Rabbi Mike Rothbaum

The horror in Gaza is a catastrophe for Jews — this Tisha B'av must be a reckoning Tisha B'av, which begins Saturday night, commemorates catastrophes that have befallen Jews. But this year, we are victimizers, not victims.

“Tisha B’Av must be different this year. It cannot focus exclusively on the misfortune that has befallen us. It must address the staggering pain we have inflicted on others.” forward.com/opinion/7597...

Times of Israel headline: Minister says Israel racing ahead to wipe out Gaza, will make it Jewish. Photo: Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu smiling while walking past an Israeli flag banner

Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu says Israel is advancing the destruction of Gaza, and that the Strip will be made totally Jewish. “The government is racing ahead for Gaza to be wiped out,” Eliyahu tells Haredi radio station Kol Barama. “Thank God, we are wiping out this evil. We are pushing this population that has been educated on Mein Kampf.” Eliyahu says Gaza will be cleared for Jewish settlement, but says Jewish towns won’t be “fenced in inside cantons.” “All Gaza will be Jewish,” he says, though he clarifies that Arabs who are loyal to Israel will be tolerated. “We aren’t racists,” the far-right Otzma Yehudit politician adds. Eliyahu also denies that Gazans are not getting enough food, calling it a campaign against Israel, but notes that we are at war and trying to kill “these monsters.” “There’s no hunger in Gaza,” he says. “But we don’t need to be concerned with hunger in the Strip. Let the world worry about it.”

How will we explain this to our children?

When they ask what we did when it happened, what will we say?

When they wonder why be Jewish if this is Judaism, how will we answer?

Genocide Don

IDF soldiers reveal what no one in Israel wants to hear about months of fighting in Gaza ***

"Anyone with half a brain can see this war is continuing for political reasons. There's no reason to keep going. We're not achieving anything – we're just risking our lives over and over... No one believes we're helping to bring the hostages home. If anything, we're putting them in more danger.”

They can only afford 3 no votes

Largest Jewish population on earth.

Mostly Dems.

It was their primary.

They knew who he was and voted for him.

What you have here is five people of one ethnicity smiling about locking up a mass group of people from another ethnicity.

Why would you NOT call this a concentration camp?

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Also —— the bill just passed by the Senate would multiply the budget for this racist project by a factor of 20

Protect SNAP From Historic and Cruel Budget Cuts

🚨 We are outraged.

Senate Republicans just barely passed the largest SNAP cuts in history, stripping food from veterans, single mothers, and working familes.

This bill robs those with the least and gives to the richest.

We will keep fighting! Make sure the House hears from us.

Take action:

really does feel like if we can cyberbully the House into passing changes on the shit they openly hate and get it kicked back upstairs again there’s a chance it might not survive the Senate a second time

if you live in a GOP state it’s time to ruin a House rep’s life

Forget snarky responses to “big beautiful bill” language with stuff like “big ugly bill.”

When you steal a life preserver from someone in open waters, you are killing them.

Call this what it is.

A Murder Bill.

Very hard to concentrate at that camp

NYTimes story by Tony Romm: Millions of low-income Americans could experience staggering financial losses under the domestic policy package that Republicans advanced through the Senate on Tuesday, which reserves its greatest benefits for the rich while threatening to strip health insurance, food stamps and other aid from the poor.

This is Sodom.

Does the ACA cover cirrhosis of the eye?

Social media post advertising merch for a new immigrant detention center: "Feds approve Alligator Alcatraz: Florida’s gator-guarded prison for illegal aliens. Surrounded by swamps & pythons, it’s a one-way ticket to regret. Grab our merch to support tough-on-crime borders! Limited supply—get yours before the gators do!"

January 6 rioter wearing a hoodie featuring the words "Camp Auschwitz," a skull, and the phrase "Work Brings Freedom"

From the people who brought you "Camp Auschwitz" swag comes the "Alligator Alcatraz" t-shirt and beer cozy.

There is absolutely no bottom for these people.

both rightwing Jews AND Christians

Tel Hai Fund map showing “the land of Israel” encompassing present-day Israel, Palestine, and Jordan

As long as we’re asking about slogans, are Jewish candidates asked to denounce the term “greater Israel” — a call for erasing the possibility of an entity called Palestine?

For that matter, are Christian candidates asked to denounce the phrase “Jews killed Jesus?”

No? Isn’t that a double standard?

Happy Pride. Rainbows are just the start. To be queer means to always wrestle. To fight for what's at the end of the rainbow. "Queer" as in freedom to love without fear. "Queer" as in freedom to live the gender you are. "Queer" as in comfortably enjoying every right afforded to the people you make uncomfortable. "Queer" as in everyone builds this world, so everyone eats of its bounty. "Queer" as in healthcare, housing, education, meaningful labor are not commodities, conditional privileges, but rights. "Queer" as in joy with meaning, work with purpose, love with obligation. "Queer" as in the answer isn't always a bomb. "Queer" as in the answer is almost never a bomb. "Queer" as in unless its a glitter bomb. In the words of Carolyn Chou —— "Queer as in another world is possible." Gut yontiff. Chag sameach. Happy Pride. Rainbows are just the start.

Two purple tulips hover, stemless, against a lavender background on either side of an all-caps sentence: “queer as in another world is possible.” The quote is from Carolyn Chou, an activist and organizer based in Massachusetts.

"Queer as in another world is possible."

Happy Pride.

NY Times coverage of the omnibus bill, explaining how millions would lose access to food.

CBO estimating the bill would kick 13.7 million Americans off of health care plans

It’d be really swell if Jewish orgs (not to mention Dems) would spend less time doing body-cavity searches of the party’s nominee for NYC mayor and more time organizing to stop a $1.3 trillion reverse-tzedakah campaign to kill sick seniors and hungry kids and reallocate the money to billionaires.

a gitn shabes, Reb Brad!

Anchorman with story graphic reading "WHO CARES?"

I mean, I don’t know that he chose the picture, but he’s certainly not helping

If you want to see someone answer these kinds of random ambush kinds of questions, just go to a rabbinical candidate Q&A.

Anti Mamdani piece, illustrated with a shadowy picture of his face, juxtaposed with a movie poster for the antisemitic film Jud Süss, illustrated with a similar-looking shadowy picture of the actor portraying Joseph Süss Oppenheimer.

Do these folks even realize what they're doing? Or is it just bitter irony?

ADL press release calling on NYC mayoral candidates to "disassociate themselves from... antisemitic tropes and stereotypes"

ADL: "A Depressing Low"

I agree with you.

Segment of a fund-raising email from Elise Stefanik, saying that Mamdani's election "makes me sick."

Oh Elise honey, I'm sorry you're sick. If only we lived in a place with universal healthcare.

Zohran Mamdani waving

Benjamin Netanyahu waving

Some leaders of legacy Jewish institutions are just waking up to the news that many Jews dislike Netanyahu more than a 33-year-old socialist Muslim immigrant who supports BDS.

Tweet from Georgia rep Esther Panitch, claiming "I cannot overstate how scary this NYC vote is for pro-Israel American Jews (aka most Jews). Antisemitism does have a place in NY."

NARRATOR: It was, in fact, possible to overstate.

If Mamdani ends up being the nominee, what are the odds that bonehead Jewish orgs back Eric Adams in the general?

headline story from the day that Claudia Sheinbaum became Mexico's first woman and first Jewish president.

Happy birthday to smart Jewish lady and Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum! See, friends in the US? It's not hard to elect a competent leader! Even if she's a woman!

Ms. Sheinbaum, please don't forget your friends north of the border! I hope you'll give us asylum if we ever need it!

LOLSOB!