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AUGUST 12, 2021 | The Jewish Home OCTOBER 29, 2015 | The Jewish Home
Notable Quotes “Say What?!”
I’ll still chase a bargain, and I definitely won’t be paying £6.50 for a bacon roll at the golf club. - Paul Louise Drake, 47, of Scotland, in a TV interview, after winning approximately $7 million in the UK’s National Lottery
What would motivate a Hasidic rabbi and his followers to leave a Brooklyn enclave where they’ve lived for generations and establish a quickly growing community in Wimauma, Fla., a semi-rural area near Tampa Bay? The same reasons that have led to an unprecedented wave of Orthodox Jewish families moving to South Florida: education choice, low taxes and good governance. If you’re coming after the rights of parents in Florida? I’m standing in your way. If you’re trying to deny kids a proper in-person education, I’m gonna stand in your way and stand up for the kids in Florida. If you’re trying to restrict people and impose mandates and ruin their jobs and livelihood, if you are trying to lock people down, I am standing in your way. I am standing for the people of Florida. - Gov. Ron DeSantis responding to Pres. Biden’s criticism of his Covid response
– From a Wall Street Journal article titled, “Why Orthodox Jews Are Leaving Brooklyn for Florida”
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics ended yesterday, and the U.S. athletes brought home 39 gold medals, 41 silvers, 33 bronze, and four new variants. — Seth Meyers
Governor who?... That’s my response. -Pres. Biden when asked about his response to DeSantis
I’m not surprised that Biden doesn’t remember me. The question is what else has he forgotten? - Gov. DeSantis in response
By the way, Mr. Former President, my own 60th birthday is coming up in three years, and you, sir, are not … going to want to miss it. Please come. I’d be so honored if you came. I’ll scale me back to make room for you — and Michelle, obviously. — Stephen Colbert, host of a show which is supposed to be funny, openly begging Barak Obama to attend his upcoming birthday party
Well, last night was the closing ceremony for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics which, because of Covid, were actually held in 2021, which means it’s only three more years until the 2024 Olympics are postponed to 2027. – Seth Meyers
This is going to be safe. This is a sophisticated, vaccinated crowd. – The New York Times White House correspondent Annie Karni on CNN explaining why Obama’s mass-gathering birthday bash did not pose any Covid risks
