary, celebrity surgeon Mehmet Oz held a narrow lead over former hedge fund CEO David McCormick. Conservative commentator Kathy Barnette, after a late surge in the race that shocked Republican insiders, was trailing McCormick and Oz.

As returns rolled in, Fetterman, 52, was in a Lancaster hospital, where he was recovering from a stroke he suffered just four days before the primary. His campaign said Tuesday that he underwent a procedure to get a pacemaker to regulate his heart rate.

The campaign, which didnt respond to several requests to interview Fettermans doctors, has said doctors reversed the stroke in time to prevent any cognitive damage, and that hes expected to make a full recovery. Fetterman voted via emergency absentee ballot Tuesday and is expected to remain in the hospital for several days.

Without him, a crowd of supporters and his wife Gisele celebrated at an election-night rally at an airport hotel here.

This race were running, its a race for the future of every community across Pennsylvania, she said. For every small town, for every person who calls those small towns home and for every person whos considered leaving because they didnt see enough opportunities. Its a race for a better Pennsylvania and for a better country.

The crowd erupted in cheers as MSNBC called the race for Fetterman shortly before 9 p.m. They waved yellow Fetterman towels in the air and jumped up and down.

I have goose bumps right now, said Phil Heasley, 31, of Butler, a Fetterman campaign volunteer. This is someone who always showed up for us, and now its our time to show up for him. Itd be great if he were here, but were gonna raise the roof as if he was.

The below graphic shows the most recent results reported. It is updated in real time.

Fetterman appeared on the big screen briefly from the hospital, saying simply: Thank you so much for everything. From my heart, thank you for everything.

How cute is he? Gisele Fetterman asked after the cameo.

She spoke about her husbands unconventional style, which attracted so many to his campaign.

Its not just that John looks nothing like a politician, she said. Its because John doesnt act like one. At heart, hes still that hardworking, scrappy, small-town mayor.

Gisele Fetterman later told reporters her husbands health shouldnt be an issue in the general election.

Anyone who would imply that he would be unfit to serve because of this procedure is also... offending millions of Americans who have pacemakers, she said.

And its almost ableist, you know? I think hes going to have a full, thriving life. Hes going to be able to do the same work as anyone else, she said. But the reality is, families come with health scares. That is a very American thing. What hes gonna want to fight for is to make sure that everyone would have access to the same care that he was able to receive.

Fettermans unconventional style helped propel his victory and represents something of a departure from years of Democratic voters in Pennsylvania nominating more centrist candidates. Lamb, who campaigned as a moderate Democrat in the mold of President Joe Biden, was in second-place Wednesday. State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta had less than 10% of the total expected vote.

The victory makes Fetterman the Democratic standard-bearer in one of the most hotly contested races in the country, which could determine control of the chamber. The incumbent Republican, Sen. Pat Toomey, isnt seeking reelection.

Fetterman began drawing national notice as mayor of Braddock, a small Rust Belt town outside Pittsburgh. He ran an unsuccessful campaign for Senate in 2016, and then beat a Democratic incumbent in the 2018 race for lieutenant governor.

His path to the nomination zigzagged through Trump Country, where hes tried to attract disaffected rural Democrats with a hybrid populist-progressive appeal. He spent far less time campaigning in the populous Philadelphia region, home to a huge proportion of the states Democratic voters though he used a formidable fund-raising advantage to blanket the airwaves there.

Fetterman had strikingly little support among elected Democrats in the state for his primary campaign including in the state Senate chamber he presides over though he is sure to enjoy a largely united Democratic Party in a race thats critical to U.S. Senate control.

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Lamb, who didnt appear at his election-night party to deliver remarks, conceded in a statement late Tuesday night.

I entered this campaign knowing it would be tough, but I believed Democratic voters in Pennsylvania deserved a primary campaign with a real debate focused on the issues so that we win in November, Lamb said. Today, voters made it clear that John Fetterman is their choice to carry that effort forward.

Lamb said he respects that decision, congratulated Fetterman, and wished him a speedy recovery from his stroke.

