Paula Galowitz

To the Editor: Re “Child Care for All Gets a New Look” (Business, Sept. 25): It is refreshing to see the prospect of universal child care cast as a driver of economic growth and development as women enter or return to the work force. While I have nothing against children (I have two of them myself), it is a mistake to limit the analysis of costs and benefits to the early childhood end of the spectrum. Caregiving, especially care for older adults and disabled people, imposes the same burdens on families as the lack of affordable child care. It takes caregivers, primarily women, out of the work force and reduces lifetime earnings and disposable income. Indeed, some three in 10 New York City voters over 40 are now caring or have cared for an older family member. I salute Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York, for centering affordable child care in his campaign and hope that it will plant the seeds for the indispensability of care across the life span. Phyllis Arnold Brooklyn

Proud to see JFREJ member Phyllis Arnold's take on the importance of care in this mayoral election highlighted in the @nytimes.com Friday

The Trump Administration's DHS officers appear to be carrying large weapons around downtown Chicago in camouflage and masks.

This is not making anybody safer — it’s a show of intimidation, instilling fear in our communities and hurting our businesses.

Tell Your Democratic Senator(s) to Make Sure Schumer Doesn't Hand Trump a Blank Check act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...

Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.

Photos capture Chicagoans’ protest against ICE and Trump’s intervention plans CHICAGO (AP) — Thousands of protesters marched in Chicago on Saturday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trump’s plan to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to the city.

Thousands of protesters marched in Chicago on Saturday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trump’s plan to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to the city.

A hoard of people march in the streets with protest signs. Even in heels, I am too short to properly show the massive scale of the crowd.

The streets of Chicago are full with tens of thousands of people standing up to ICE and Trump.

Join us.

NO THRONES. NO CROWNS. NO KINGS. SATURDAY, OCT. 18

Millions of Americans took to the streets in June to drown out Trump’s birthday parade.

As Trump’s regime escalates his authoritarian power grab, we’re gathering again on October 18 for a nationwide day of peaceful protests to say NO KINGS.

We hope you will join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

JEWISH VOTER CANVASS KICKOFF WED 8/27 | 6-9PM | ACROSS NYC Group of canvassers holding signs that say: REAL PUBLIC SAFETY + FREEDOM OF SPEECH NY ers DESERVE THE WORKS un LOX THE FUNDING Nets DESERVE WORKS DONE WITH CUOMO'S CAPERS UNIVERSAL CHILDCARE + HOMECARE SPREAD WEALTH ROUND RSVP FOR DETAILS JFREJ.ORG/FIELD

Map of NYC with pushpins in the neighborhoods we are canvassing!

Join us for a very exciting Jewish Voter Canvass kickoff next week Wednesday August 27th✨

We are less than 12 weeks from the general election ‼️ Talk to Jewish voters about the issues that matter to them and how NYC can win a progressive future we deserve!

Learn more and rsvp at jfrej.org/field

Block the Bombs to Israel A critical new bill, the Block the Bombs Act (H.R.3565) has been introduced by Rep. Delia Ramirez. If passed, this bill would block weapons that have been documented in devastating attacks against Pal...

Block the Bombs to Israel rootsaction.org/block-the-bo...

BREAKING: We filed a class action lawsuit against ICE for denying people access to lawyers and subjecting them to inhumane conditions at 26 Federal Plaza in New York.

ICE is illegally holding people here for weeks, often without adequate access to medical care, food, or legal counsel.

Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders? A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.

Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...

In the not-so-distant future, Israel will have to reckon with its war crimes in Gaza | Opinion ***

If you believe all human beings are created b’tzelem Elohim, in God’s image, then you must speak up now against the daily atrocities in Gaza.

www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

This level of barbarity is unconscionable.

Nobody should be comfortable with children and families starving to death.

It is morally indefensible to allow the manufactured and man-made starvation to continue. The United States must stop funding and enabling this genocide.

THREAD: Are you seeing what we’re seeing? Israel is starving everyone in Gaza. Deliberately.

That’s a population of over 2 million people, nearly half of whom are children, forced to go without enough food and water for months on end. #StopStarvingGaza

“85% of Gaza’s population have entered the ‘fifth stage’ of malnutrition — the most critical and dangerous phase, which is often irreversible even if food becomes available in the future,” says Palestinian reporter Anas al-Sharif.

