Rep. Ritchie Torres Gives Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Sermon at Central Synagogue NYC

Peloni: Great speech

Reflections from Rep. Ritchie Torres during Central Synagogue NYC’s MLK Shabbat service on January 12, 2024. Closed Captions available.

January 18, 2024 | 2 Comments »

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  1. And now for the other shoe:

    “Rep. Ritchie Torres, a progressive New York Democrat who is not Jewish and is known for his outspoken defense of Israel, said that closing off any prospect of a Palestinian state was unsustainable.

    “I am under no illusion that a two-state solution will happen in the immediate future but to assert that it should NEVER happen — that either Jews or Palestinians should never have self-determination — is morally wrong,” he said Friday on X, formerly Twitter, without directly naming Netanyahu.”

    https://www.jta.org/2024/01/19/politics/15-jewish-house-democrats-blast-netanyahu-for-rejecting-two-state-solution