Shelly Friedland

This is how I feel about the efforts to stop demolition of the crumbling church on 86th & Amsterdam. We need housing, the developer can include a performance space. It's sad to lose this historic building but oh well.

Well at least they managed to mention Iranian civilians and Palestinians who don't have bomb shelters, but that basically makes it an F+ instead of just an F.

Yup, days after the government in Israel voted to criminalize non gender segregated worship at the Kotel. Like, sheesh, have some self respect folks.

Stick with us Reconstructionists! Or give us another try.

I read this on Ha'aretz, went back and forth between rage and sadness. Difficult reading but important.

Love the end of Radiohead's statement!

Dickensian names...

They lied to get in.

It's tempting to blame whoever let them in, but most people probably hear, "we are NYPD" and don't ask for proof. I hope CU will change procedures and require proper ID.

I will give him that, yes.

NJ person here too. I didn't understand how JFK was the first Catholic president, I thought all/most Christians were Catholic. This was based on the Italian and Irish families, who together with us Jews, were like 98% of the school/neighborhood. (Good bagels and good pizza.)

Yes, the weakest of the bunch.

Jack Schlossberg running for NY12 is similarly untalented, a lightweight trading on the family name, from my impression of him from a candidate forum.

On MSNow as well

Frank Bruni has a piece about how The Pitt (on HBO) is important viewing because it shows our fraying health care system. The comments from readers across the globe are uniform in expressing horror over what they see here.

Yes, he does. He spoke at my synagogue and began his remarjs by noting it, I assume so people wouldn't be wondering or distracted about it? I found him to be very charismatic, incidentally.

The sheer idiocy of the GOP arguments continues to amaze me. They repeatedly try to make analogies that fail basic logic tests. This one is similar to the argument that if we want ICE to identify themselves, why don't we want voter ID laws?

Ha, we played the theme from the Rockford Files, I recall. The MASH theme was popular as well, in the ancient days of the late 70s/early 80s.

I recommend him in Good Omens. Longish hair, black jeans, sunglasses.

Yes, lots of normie supposedly liberal Jews can swallow hard truths when delivered by Friedman that they otherwise refuse to consider.

And this is the guy on the verge of starting a war with Iran...

Listening to seasons 1 and 2 of Rachel Maddow's podcast Ultra gives a window into how this thread in US history keeps coming back.

Sadly, he is.

This is why we need to build, build, build as much as possible, and as quickly as possible (while being safe, of course) in the next few years. No BS litigation, no NIMBY nonsense, no holding up projects to haggle over the exact proper number of affordable units, etc.

We don’t do thrones.
We don’t take loyalty oaths.
We don’t clap for authoritarians.

We show up.
And are loud enough that no one mistakes our silence for consent.

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Visible resistance. Zero apologies.

Who Knows? You Might Just Start A Revolution!

He is so stupid it's mind boggling. Why do they interview him?

Some dog owners seem to stop picking it up, seem to think it melts in the snow or something silly like that. I even see it in the park, so pretty sure it's actually dog owners think they can avoid the task. (Makes us responsible dog owners look bad, besides being annoying.)

We Jews should not be playing the nonsense game simply because it's despicable and immoral. It coming back to bite us should not be required incentive.

We are the Nazis now...

I agree, they were cowardly and have no sense of the firm's prior values. Rifkind, Garrison, etc must be turning in their graves.

That's basically what I heard at the time (from inside) but Karp having negotiated alone, nothing in writing, does make me wonder if this issue was in the mix.