[Cicero]

TRUE TO our liberal traditions, the delegates built a house near the convention site for a homeless family.

Am I wrong to find this a bit bizarre? Sort of like a kid jumping up and down in the playground, shouting "Look how great I am"?

[Alouette]

There is a reform temple in Seattle that turned their temple grounds into an encampment for the homeless (dysfunctional bums, stoners, and winos). Of course none of the temple officers or the rabbi live in that neighborhood.

[goldstategop]

What that has to do with passing on Jewish values to future generations - let me know. It sounds like a symbolic feel-good liberal platitude to me. Nothing specifically Jewish in building a house for a homeless family. Its something any liberal group could have done.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[muawiyah]

The first time I read an article about that particular house I immediately thought of Rev. Jim Baker's "Kevin's House"