Jeremy Sarna

Jewish lawyer quits Heritage Foundation's antisemitism task force over Tucker Carlson defense - Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mark Goldfeder's public resignation comes amid a broad backlash to comments by Heritage President Kevin Roberts.

Good for this guy, though I do have to wonder about someone who joins a Heritage Foundation project thinking it’s going to be “nonpartisan.”

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The logo for the anti-defamation league

A black and white photograph of a pale young woman named Niuta Teitelbaum, who was a Jewish resistance fighter in Poland

Reject modernity, embrace tradition

*Willie Nelson voice*

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

OPERA America announces Michael J. Bobbitt as New President/CEO | OPERA America Michael J. Bobbitt succeeds Marc A. Scorca, who will conclude his 35-year tenure at the end of 2025, as president/CEO of OPERA America.

Big news for the MA arts landscape: Mass Cultural Council Executive Director Michael Bobbitt is stepping down.
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I just got tefillin-ed by a couple of Chabadniks in Coolidge Corner

Just made a donation to this fund. There's simply no way that private philanthropy can make up for missing federal funds, but it looks like that's all that's left at the moment.

Translation of the image in my last repost (which is probably a headline from an old Yiddish newspaper): "Today is 'Halloween' when it's a mitzvah to play pranks"

אַ פֿריילעכען האַלאָװין 🎃

Yeah I doubt the job he wants is bassist in an Interpol tribute band.

Okay now I have to put this on the moment I get home.

Saucepan Phase (1967)

(Volumes 1-12)

My first thought was that this is the same bird from your “gam zu l’tova” drawing, and this is somehow part of the whole backstory

No, Juilliard is not working with OpenAI on AI-generated music scores - CDM Create Digital Music Reports have been circulating that The Juilliard School is collaborating with OpenAI. One source says OpenAI is working with Juilliard students to annotate music scores for use as training. There's ju...

I fully agree, but fortunately in this particular case...
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I feel like people studying to be architects must be required to take a class in Advanced Hubris.

I’m reading a book about the Vanderbilts, and I’ve decided that if we’re going to continue to have billionaires in this country, we need at least one Mrs. Astor to shun and humiliate the rest, and constantly remind them that they are without any real value as people.

If there’s any silver lining to be found here, it’s the epic McMansion Hell post that will surely come once this monstrosity gets built.

My last repost from @musicologyduck.bsky.social may be the best advice I've heard in a while. I just started a monthly donation to Greater Boston Food Bank, and I'd encourage my local friends to do the same.

I truly believe the best thing you can do right now to support opposition is to give money to a food bank or mutual aid

Oh, of course! The Eagles started out as Linda Ronstadt’s backing band.

Thinking about The Band (as one does) and wondering if there's another example of someone's touring band staying together and striking out on their own.

Yeah, it looks like they scraped GuideStar for 990 data and logos. I'm on the board of an org that had one of these fake pages, and fortunately it was super easy to get it taken down.

They really don't like medical terms, do they?

It is not actually all we want, and you should fire the consultant who's telling you to say that it is.

Ayanna Pressley, wearing a black baseball cap, yellow bandana, and tan jacket speaking into a microphone: "No kings,"

Ayanna Pressley has taken off the baseball cap and is touching her head: "but one bald queen."

I mean, come on.

She's just so good at this.

Dartmouth rejects President Trump’s proposed compact - The Boston Globe Dartmouth college rejected a proposal by the Trump administration for preferential federal funding treatment in exchange for upholding President Trump's priorities.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/18/m...

Storefront of Russ & Daughters

No kings, only Sturgeon Queens