Lamb said hed do everything I can to help Democrats win in the general election.

Our entire democracy is on the line in November, he said. Democrats need to be unequivocally united in our defense of this democracy, and we will be. Johns vote in the Senate is essential to protect this democracy, and he will have my vote in November.

Lamb had the backing of many elected Democrats in the state and argued he had the left-of-center profile that would appeal to the widest range of voters in a general election. But Lambs campaign struggled to raise money or excite a critical mass of voters, and national Democrats, who had anointed chosen candidates in previous Senate races, largely stayed on the sidelines this time. A super PAC organized to support Lamb had little impact after raising much less than its $8 million goal.

And Lambs own campaign largely faded in its final weeks, not announcing many campaign events.

Kenyatta, who ran on his working-class background and the historic nature of his campaign he would have been the first openly gay Black man in the Senate garnered some passionate support despite meager resources. But with far less money than even Lamb, he never established himself as a top-tier candidate.

Kenyatta addressed his supporters Tuesday night in North Philadelphia with a triumphant tone, touting the milestones achieved, including the first time an openly gay person of color ran for Senate.

Each time one of us stands up, it inspires another person to stand up as well, Kenyatta said, encouraging people to run for office. Each one of us adds pressure to a status quo.

Kenyatta said he called Fetterman committing his support and asked those in the room to do the same.

Campaign staffers and members of the Working Families Party, including City Councilmember Kendra Brooks, filled the room.

Melvin Calhoun, 60, said he was happy with Kenyattas campaign.

Im not mad, he said. Im going to keep following his career.

Alex Khalil, a Jenkintown Borough Council member and the only woman in the race, ran on a shoestring budget and never broke through.

Fetterman had a cash advantage from the start, with high name-ID from two statewide campaigns and an impressive small-dollar fund-raising operation like the one that powered Bernie Sanders presidential campaigns. Fetterman had 200,000 individual donors by the end of the primary and a loyal fan base as he traveled the state.

Hell run in the general election partly on his record as lieutenant governor, a largely ceremonial job but one that includes leading the Board of Pardons, where pardons and commutations of life sentences greatly increased during his tenure. Hell also likely tout his time as mayor of Braddock, where violence in the small town of 2,000 decreased on his watch.

But his main pitch will likely be the one he made to primary voters that he has a populist, outsider appeal, is no friend to the political establishment, and will unapologetically fight for Democratic values.

Republicans have already signaled that theyll look to paint him as being too liberal on issues like abortion, health care, and criminal justice.

And a 2013 incident that has loomed over his campaign, in which he held at gunpoint a Black jogger whom he wrongly suspected of a shooting, is almost certain to resurface in the general election. His primary opponents frequently brought up the incident and questioned whether it would impact his ability to turn out Black and progressive voters in the fall.

It proved to be a nonissue for Democratic primary voters.

So did his eleventh-hour stroke.

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Some political analysts say recent progressive candidate success is a sign the Texas Democratic party is moving left.

AUSTIN, Texas Texas is poised to send the most liberal Democrat in state history to Congress. That progressive member will be representing San Antonio. Two other progressive candidates are in the run-offs.

Some political analysts say it's a sign the Texas Democratic party is moving left.

After winning the Democratic nomination for Congressional District 35, which covers the I-35 corridor from San Antonio to Austin, Greg Casar is forecast to win this heavily Democratic district in November. He brings a very liberal agenda from this conservative state.

"There's so many families working people that believe in a $15 an hour minimum wage, believe that we should not have crushing student debt holding back our young people, believe that we should have free health care as a human right," said Casar.

As an Austin city councilmember Casar voted to defund the police.

"I voted and proudly voted to say, you know what? Let's take a pause on some of our police classes and reform that academy," said Casar.

Two progressive candidates are in congressional run-offs as the country to looks to Texas to see if the Democratic party is changing.

"In our recent UT Texas Politics Project Poll, we ask Democrats whether they think the Democratic party is liberal enough, not liberal enough or too liberal. The most frequent response that you get from the youngest cohort of voters is not liberal enough," said Jim Henson with the UT Texas Politics Project.