Heading into NYC for a live shot, and this is the sign on one of the overpasses

As the daily mass kidnappings of our immigrant neighbors continue at 26 Federal Plaza, 25,000 NYers stood (and sat) together to demand the end of the disappearances at immigration court — and for NYS to protect every single NYer.

Text "Action" to 52866 to join the fight

Lunacy. They just funded Trump’s private army.

We are out here in midtown with our Muslim neighbors, standing outside @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social’s Manhattan office to demand she apologize to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and all her constituents for her racist, anti-Muslim remarks. Stop trying to divide Jewish & Muslim NYers, Senator!

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CALLING ALL JEWS FOR ZOHRAN! Sign up now to pledge to help elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York in November: jfrej.org/jews4zohran

#JewsForZohran #MayorMamdani

Tim Walz eulogizes slain lawmaker as a historic Minnesotan — and friend After a hug with Kamala Harris, Gov. Tim Walz eulogized slain state Rep. Melissa Hortman as “the most consequential speaker in Minnesota history.”

It's incredible that neither the president nor VP was here. The politicization of all facets of American life is coming from the White House. No other American president would have failed to pay their respects. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Why Are Federal Agents Wearing Masks? It’s a Threat to American Democracy Masked Federal Agents Are Undermining Trust—and Democracy

Take your masks off ICE, show us how proud you are

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4 men in jeans, t-shirts, bullet proof vests, balaclavas pulled up to their eyes, hats. They are armed and have badges but are not in uniform. They look both incredibly menacing and unbelievably dumb. They are standing at the end of an office hallway.

It is true that sometimes New York City is frightening. For example today these men were loitering in the hallway of the 12th floor of the federal building.

This AM, I was at immigration court with @jfrejnyc.bsky.social, @bradlander.bsky.social, @tiffanycaban.bsky.social, and @votejgr.bsky.social.

Masked ICE agents are still pulling our neighbors away from their families.

What's happening is a moral failure. We can't treat it like business as usual.

The appalling smearing of Zohran Mamdani as 'anti-semitic' It's Islamophobic. It's racist. It's also completely untrue.

I got mad and I wrote about it.

The Jewish Vote: June 2025 Voter Guide JFREJ's recommendations for 2025 democratic primary races across New York City.

Election Day is June 24th! Here’s a voter guide to help you as you cast your ballot. We’re so proud to have endorsed both @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social & @bradlander.bsky.social in a dual, un-ranked endorsement. Rank them both at the top of your ballot and remember: #DontRankCuomo!

TEXT ORDER: The Respondents shall file a letter on or before 9:30am on May 8. It shall list each instance, other than this one, in which federal officials have invoked 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(4)(C) to seek the removal or deportation of a person from the United States. As to each case, the United States shall include (a) a description of the underlying facts of the case, and (b) a copy of the Secretary of State's determination as to the case, whether reflected in a memorandum, in a letter to the Attorney General or the Secretary of Homeland Security, or in some other form. In addition, the Respondents shall file a letter on or before noon on May 8. It shall list each instance, other than this one, in which federal officials have invoked a predecessor statute to 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(4)(C) to seek the removal or deportation of a person from the United States. As to each case, the United States shall include (a) a description of the underlying facts of the case, and (b) a copy of the Secretary of State's determination as to the case, whether reflected in a memorandum, in a letter to the Attorney General or the Secretary of Homeland Security, or in some other form. For the purposes of the second May & letter, the Respondents shall focus only on the period from 1975 to the present. The text of all asserted predecessor statutes shall be included in the letter. The relevant predecessor statutes shall include the statute invoked by the United States in the Massieu case; that statute was then at 8 U.S.C. 1251(a)(4)(C)(). So Ordered by Judge Michael E. Farbiarz on 5/7/2025. (ro, ) (Entered: 05/07/2025)

NEW: In the Mahmoud Khalil case, Judge Farbiarz orders the government to give him a COMPLETE LIST of every time since 1975 it has invoked the secretary of state's power to deport someone for foreign-policy reasons—including a description of each case's facts and a copy of the official determination.

Don’t just hope New Yorkers refuse to elect Cuomo & Adams…help make it happen! JFREJ members are canvassing every weekend all over the city to talk to Jewish voters about our vision for NYC, and why a progressive mayor is a big part of how we win it. Sign up: jfrej.org/field

Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

If you’re not fighting against mask bans because you think they “only” apply to those committing crimes… consider the following:

Who decides who’s committing a crime? The police. POC who mask will be disproportionately targeted.

Who decides if your medical exemption is “good enough”? Police 🧵