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Some personal news: I am part of the team relaunching
@NewYorkSun
this morning as a daily newspaper taking on the big boys, characterized by honesty, verve, and sanity. Join us.
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That Linda Sarsour speaks for Bernie and Bernie won’t speak to AIPAC tells you everything you need to know.
The Israeli people have the right to live in peace and security. So do the Palestinian people. I remain concerned about the platform AIPAC provides for leaders who express bigotry and oppose basic Palestinian rights. For that reason I will not attend their conference. 1/2
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Excellent news.
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Jews shouldn’t be sad about the Warren betrayal re:
@AIPAC
. They should be angry at the horrific damage being done by a fringe of our community to all of us, of all political stripes. It’s hard to build things, and too easy for fools to break them.
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Despite everything, the fact that there is a Jewish State whose elected leader is in Washington D.C. to meet the President of the United States as a fellow head of state is an absolute miracle. After 2,000 years, images like this still take some getting used to. How lucky we are.
My kind of Orthodox prime minister, releases a photo of himself with tefilin on at 10 am.
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Pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel politics have turbocharged an enormous surge in worldwide anti-Semitism, from London to L.A.
Makes you wonder about the justness of a cause that incubates and catalyzes such hate.
Was easier to name when it was tiki torches, wasn’t it?
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I wrote about Eli Valley,
@Stanford
and the Jews
@Mosaic
-
"Let me be as clear as I can: the images are indefensible in any context. They are not justifiable, and they are not explainable."
@StanfordDaily
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Every single American Jew should feel this for what it is: a punch in the gut, delivered without a single moment’s hesitation. This toxicity is what we have to fight with everything we have.
Tonight, Elizabeth Warren nodded along and smiled as a questioner slandered AIPAC as "an unholy alliance" of "Islamophobes," "anti-semites, and white nationalists" that perpetuates "bigotry"
Without blinking, Warren then agreed to boycott next year's AIPAC conference
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To be clear: I have no interest in cancelling
@elivalley
, just in speaking for those degraded by his images. If
@jvplive
+
@StanfordSJP
felt compelled to apologize for his cartoons, maybe they should've thought twice about inviting him.
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Jews face anti-Semitism when they don't socially distance, and get their masks ripped off when they do.
Its old logic: Jews are marxists and capitalists, power brokers and professional moochers, should go to Palestine and get out of Palestine. Scary to see in 2020.
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What an embarrassing failure of thinking and moral character from the
@thecrimson
editorial board. A complete abdication of critical thinking and common sense, and a twist of the knife for Jewish students and alumni.
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There are many strategies to fight anti-Semitism. Socialism isn’t one of them. My latest:
'Anti-capitalism, it turns out, is fertile soil for hatred of Jews. So it’s ironic to say the least that increasingly, many Jews are shrugging off this bloody history to argue the opposite: that only socialist anti-capitalism can solve anti-Semitism."
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It is so helpful to be reminded of what we have to fight against, with everything we’ve got.
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My take: Israel was right. "Would you allow an arsonist to measure your home, to determine just how might lighter fluid he would need to burn it to the ground?"
@jdforward
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I dove deep into the crisis around anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism at NYU Law, and report that the Biden Administration has a decision to make about whether the university continues to be a hostile environment for Jews.
Hint: recent events haven’t helped.
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I precisely think that they don’t care about Israelis who were murdered+ captured and and that they are indifferent to Jewish safety,
I know some Jews-perhaps many-will look at these folks + think they don't care about the Israelis who were murdered + captured, that they are indifferent to Jewish safety. It's not true. They care deeply. They just believe that Jewish safety depends on Palestinians being safe too
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My
@NewYorkSun
report from Berlin, on how Germany, which devised the Final Solution, is now showing Europe what it means to take seriously the threats to Jews.
Support for Israel, Berlin asserts, is now one of Germany's reasons for existence.
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Smiling w/
@ItayMilner
at an amazing event hosted by
@PamelaParesky
with
@bungarsargon
making the case for endless extension of empathy.
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Wonderful piece by
@MattiFriedman
on Zionism, socialism, public art, and a changing Israel: "The ideas went away, but the kindergartens are full."
