By Ehud Would
It’s that time again. Election season.
Since at least Nixon’s tenure, it has become an obligatory ritual of Western statecraft for any ascendant politicians to make pilgrimage to ersatz Israel. The symbolic import of which is always punctuated by a visit to the so-called “Wailing Wall” at the Temple Mount.
Presidents and Prime Ministers no less than Princes and Kings there don the kippah, touch the limestone, and pray alongside Orthodox Jews thrusting their hips (shuckling, they call it) in blasphemous mock coitus with the Shekinah, the female essence of their god. Yes, really. Blasphemous as it is, Evangelicals have lately adopted this nomenclature as an alternate name for the Holy Spirit, but the word Shekinah appears nowhere in scripture. It is wholly a creation of the Talmud.

