"Ultra-Orthodox" Jew. Father. Conservative Republican. Happy Cynic. Comms, Columns, Teacher, Torah. Technically a Rabbi. Opinions my own – but usually correct.
Friday's hero - the construction worker who got in the face of the animal ripping down hostage posters in Queens:
"I'm just a regular guy who didn't like what I saw. It shouldn't be celebrated, what I did, it should be normal. Every one should react like that. It shouldn't be a…
It doesn't stop.
In the vicinity of Hunter College NYC, tearing down posters of kidnapped Jewish babies.
Watch how quickly these awful people try to don the mantle of victimhood, which they deny the actual victims of the savage massacre of Hamas.
A murderous attack on a synagogue is not about you, and it's not about politics.
It's about Jews and the people who have - for as long as we have existed - wanted to destroy all of us.
Any attempt to muddy those waters is disgusting and you deserve all the condemnation you get.
Members of Congress have a duty to respond to the President’s explicit attack today.
@IlhanMN
’s life is in danger. For our colleagues to be silent is to be complicit in the outright, dangerous targeting of a member of Congress.
We must speak out.
“First they came...”
This video of Bloomberg saying we should deny care to people once they're past a certain age (because it isn't worth it) is everything about him which is so awful.
Awful news being reported out of Los Angeles.
A Jewish man who was brutally beaten at a "Free Palestine" rally Sunday tragically succumbed to his injuries today.
Murdered, in the USA, by Hamas sympathizers, for being a Jew.
There's a video I'm sharing in the next tweet.
This is Toronto 2023.
"You're just thinking about some Jews"
Before she gets violent, and tries to kick the person videoing her tearing down the posters of teenaged hostages, she blames the victims for being kidnapped.
Rep from
@lufthansa
: “It was Jewish people who made the mess, Jewish people made the problem.”
Jewish customer: “Jewish people on the plane made a problem so all Jewish people are banned for the day?”
Rep: “Just from this flight.”
Vid from
@DansDeals
VIDEO!
Passenger: This is gruesome.
@Lufthansa
clerk: It would have been if you were African, if you were Polander.
Passenger: I was wearing a mask the entire time, why am I lumped in with them?
Clerk: It was one, everyone has to pay for a couple.
More of the same here - seems NYC has just too many of these.
86th & Madison, modern day holocaust denier says she's taking down the posters “because they're not real.”
You guys really don't get it, do you?
Disrupting events, blocking highways, yelling at people on streets, they aren't trying to change minds.
They are using the exact tactics of the murderous terrorists; they're going to make your lives miserable until you do what they want.
This is important to share.
The owner of the store which was targeted yesterday, whose wife was murdered, made sure his store was a stop for the local kids who were trick-or-treating.
Here he is distributing sweets.
It doesn't ever stop at posters, let's be very clear.
This time, the poster ripper starts taking wild hacks at the person calling him out.
In Los Angeles this already cost a Jewish life.
It's escalating quickly.
It starts with tearing down the signs of kidnapped kids being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza.
Try to stop it? It gets upgraded to full out assault.
And nothing ever happens to the perpetrators.
I don't want anyone to read this as a defense of Putin and/or Russia, but I feel like we've gotten to the point where criticizing Zelenskyy is like criticizing Fauci.
The more I see this kind of stuff the more I think this whole impeachment gambit might be less about Ukraine and Biden and more about tryin mg to delegitimize the Durham investigation because they are terrified of what it may uncover.
Subtext: there's a notion circulating in the fever swamps to the effect that Mifsud wasn't actually a Russian cutout, but a CIA asset (or something) sent to set up the Trump campaign. If Barr is chasing down stuff like that, we are in a very weird place.
Despite it all, Jewish life continues. Rabbi Rottenberg & the community celebrate a new Torah scroll, singing the words of Psalms 107:8-9 "Let them praise G-d for His goodness; His wondrous actions for mankind. That He satisfied the thirsty & He filled famished souls with good."
Well here’s a welcome surprise.
@benshapiro
speaks up, publicly calling out Candace Owens for her too cute by half anti-Semitism as “disgraceful.”
“It's not faux sophistication, it's ridiculous.”
Ep. 91 How does the government of Israel treat Christians? In the West, Christian leaders don’t seem interested in knowing the answer. They should be. Here’s the view of a pastor from Bethlehem.
"You can see why she gets targeted."
Yeah, that and the fact that she's a raving anti-Semite who can't go 48 hours without making another bigoted statement.
AOC is abetting anti-Semitism.
In this tweet she handwaves what Omar said and writes it off as thought *she's* a victim.
Rep. Omar, a survivor of war, is one of the most effective voices right now at cutting through the authoritarian foreign policy tendencies of this administration.