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For
@jdforward
I wrote about Israel's dramatic and triumphant 2021, with a shoutout to
@newzionists
for continuing the fight with joy and verve:
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I don’t agree with
@sullydish
on Israel at all, and haven’t for years, but airing the dissents at the link below re: his Beinart interview and thoughtfully responding to them shows that he is still listening. It’s not nothing: it’s actually a lot.
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Read my
@NewYorkSun
interview with Ruth Wisse to learn the sound of a fierce, wise, and unbounded voice. We drank lemonade and talked about the Cold War, Edward Said, BDS, anti-Zionism, and lots more.
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For the
@NewYorkSun
I spoke to
@LHSummers
about inflation, campus culture, "the new orthodoxy as oppressive as McCarthyism," the war in Ukraine, and more.
I keep thinking about this line:"if we abuse our exorbitant privilege, we will cease to have it."
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Before Bernie uses “racist” a third time to describe pro-Israel Jews, I want him to tell this girl how he thinks she should protect herself, right here in the U.S.
My God.
“No one stood by me,” Paige said. “No one wanted to lose their friends.”
The principal, Earl Moore, recommended she worry less about friends at school and "find friends in her synagogue."
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There is a lot of pessimism these days about our country. But in the long arc of history, the fact that Georgia’s two senators could be a Jew and an African American is utterly remarkable.
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My latest for
@NewYorkSun
on a bombshell filing that alleges nearly *12,000* text messages, 2,000 calls, and overnights between Willis and Wade *before* they claim their romance began:
Perjury is now very much in the picture:
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More of my convo w/
@NatanSharansky
for
@NewYorkSun
here.
Especially relevant given a flight from Tel Aviv being pogromed in Russia- the past is hardly even past-
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The sheer faux-righteous nastiness of this is breathtaking.
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Thrilled to have been named a columnist for the
@jdforward
. I’ll be writing regularly about politics, culture, the Jewish world, and the global scene. Stay tuned. Thank you
@bungarsargon
and
@rudoren
!
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My latest: The Case Against Bernie
American Jews need a savior. It’s not Bernie Sanders. via
@jdforward
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For two thousand years we have waited for Steve Harvey to yell “Shalom, Israel” to inaugurate a Miss Universe held in Eilat. If you will it, it is no dream.
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My latest for the
@NewYorkSun
, on
@Stanford
and elite university discrimination against Jews:
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My latest on how
#JewishHarpersLetter
,
@newzionists
, and
@Chabad
point the way forward to being boldly and bravely Jewish.
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My
@NewYorkSun
interview with
@NatanSharansky
, on the war in Gaza, Jewish history, Putin's plans, campus madness, and what he wishes he could say to Sharon:
The "war will decide whether Israel survives as a Jewish and democratic state in the Middle East"
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For
@NewYorkSun
, an exclusive interview with the pres of Hebrew U, who called Harvard + Stanford "shockingly feeble" and "lighthouses that failed us" lacking in "minimum integrity" for equivocating on Hamas.
This is what courage looks like.
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Very excited to join my namesake
@thehoffather
for a radio conversation on the Abraham Accords, Trump, and the new Middle East. Listen live, 7:30 EST here:
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Just amazing and brave. The kind of thing people will study in the future to understand what happened this week.
⚡️Ukraine’s Zelensky posts a new video of himself and his team outside the presidential administration in Kyiv’s government quarter after rumors in Russian media that he’d fled. “We are here. We are in Kyiv. We are defending Ukraine.”
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What a beautiful read by
@sullydish
of
#UnorthodoxNetflix
: "She is caught between the worlds of modernity and tradition and wrestles agonizingly with both. She is an incarnation of the religious sensibility’s conflict with modern secularism."
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Make the right enemies. Write for your heroes, known and unknown. Complexity is overrated. Join the fray. My advice to college students and others on Israel and Anti-Semitism:
@mosaicmag
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Sat down w/
@tedcruz
for a hard hitting
@NewYorkSun
interview on the economy, Israel, Iran, 2024, and more.
Stay tuned-
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Our
@NewYorkSun
editorial:
"While Prince William will be the next sovereign, the princess, now ailing, will become queen and a linchpin. Catherine Middleton, whose future will be empurpled, was not born royal but has comported herself with majesty."
