Josh Feigelson (he/him, vaxxed)

Don't forget the best healthcare in America.

I'm trying to imagine what would happen if a political party passed a bill to take Medicare from millions of people. It's unthinkable.

Why does changing the last two letters from "re" to "id" make it politically possible to do this?

There's one senator history remembers from this vote.

(He's in the picture.)

Today, a few Republican senators have the chance to be in his league. Here's praying they rise to the occasion.

Once we rise, we do not descend: A Jewish call for immigration justice, cli

I'm signed up and hope you'll come too. Grateful to friends and colleagues who are organizing this.

events.zoom.us/ev/AiiUdOEbq...

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

Hard-hitting stuff. Maybe they want to ask questions about the United States caving to Russia, or surrending our government to Elon Musk. Please report real news.

If that's how he threatens people in public, imagine how he does so in private. Among the reasons I called my rep today to tell her not to vote yes on any CR. This GOP simply cannot be trusted, even if they say they are going to change their behavior. Their word is worthless. Slava Ukraini.

Singalong goes without saying!

M-F 12:30 ET/9:30 PT
www.jewishspirituality.org/get-started/...

How can the United States call Hamas evil (true) when we're bowing down before Putin?

YouTube video by Eyewitness News WTVO WQRF (MyStateline) Pritzker invokes specter of Nazi Germany in rebuke of Trump administration

Proud citizen of Skokie, Illinois here.
I'm also a Jew.
This is strong stuff. Good.

6 hostages to be freed Sat.; Hamas says bodies of Bibas mom, kids set for Thurs. return Family of Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas 'in turmoil' over Hamas announcement, has not received Israeli confirmation; only 3 living hostages were to go free this week, but Hamas will instead release all ...

Not yet from reliable narrators. www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-to-rel...

If, God forbid, our worst fears are confirmed this week, may the Holy One bind them up in the bonds of the living, may Yarden be comforted among the mourners, and may their senseless deaths lead, somehow, to a redemptive future.

I don't condone the language of vengeance I see being invoked in connection with these events, but I do understand where it's coming from. All the stories of the victims of October 7 are horrible and terrible, yet this one touches a particularly deep chord of Jewish collective memory.

So many people I know have been praying for their safe return--and so many hearts are shattered at the news that, barring some kind of miracle, it seems our prayers will, as too many other times in our people's history, go unanswered.

For many Jews I know, the story of Shiri and her sons has taken on particular significance over the last 500 days: a case study in the the evil and depravity of Hamas, an all-too-vivid reminder of past Jewish traumas.

Their husband/father, Yarden, was returned alive earlier this month.

For those who may not have followed this as closely: It appears that Israel will receive the bodies of Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir Bibas--a mother and her two young sons (ages 4 years and 9 months, respectively) who were kidnapped and taken to Gaza during the October 7 attack/massacre.

Talking to strangers is a way of claiming one’s political majority and, with it, a presidential ease and sense of freedom.

~ Danielle S. Allen, Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship Since Brown v. Board of Education (University of Chicago Press, 2004)

The more fearful we citizens are of speaking to strangers, the more we are docile children and not prospective presidents; the greater the distance between the president and us, the more we are subjects, not citizens.

At one end of the spectrum of styles of democratic citizenship cowers the four-year-old in insecure isolation; at the other, stands the president, strong and self-confident.

Presidents greet everyone and look all citizens in the eye. This is not merely because they are always campaigning, but because they have achieved the fullest possible political maturity. Their ease with strangers expresses a sense of freedom and empowerment.

If the experience of the most powerful citizen in the United States is any guide, talking to strangers is empowering; the president is among the few citizens for whom the polity holds no intimidating strangers.

‘Don’t talk to strangers!’ That is a lesson for four-year-olds. Eyes that drop to the ground when they bump up against a stranger’s gaze belong to those still in their political minority.

This, on the other hand, is something to be angry about.

Played over Shabbat and it different, especially knowing that some of this infrastructure is being dismantled as we speak.

Quarantine Specialist
Contingency Planner
Researcher
Scientist
Government Grant

Holocaust survivor pities anti-Semites who ‘waste life’ hating Edith Eger refuses to let the horrors she experienced at Auschwitz define her, says she hopes to help lead others 'from darkness to light, from victimization to empowerment'

On topic:

Something I realized tonight, and which I want to encourage us all to remember: I pity Trump and Musk and all these nogoodniks. It must be terrible to have so little at your core that all that can satisfy you is money and power. What a pathetic life to lead.