Your morning reading on Reza Pahlavi, the scion offering to be Iran's transitional leader if the regime falls.
01.03.2026 14:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Your morning reading on Reza Pahlavi, the scion offering to be Iran's transitional leader if the regime falls.
01.03.2026 14:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Beyond the threat Iran poses to Israel and its own people, Jews in Iran have been living in an impossible situation where the only way to survive is to genuflect to the regime. We posted this at @forward.com yesterday, before the strike began and ahead of Purim, which begins Monday night.
28.02.2026 15:21 — 👍 15 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 3In the aftermath of Oct. 7, many rush to paint the pro-Palestinian movement in the U.S. as supporters of Hamas terrorism — often relying on tenuous claims about slogans and political platforms that didn't hold up to scrutiny. 🧵
23.02.2026 16:20 — 👍 18 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 1Young adults are becoming more likely to tell pollsters that they see Hamas as a militant resistance group, rejecting the label "terrorist." But views also defy simple labels, @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social found in this look at the numbers.
23.02.2026 13:07 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 07am major reporting sites snowfall update: Islip: 22.5" Newark: 18.3" NWS NY (Upton, NY): 18.3" Central Park: 15.1" LGA: 15.1" JFK: 15.0"
WNBC says another 5-6 hours of snow to go. Central Park already at 15," per the NWS weather stations. Newark Airport has gotten 18" already. Long Island has gotten socked with between 18-22". x.com/NWSNewYorkNY...
23.02.2026 12:34 — 👍 34 🔁 12 💬 4 📌 0Almost all Ethopian Jews in the U.S. arrived via Israel, and their ties have made them a target. Said one: “For a long time, I felt like that extra layer of being Black almost protected me, because people are scared of being called racist...I don’t think I have that extra armor anymore."
22.02.2026 15:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1"The likelihood of the U.S. striking Iran is currently the top trending market on Polymarket, with $313 million wagered." From @miraefox.bsky.social
20.02.2026 17:28 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 3A Marty Supreme review as meant to be heard: in Yiddish (with English subtitles)
20.02.2026 16:52 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Romance is the last literary genre frontier for me. Philip Roth does not count.
19.02.2026 17:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My colleague @talyazax.bsky.social checked in with sometime adversary/sometime friend Abe Foxman, the longtime past ADL leader, on the legacy of Jesse Jackson. Foxman said: "We have to learn that people can change their minds and hearts."
19.02.2026 17:07 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Do read @louiskeene.bsky.social's profile of a DSA city council member who is a serious contender to be the next mayor of LA — and taking a different approach from the group and NYC's Zohran Mamdani when it comes to Israel.
19.02.2026 15:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’ve changed publications but am still on Inside City Hall @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social occasional Wednesday eves. Tonight around 7:40 and again at 11:40, Gerson Borrero, @errollouis.bsky.social and I talk Mamdani’s tax gambit, rent freeze prospects and Jesse Jackson. TIL it streams on YouTube!
19.02.2026 00:15 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Mimouna is a Moroccan celebration in which Muslims bring Jews flour and fixings for a post-Passover kitchen reboot. Honoring it on campus is just one of the ways students are finding what they have in common.
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Why is Frederick Wiseman so revered? There’s no substitute for watching his works, but for now read Dan Friedman’s appreciation.
17.02.2026 12:50 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0My colleague @jacobkornbluh.bsky.social got the first interview with @phylisawisdom.bsky.social, Mamdani's appointee as antisemitism watchdog. See what she said.
13.02.2026 20:37 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Just you wait for the Bintel Brief reboot.
13.02.2026 16:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0"At points the rabbis prophesize all sorts of ills to come out of bad sex (which includes, variously, sex both standing up and sitting down), but they also have some pretty solid advice." As related by @miraefox.bsky.social
13.02.2026 15:29 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0The longtime director of the ADL’s Center on Extremism — which tracks this kind of thing on social media — left last month to work for another watchdog group that has been deeply critical of the ADL’s political shift
13.02.2026 14:15 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0This disinformation about the Canadian mass shooter circulated widely (including on a syndicated post @forward.com published and has since unpublished) before the ADL retracted it. This is from the nation's leading antisemitism watchdog.
13.02.2026 13:54 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2Important analysis from @miraefox.bsky.social on what now-ex-Trump religious liberty panelist Carrie Prejean Boller's declaration against Zionism portends: a Catholic front in the burgeoning right-wing coalition opposing Israel.
12.02.2026 18:23 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1Ice Jewish girl from Manhattan! Kamyrn Lute is making her Olympic debut this week on the U.S. speed skating team.
11.02.2026 21:48 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A very handy rundown of the issues looming as Trump and Bibi meet at the White House today.
11.02.2026 11:53 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0The longtime Jewish love affair with Latin music lives on in the Bad Bunny halftime show.
10.02.2026 21:43 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 1Forward columnist Dan Perry on the collapse of "Zionism": "What I do not accept is the mutated version of Zionism that equates Jewish self-determination with permanent and non-democratic domination over another people."
10.02.2026 17:03 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I want to see these zines! Produced in the Netherlands in hiding during WWII and resurfaced on the Upper West Side.
06.02.2026 19:00 — 👍 25 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1Ah I thought one had the option of nuclear or not. Because...I don't block people.
06.02.2026 18:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ah, the blocking not only me but my followers treatment.
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