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My nearest and dearest
@bariweiss
writing about my hometown. Gatsby called it West Egg, but it’s a little Jerusalem on Long Island Sound.
In Great Neck’s Persian Jewish community social distancing is about as kosher as a double-bacon cheeseburger. That closeness is what makes the community special. And what now puts it—and other religious communities—in danger. My latest:
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Thrilled to be hosting this event in celebration of the life and legacy of the Rebbe for
@Chabad
. Tune in Monday!
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Great report from
@MJ_Koch
in
@NewYorkSun
on the antisemitism that has become endemic in the Ivy League:
A sophomore, Kim Nahari, recalls that when she told her professor she was from Israel, he said, “I need to ask you to leave the class.”
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Great from
@bariweiss
: “But as Bernie Sanders sells class rage...and Elizabeth Warren pushes a social progressivism so perfectly doctrinaire it seems tailored for five kids at Oberlin, Andrew Yang’s iconoclasm and optimism are refreshing.”
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Only in New York: after recording a program for Chabad, told my driver home that it was in honor of the anniversary of the Rebbe’s passing.
My driver: “which Rebbe?”
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My
@NewYorkSun
review of a stunning new show
@TheJewishMuseum
that gives Israelis the dignity of their suffering in a world that too often denies it.
"An ‘Israeli Guernica’ Bears Witness to October 7 at the Jewish Museum"
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I reviewed the stunning "Pompeii in Color" show at
@isawnyu
, and wrote about vanished cities and living art.
"The works of art that make “Pompeii” so compelling are also survivors, mute witnesses to a vanished world."
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Thank you
@mosaicmag
for selecting my piece on Socialism and anti-Semitism for
@jdforward
as an Editor’s Pick-
What socialists don’t get about anti-Semitism, and why they can’t be trusted to defeat it
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Our
@NewYorkSun
editorial on today's summit:
By going to the final resting place of “the Old Man,” as Israelis call Ben-Gurion, the Arab foreign ministers are acknowledging the very idea, and the success, of the political Zionism that inspirits Israel.
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For
@NewYorkSun
I looked into the possibility that the new J6 footage can upend hundreds of criminal prosecutions, including the one against the most memorable defendant of them all:
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My
@NewYorkSun
reporting on the astoundingly low Mar-a-Lago valuation made it to court today, in print.
Basically, the palm beach real estate mavens think the judge made a big mistake. Will it matter?
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Making the moral case against
@elivalley
is not the same as cancelling. It is precisely the opposite.
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My
@NewYorkSun
conversation with Alan Dershowitz was about, among other things the rage + heartbreak over Harvard and the Ivy League's betrayal of their Jewish students, abetted by faculty and administrators.
We discussed how to fight back.
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Thrilled to share the news that I’ll be teaching at
@nyuniversity
this fall as an Adjunct Assistant Professor
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For
@tabletmag
, I wrote about what Zionism means.
A clash of two world views, "one held by the cultural elite with impeccable credentials, and the other by a less prestigious and less fashionable set that has become something of a counterculture."
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My
@NewYorkSun
interview with a January 6 defendant who is appealing to the Supreme Court from behind bars:
"Lang tells the Sun, 'If we win this, it will clear the house' — meaning the jail — “and keep Donald Trump out of prison.”
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Brave and essential piece- "This is our new normal. On college campuses and in progressive circles across the country, it does not matter if you strongly oppose the right-wing leadership in Israel; if you are a Zionist, you are seen as the enemy."
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My take on Linda Sarsour at Stanford-
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Some personal news: very excited to be teaching (in person!) an interdisciplinary humanities course at
@nyuniversity
this spring: Public Intellectuals and the Crisis of Culture.
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For
@NewYorkSun
I wrote about secrets, the Constitution, Herman Melville, and Jack Smith's chances at spearing his white (or orange) whale:
"Could the demand the lawyers obtain clearance violate their clients’ Sixth Amendment right to counsel?"
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So powerful to see the German President speaking in the Jewish language in Jerusalem, the capital of the Jewish State, 75 years after the horrors of Auschwitz. Am Yisrael Chai.
"בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה ה' אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, שֶׁהֶחֱיָנוּ וְקִיְּמָנוּ וְהִגִיעָנוּ לַזְּמַן הַזֶּה", ונאמר אמן. בעברית צחה ברך אותנו היום נשיא גרמניה בטקס המרכזי "ביד ושם" וצמרמורת אחזה בכולנו.
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My latest for
@jdforward
is a different kind of piece: a howl of outrage over today's coup and how we got here:
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SCOOP: For
@NewYorkSun
I wrote about
@Ostrov_A
and
@The_ILF
's efforts to use the
@ICC
as a forum to hold Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority accountable for "rampant, wide-spread and systematic torture." More on the case below:
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The original tweet here is ugly in a way that punches you in the stomach, and I'm glad
@JGreenblattADL
called it out.
Daily reminder that the extreme right & radical left overlap like a Venn diagram around
#antisemitism
. It’s irresponsible & inappropriate for a progressive leader, or anyone, to tweet this. It's flippant & insulting to the mainstream Jewish community, which
@J_Insider
serves.
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It was a wild few days on the Trump/Israel/ Iran front, and was a pleasure to break it down on
@KVIseattle
. Have a listen!
Ari Hoffman faces his most challenging interview guest yet - Ari Hoffman!
Dr.
@AriHoffmanWrite
, an opinion columnist for
@jdforward
, joins
@thehoffather
to discuss their occasionally crossed identity, the Abraham Accords, and the new Middle East 🔊
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Our
@NewYorkSun
editorial on the lie about Israel that went around the world:
"It’s been nine centuries since the blood libel appeared as a concept, but rarely have we seen one as dangerous as the latest from Hamas"
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Our
@NewYorkSun
goodbye to a clairvoyant conservative with a solicitude for the role of religion.
"Sandra Day O’Connor, a Constitutional ‘Cowgirl,’ Rides Into the Sunset"
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What an incredible loss. He was one of the world’s greatest public intellectuals, a writer and thinker that comes around once in a generation. Nobody thought so elegantly and so well and did more to unite worlds with excellence and grace. May his memory be a blessing.
Baruch Dayan Ha’Emet. It with the deepest sadness that we regret to inform you that Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (HaRav Ya’akov Zvi ben David Arieh z’’l) passed away early this morning, Saturday 7th November 2020 (Shabbat Kodesh 20th MarCheshvan 5781).
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@NewYorkSun
editorial on Braverman, who found her voice as a Hamas truth-teller:
"So what might be next for the valiant Mrs. Braverman, who has lost her job but appears to have found her voice in standing up for Israel and, by extension, the West?"
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"This campaign against Rowling is as dangerous as it is absurd. The brutal stabbing of Salman Rushdie last summer is a forceful reminder of what can happen when writers are demonized."
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Proud to publish this necessary piece by
@Klmarcus
of the
@brandeiscenter
in the
@NewYorkSun
on the anti-Semitism crisis at NYU.
"Anti-Jewish conspiracy theory is casually spread at NYU," he writes about anti-Israel sentiment on campus.
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Thrilled to share my
@tikvahfund
podcast conversation with
@EinatWilf
about Zionism's past, present, and future. Einat is increasingly indispensable as a thinker and public voice.
…/podc…/tikvah-live/id1503377974…
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Our
@NewYorkSun
editorial on Harvard and its disappearing backbone.
Jews are being outmanned and outmaneuvered. The problem is not Jewish strength, but Jewish weakness.
"Mr. Elmendorf chose not to take a stand. Israel has no such luxury."
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Jewish memory is measured not in days, but in millennia. The repercussions of this will be enormous.
‘Kristallnacht in Lod': State of emergency as Arab mobs set synagogues on fire
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Very excited to receive the 2019 George and Charlotte Shultz Fellowhip in Modern Israel Studies. I’ll be writing about Israel’s Jewish democracy, supported by a grant from former Secretary of State Shultz and NYT Columnist
@tomfriedman
.
@Stanford
@StanfordLaw
@HillelStanford
.
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And it feels great. Join us!
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For
@NewYorkSun
, refusing to jump to conclusions. The pile on says more about the pilers on than the piled upon.
