l++++ Please contribute $18 for the 2018 Campaign to Elect JoelSolkoff to Congress By PayPal please contribute $18 to joel@joelsolkoff.com Home of Antaeus Mobility What a difference a year makes ++++ ++++ Defeat Rep. Tom Marino In September 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Marino to serve as the Director of […]
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In praise of Anna Eshoo, Professor Ford’s representative in Congress
Wikipedia Anna Georges Eshoo /ˈɛʃuː/ (born December 13, 1942) is the U.S. Representative from California’s 18th congressional district, serving since 1993. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district, numbered as the 14th District from 1993 to 2013 is based in the Silicon Valley, including the cities of Redwood City, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, and Palo Alto, as well as part of San Jose. She is […]
NYT Bombshell op-ed: I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration
Opinion I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations. Sept. 5, 2018 The Times today is taking the rare step of publishing an anonymous Op-Ed essay. […]
1964
++++ In 1964, I was a junior attending Cheltenham High School in Wyncotte, PA. In 2001, I returned. https://www.fastpeoplesearch.com/mr-joel-ezra-solkoff_id_G-2992191342688064713 ++++ ++++ In 1964, I studied the Prophet Jeremiah at Gratz Hebrew College in downtown Philadelphia. + +++ https://youtu.be/0xXkMNEQEWM 8888
Lady Gaga: Poker Face
Poker Face is the best song of our decade What decade are we in? Mum mum mum mah Mum mum mum mah Mum mum mum mah Mum mum mum mah Mum mum mum mah I wanna hold ’em like they do in Texas, please Fold ’em, let ’em hit me, raise it; baby, stay with […]
The glorious Hebrew calligraphy from the mystical city of Safed, Israel
ברחת הבית The Hebrew letters above the spiral read Bless the House. Brchat [bless] Habayit [the house]. Blessing the House has connotations described in the spiral calligraphy below. In the Beginning, Rashi mused, before God created the world, She created the Hebrew alphabet. The Hebrew alphabet created the world. The difference between Christians and Jews is that […]
“My daughter is two: Published in 1988 after recovering from Joanna’s Terrible Two[indeed] terrible
Joanna may understand Two, but I don’t and neither does her mother. “Terrible Two” is the expression Diana uses, over and over, and ours is mixed marriage–I complain; Diana doesn’t. Even so, the difficulties of parenting a two-year old hit Diana before it hit me. causing her to go as close to hopeless frustration as I’ve never seen her. frustration.
How I Celebrated My Seventieth Birthday in Segregated State College, PA
This is what a “wheel chair accessible” restaurant looks like in segregated State College PA. Video by Emily Hartsay Cafe Verve received an operating license from Walt Schneider, head of code for the PA Centre County Council of Governments. To receive the license, the restaurant was required to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. […]