"We're going to see more candidates like Greg Casar and other, again, more grassroots progressive movement of candidates emerge and become a louder voice in the party," said Henson.

Casar's progressive policies earned the endorsement of Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who is trying to reshape the Democratic party. AOC campaigned here for Casar and Jessica Cisneros.

Cisneros says the endorsement helped her get into the May 24th run-off against nine term Congressman Henry Cuellar.

"I think it's definitely helping in terms of anything that can help raise awareness about what kind of work we're doing and what kind of policies we're fighting for here in South Texas. We're fighting for funding education and health care. Reproductive rights falls squarely under health care," said Cisneros.

Cuellar has the support of Democratic leaders like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Whip James Clyburn who campaigned here for him. Cuellar he says the polices of AOC don't represent his district which reaches from east San Antonio to Laredo and further south along the border.

"If you look at the progressives, even my opponent, I don't think Hispanics support defund the police. You know, Hispanics generally are conservative in nature and to come in with this far left type of progressive ideas, this is not what South Texas is looking for," said Cuellar.

The redrawn congressional election maps make most districts less competitive in the general election. Political analysts say that means we'll see more candidates from the far left and far right in the primaries and a shift from moderate to progressive here in Texas.

"If you look at the attitudes of people who identify as Texas Democrats, the share of people who identify as liberal is definitely increasing and has increased over the past decade as the Texas party, slowly and in a lot of ways, very slowly comes to look more and more like the national Democratic party," said Henson.

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During a rally in support of U.S. House candidate Summer Lee on Thursday, Sen. Bernie Sanders called out super PACs bankrolled by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and billionaire donors for spending big to crush progressives in Pennsylvania and elsewhere across the country, efforts that the Vermont senator decried as pathetic and corrosive to democracy.

If they are successful, they will carry this into November, Sanders warned at the event in Pittsburgh, which was held days before the May 17 Democratic primary in Pennsylvanias 12th Congressional District. They have billions of dollars at their disposal.

We need a strong progressive like Summer in the Congress, Sanders added. But honestly it is even more important that we tell these billionaires that we will not allow them to buy elections and control this democracy.

In recent weeks, the United Democracy Project (UDP) a super PAC that AIPAC founded late last year has spent more than $2 million attacking Lee or boosting her primary opponent Steve Irwin, a corporate lawyer and former Republican congressional staffer.

Billionaire Haim Saban, a longtime AIPAC supporter, is UDPs biggest individual donor.

Democratic Majority for Israel a super PAC with close ties to AIPAC has also been spending in support of Irwin fresh off its success in Ohios 11th Congressional District, where the group helped defeat progressive champion Nina Turner earlier this month.

These ads, paid for by AIPAC, are attacking Summer because shes not a loyal enough Democrat,' Sanders said Thursday, referring to a recent 30-second spot by UDP highlighting Lees past criticism of the Democratic Party. But what you should know is that this organization is funding over 100 Republican candidates.

So here you have a super PAC saying shes not a loyal Democrat while theyre endorsing over 100 Republicans, including many who even refuse to acknowledge that Joe Biden won the election, the Vermont senator continued. Talk about hypocrisy. Talk about a corrupt political system. And that is why Summer and so many of us are going to do everything that we can to put these super PACs out of business by overturning Citizens United.

Lee, too, slammed the special interests that are pouring money into Pennsylvanias 12th District in an attempt to undermine her campaign, which includes a platform of Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and tuition-free public colleges and universities.

When people attack you or when they come for you, you must be doing something right, Lee, a current member of the Pennsylvania State House, said in a fiery speech to the crowd of supporters gathered in Pittsburgh Thursday night. But I want to be clear in this moment: Its not me theyre attacking Theyre worried about you. If they were in this room right now, they would not be able to stare us in the eyes.

If you are somebody in this country who cares about people, why would you want to stand in the way of healthcare for everybody? Lee continued. If you care about this country and you care about our party the way they say, why would they stand in the way of clean air and water? How dare they get in the way of us fighting for every worker to have a living wage and a union and paid sick and family leave.

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