She nails it here. You can see why she gets targeted ⬇️
So basically the media is misinterpreting a call in which Mueller complained to Barr that the media was misinterpreting his letter to misinterpret the report?
.
@PressSec
Jen Psaki on Florida Gov. DeSantis' opposition to FDA decision limiting monoclonal antibody treatments: "Let's just take a step back here just to realize how crazy this is..."
Hi, rabbi here.
There's nothing about being a rabbi that gives you any more authority to opine on who is and isn't a white nationalist than someone who isn't.
“How could you say something like that?”
Easily. Just a year and a half ago, Tucker was singing an entirely different tune, calling for the government to ban TikTok.
Not *EVERYTHING* in life has to be about right or left, people. You guys have fractured this country so deeply that your gut drags you to making murder of Jews a political thing.
Please don't do that.
Extremely emotional moment for me here.
Singing Ani Maamin – the very same song Jews sang in the cattle cars on the way to the gas chambers.
The words proclaim belief in G-d that He can and will bring Moshiach and end all our suffering at any moment.
What I'm not used to is this constant need to make anti-Semitism a political issue.
I have news for you all. People have hated and wanted to kill Jews before the words "Democrat" or "Republican" were even invented.
It's now become a way to mock the Jew.
Street vendor at 80th and Broadway in NYC tears down pictures of children kidnapped by Hamas.
@nycHealthy
— do you grant licenses to people who commit hate crimes?
Plaster it with posters:
@yashar
Yes, and its still the biggest understatement of the century.
We've become a country where nobody in power is ever held to account when they fail us.
In spite of everything I still believe that America is that last remaining place in the world where people are good at heart and can unite around the idea that everyone ought to, and more or less does, agree that Jews don't deserve to be killed. But y'all are making that hard.
I don't have anything personally against Liz, but the difference between her and
@ChristinaPushaw
is the difference between old-school & losing GOP comms and the new gen and winning comms.
If Disney does weigh in on this, it's going to make it really difficult for DeSantis to sign off on. If they weigh in, pretty much no matter what, he will come out worse for it.
A father eulogizes two of his children at the same time, after they were tragically killed in yesterday's stampede.
The strength it takes to utter these words:
"The L-rd gave and the L-rd took; may the name of the L-rd be blessed."
(Iyov/Job 1:21)
So
@YouTube
&
@instagram
took this video off their platforms because they consider it “hate speech.”
Apparently it is okay to discriminate against visibly orthodox Jews, you just can't talk about it out loud.
My man doesn't know (or doesn't care) that the express *legal* reason why Trump wouldn't sit for an interview with Team Mueller was due to the fact that he is the President of the United States, which the whistleblower {checks notes} is not.
Republicans spent years talking policy, and Democrats (effectively) responded with ads showing Paul Ryan dumping Granny off the side off the cliff. Don't blame us for not trying tondo this anymore.
Amidst the tragedy, this part of the picture allows us a measure of hope.
The opposite of those pulling down the posters of hostages, a woman on the other side of the protest line stops what she's doing and recognizes the shared humanity and another person in need.
A) Hospitals intubated patients earlier than medically needed, because they (wrongly) thought it would control spread.
B) Health-care workers avoided COVID patients, denying them care they needed & sedating them more than they should have.
My grandfather - whom I loved deeply and whose memory I honored by naming my firstborn after him - saw his wife and four children killed in front of his eyes a decade before he heard the word "Democrat" or "Republican."
You think he'd understand this as a political thing?
I have to say this stuff from Trump really hurt more than I thought it would.
You get a visceral, physical reaction in your gut when someone says “Go back to your country.”
It makes your nerves tingle, your face hot. It makes you enraged, depressed.
Nobody deserves this shit.
I see this thread and I get incensed.
Do you understand how Orthodox Jews have been treated in New York for wanting to do nothing but be left alone and allowed to follow their religion?
We were even told prayer was not allowed because of COVID.
But this? This is okay?
There are ~16 million households with children between the ages of 6-11 in the US. There are ~130 million households.
So, yeah. 1 of 10ish sounds right.
4/ Since the usual bad faith actors are now depicting this as me telling the NYPost to bow to twitter to delete the tweets, i'm clearly not saying that -- i'm saying they can delete them *then tweet them out again.*
I agree twitter enforcing defunct rules makes no sense. Zero.
This is an incredibly stupid and bad faith argument. The entire left (& media, but I repeat myself) has been blaming Trump for the shootings ever since they happened, saying he feeds fair & racism. Obama, ever the "statesman," took a swipe at Trump while acting "above the fray."
Send street cops to publicly interrogate the city's three Hasidic electeds.
Sure.
I'm sure you'd do this to any other Councilman, Assemblyman, and State Senator.