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WASHINGTON To say that 2020 has been an eventful year in the nation’s capital is an understatement.
Amid a global pandemic, a bitter race for the presidency and protests over police brutality, news in Washington never let up. As the year winds to an end, let’s take a look back at the moments of most drama, controversy, shock and sadness that headlined an exhausting 2020 in D.C.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi tears up the president’s speech during the State of the Union
Following President Donald Trump’s impeachment by the U.S. House in December 2019, he was invited by Pelosi to give his State of the Union address on the House floor on Feb. 4.
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Those we lost in 2020: Remembering the rabbis, pioneers, innovators and family members December 28, 2020 11:46 am Clockwise from top left: Rabbi Dovid Feinstein, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Kirk Douglas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Catie Lazarus. (Getty Images; photo design by Grace Yagel)
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(JTA) There’s no way to tally all whom we lost in 2020, a year when we mourned even our ability to carry out time-tested rituals of grief.
Among those who died this year were some of the Jewish world’s most famous and influential pillars in a range of industries, realms of thought and areas of activism from the pioneer jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the moral thought leader Rabbi Jonathan Sacks to the Modern Orthodox rabbi Norman Lamm to the influential LGBTQ activist Larry Kramer.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Getty/Shannon Finney)
A library in LA’s renowned West Hollywood gayborhood is to be named in honour of the late Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
West Hollywood City Council voted 3-2 at a meeting on 21 December to recommend naming a newly-built library after the late civil rights advocate, who is remembered for championing the cause of constitutional protection from discrimination, and her strong support for LGBT+ rights.
Councilwoman Sepi Shyne said in a statement: “Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an icon for women, our LGBT+ community, for workers and every progressive value that West Hollywood holds.
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