TRUMP / VANCE crony
George Tidmarsh, FDA drug division,
has resigned [ Nov. 3, 2025 ]
CRITICISM / ethical debate has been
raised over comments he made over a
drug tied to a former business associate.
NYTimes.com/2025/11/02/health/fda-drug-unit-chief.html
6th place : Joel Reichow, age 32
7th place : Charles Hicks
10th place : Joe Klecker.
Klecker is an Olympic-level
athlete for the U.S. (10k
qualifying runner at Tokyo
delayed-to-2021 games)
99-yr.-old
Nuremberg Trials Lawyer -
an American Prosecutor in the
international war crimes tribunals!
DOCUMENTARY Film
titled
Prosecuting Evil
The non-fiction feature film
won an Audience Award at the
2018 Toronto (Canada)
International Film Festival.
see AP Race Call: Jacob Frey incumbent
wins
minnesota-minneapolis-mayor-elected-rank-choice . . .
In the Minneapolis city MAYOR race
as well as the City Council ward races.
SEE:
Fox9.com/news/2025-minneapolis-city-election-whos-ballot-mayor-city-council
from Essay "God Demands Justice"
Abraham Joshua Heschel
There is an evil which most
of us condone and are even
guilty of: indifference to evil.
We remain neutral, impartial,
and not easily moved by the
wrongs done unto other people.
Indifference to evil is more
insidious than evil itself;
it is more universal, more
contagious, more dangerous.
A silent justification, it makes
possible an evil erupting as an
exception becoming the rule and
being in turn accepted. The prophets'
great contribution to humanity was the
discovery of the evil of indifference.
One may be decent and sinister, pious
and sinful. The prophet is a person
who suffers the harms done to others.
Wherever a crime is committed, it is
as if the prophet were the victim
and the prey. The prophet's angry
words cry. The wrath of God is
a lamentation. All prophecy is one
great exclamation: God is not
indifferent to evil! He is always
concerned. He is personally
affected by what man does to man.
He is a God of pathos!
a PLOUGH Spiritual Guide
Thunder in the Soul : To Be Known By God
Abraham Joshua Heschel
edited by Prof. Robert Erlewine,
Illinois Wesleyan University,
Bloomington, IL
Erlewine since 2021 is
Isaac Funk endowed professor
of Philosophy and is
Director of the
Center for Jewish Studies
from Thunder in the Soul (2021)
Plough Spiritual Guide SERIES
The beginning of faith is not a feeling
for the mystery of living or a sense
of awe, wonder, or fear. The root of
religion is the question of what to do
with the feeling for the mystery of living,
what to do with awe, wonder, or fear.
Religion, the end of isolation, begins
with a consciousness that something is
asked of us. It is in that tense,
eternal asking in which the soul is
caught and in which man's answer is
elicited.
Wonder is not a state of esthetic
enjoyment. Endless wonder is
endless tension, a situation in
which we are shocked at the inadequacy
of our awe, at the weakness of our
shock, as well as the State of being
asked the ultimate question.
Endless wonder unlocks an innate sense
of indebtedness. Within our awe there
is no place for self-assertion. Within
our awe we only know that all we own
we owe. The world consists, not of
things, but of tasks. Wonder is
the state our being asked. The
ineffable is a question addressed
to us.
All that is left to us is a choice ---
to answer or to refuse to answer. Yet
the more deeply we listen, the more
we become stripped of the arrogance
and callousness which alone would
enable us to refuse. We carry a
load of marvel, wishing to exchange
it for the simplicity of knowing
what to live for, a load which we
can never lay down nor continue to
carry not knowing where!
[pages 22 - 23]
ISBN 9780874863512
Abraham Joshua Heschel b. 1907 -
passed into eternity 1972
a singular figure in philosophy,
history, and engagement with one's
society and human/civil rights
