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by NONA BLYTH CLOUD
The High Holy Days of Judaism begin with Erev Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year’s Eve, and conclude on Yom Kippur, the ‘Day of Atonement.’ Since the Jewish Calendar is based on the cycle of the Moon, the secular calendar dates of the High Holy Days are different every year, but they begin sometime between the first of September and early October. Instead of a Leap Day like the secular calendar, there is a Leap Month periodically to keep the calendar in sync with the seasons of the year.
This year, Yom Kippur begins tonight at sundown. So I thought that the poems of Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) would be appropriate, since one of them, now called “To Be A Jew,” has been included by the Reform synagogue movement of Judaism in their revised prayerbook since the 1940s. “To Be a Jew” appears under the heading, “Israel’s Mission” in the 1975 edition of Gates of Prayer.
Muriel Rukeyser was astonished when asked for permission to include her poem in the Reform prayerbook, but later said of its inclusion, “One feels that one has been absorbed into the line, and it’s very good.”
The poem is part of her Letter to the Front, a ten-part series of connected poems inspired by her experiences as a correspondent for London Life, on assignment to cover the ‘People’s Olympiad’ in Barcelona, which was organized as an international preemptive protest against the 1936 Berlin Olympics in Nazi Germany in August.
The People’s Olympiad never happened. Muriel Rukeyser arrived at the Spanish Border on July 17th, the day the Spanish Civil War broke out, so she spent five days covering the war instead. These experiences became one of the enduring wellsprings of her poetry.
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By ann summers
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Argument from fallacy is the formal fallacy of analyzing an argument and inferring that, since it contains a fallacy, its conclusion must be false.
Generalization from fictional evidence: Using a fake story to make a general point.
Whataboutism (also known as whataboutery) is a variant of the tu quoque logical fallacy that attempts to discredit an opponent’s position by charging them with hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving their argument, which is particularly associated with Soviet and Russian propaganda
Trump continues in his public comments to say very little about Russia since his strange behavior at the G20, among other events like squeezing out the US press coverage of the Russian visit to the Oval Office. Fortunately we know how involved he’s been with Russians and their money since at least the 1980s, and his Russophilic tendencies are more than obvious beyond his financial ties. It stands to reason that he appreciates the cultural warfare waged by the Soviets and their oligarchic successors, even to the claiming that hoaxes exist while deploying the claim as a hoax.
Millions of tweets were flying furiously in the final days leading up to the 2016 US presidential election. And in closely fought battleground states that would prove key to Donald Trump’s victory, they were more likely than elsewhere in America to be spreading links to fake news and hyper-politicized content from Russian sources and WikiLeaks, according to new research published Thursday by Oxford University.
Nationwide during this period, one polarizing story was typically shared on average for every one story produced by a professional news organization. However, fake news from Twitter reached higher concentrations than the national average in 27 states, 12 of which were swing states—including Pennsylvania, Florida and Michigan, where Trump won by slim margins.
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