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A must read from
@bariweiss
on how things have gone so wrong and the young people who see things clearly enough to fight back.
American liberalism is in danger. A new ideology is rising to replace it—and it has dangerous implications for Jews. I’m very happy to be writing again for
@tabletmag
:
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This is bloviating ideology masquerading as profound thinking, full of loathing and contempt and signifying nothing and convincing no one. Just an embarrassing piece to publish.
We Jews are terrible at being a “nation.” We quickly become as stupid, violent and greedy as other nations. Swiftly we brought destruction and exile on ourselves. Only there, in exile, do we resume being a people that survives | Opinion
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To understand Israel, you need to understand its ongoing cultural and religious revolution.
I review
@rosnersdomain
's vital new book for
@mosaicmag
@tikvahfund
After Seventy Years, Israeli Judaism Is Settling In and Getting Comfortable -
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The details are just unbearable: "He was clutching the Grossman novel."
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My
@NewYorkSun
dispatch is on a dissent that could prove prophetic re: the seizure of Trump's Twitter/X account:
"Conservative Judges on D.C. Circuit, in a Rousing Dissent, Side With Trump and Musk Against Jack Smith"
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We live in unprecedented times, but we have inspiring precedents. Menachem Begin in the Gulag is one of them.
As Jews prepare for the first seder tomorrow night. Think of Menachem Begin in a Soviet Gulag. He rationed coffee to substitute for the four cups of wine and risked torture and death in order to observe Pesach in his cell.
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Excited to be an Emerging Leaders Fellow at the
@AviSchaeferFund
Leadership Retreat This summer
@Hartman_Inst
. Grateful and excited for the journey!
@shira_telushkin
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My latest, on a bewildering and clarifying 24 hours
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When antisemitism is so egregious
@Columbia
that the *White House* is forced to weigh in on the lunacy :
"Echoing the rhetoric of terrorist organizations, especially in the wake of the worst massacre committed against the Jewish people since the Holocaust, is despicable."
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1975: Zionism is Racism.
2022: Israel is Apartheid.
Not much changes, and everything stays the same.
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Our
@NewYorkSun
editorial on one of the most horrific days in Jewish history:
"There is a war to wage, a Jewish state to declare it, Jewish soldiers to fight it, and a Jewish people — and others — to pray to God that the sun will stand still over Zion."
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Vital from
@MaximDShrayer
in
@tabletmag
:
"If you indicated sympathy for the Jewish state, you opened yourself to rants, assaults and even calls for boycott. The hostility to Jews, especially those who are sympathetic to Israel and Zionism, is palpable."
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We have it first
@NewYorkSun
: a blockbuster article arguing that the rush to disqualify Trump on the basis of 14 A is riddled with "theoretical defects and other errors" that are "endemic."
DQ of Trump “is not a slam dunk, and is likely to backfire.”
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This is the reaction to the murder of Jews going to shul on Shabbat by someone who edits a magazine with “Jewish” in the title, and recently had a feature on…Shabbat.
Staggering.
Instead of linking today's terrible attack in Jerusalem to Holocaust Remembrance Day, which it has nothing to do with, you might connect it instead to the 30 Palestinians that have been killed by Israel just this month. This is a cycle of violence borne of Israeli apartheid.
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My
@NewYorkSun
dispatch on what should be a wild morning in Arkansas for the First Son, who is embroiled in a paternity case where nothing less than the Biden name is at stake-
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"This group in the new urban bohemia are the constituency for the new progressive left... they join the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and engage in purges and cancellations on Twitter and move to Brooklyn on allowances from their parents."
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Wonderful piece by
@ElliotKaufman6
on
@Chabad
, a model for 2021 spiritual success.
“It’s something called a neshama,” a soul, he explains with a laugh. “We’re dealing with things that are beyond what a Pew survey is going to pick up on.”
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That was one of the most wild things I have ever seen. The classic assault/battery/ Oscar win sequence.
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Great report from
@MJ_Koch
in
@NewYorkSun
on the protests that stole graduation:
"Columbia University is canceling its main commencement ceremony following weeks of disruptive and violent protests on campus over the war in Gaza."
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