Gili Getz

Chicago Jews say: LET GAZA LIVE Join Chicago area rabbis and cantors Monday, August 4, 2025 4:30-5:15 PM 500 West Madison St., Chicago (In front of the Israeli Consulate) No flags please

CHICAGO!

Yidden especially!

MONDAY!

TURN OUT!

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

Please get this out to all your networks!!

Trump fires labor statistics boss hours after weak jobs report The president implied that the BLS commissioner, long-time federal employee Erika McEntarfer, manipulated the data "for political purposes."

BREAKING: President Trump fires the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics hours after weak jobs report.

Outside @schumer.senate.gov NY office.
Credit: @giligetz.bsky.social

BREAKING: The Women of Umm Al-Kheir Go on Hunger Strike - Today (July 31), more than seventy women, ranging in age from 13 to over 70, from the village of Umm al-Kheir in Masafer Yatta, decided to begin a hunger strike immediately

(2/2) This event is a mass mobilization of American Jews who object to our government's continued support for the policy of starvation and refusal to leverage its immense power to compel the admission of humanitarian aid.

*Please do not bring flags.*

NYC: Join us Monday, August 4 at 6:30pm by Trump Hotel in Columbus Circle.

We need to keep up the pressure and get more food and aid into Gaza NOW before more Palestinians die of starvation. (1/2)

Monday Aug 4, 6:30pm Trump Hotel, colombus Circle: Jews say no more, stop starvation, stop ethnic cleansing

Another mobilization, Yidden, on Monday, through @truahrabbis.bsky.social

A mobilization of US Jews who object to our govt's support for the policy of starvation & refusal to leverage its immense power to compel the admission of humanitarian aid.

*Please do not bring flags.* they ask.

I should specify: NYC Jews

(and no, I do not live in NYC)
(but it says Columbus Circle on the thingy, self evident, etc etc)

photo of thousands of protesters at dusk holding posters with clouds overhead.

Thousands took to the streets in Tel Aviv tonight demanding Israel
Stop Starving Gazans
Bring Home the Hostages
Get Justice for Awdah Hathaleen, the Palestinian peace activist murdered this week by a known settler terrorist.
h/t @giligetz.bsky.social

My photography from the first of it's kind Halachic Left forum in BJ is published in RNS and Forward.

"How to find moral guidance for this time in the rules and practices that govern Jewish life"

(2/2) Read the letter, and find the full list of signatories: buff.ly/ckLJ53I

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: End the Silence: A Community Call to Action. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. J Street is proud to be hosting a National Mobilization Call to rally our community to shatter the wall of silence and call for an end to this war, the return of the hostages and a surge of aid into G...

"The roofs were filled with women and small children expiring from hunger, and the corpses of old men were piled in the streets." Our ED, R' @mhughesrob.bsky.social, cites Flavius Josephus's description of the siege of J'lem in 70CE.
Still a chance to join the call jstreet.org/EndTheSilence

SO PROUD of my colleagues for willingly putting their bodies in the hands of the state for this critical demand.

Thank you @rabbijilljacobs.bsky.social
Rabbi @evantraylor.bsky.social Rabbi Rachel Timoner, Rabbi Elizabeth Richman & everyone else —

Photos I’m 98% sure are @giligetz.bsky.social

Bay Area Jews mourn Palestinian friend killed in West Bank The shooting death of Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen has stunned Bay Area Jewish activists, to whom he was a partner for change.

Bay Area Jewish activists mourn Palestinian friend shot and killed in West Bank jweekly.com/2025/07/29/b...

🏴‍☠️Earlier today, at the weekly protest of Israelis for Peace & Friends of @standing-together.bsky.social NY, we sat in silence—holding photos of innocent Palestinian children killed in Gaza
#WarCoholic #Satanyahu
#EndTheWar #StopTheBloodshed #BringThemHome #YesToPeace
📸 @giligetz.bsky.social 🧵

Rabbis Urge House to Vote No on Deadly Budget Bill | T'ruah url:https://truah.org/press/rabbis-urge-house-to-vote-no-on-deadly-budget-bill/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR6tQ46LZjY3qRtIpkvTqKyNgETN6jBGm7hwRMB_JmAPMilLyruRA5Fv7Tzw-Q_aem_hmrwb74Qug2CNoPlBRuTKQ

@jacobkornbluh.bsky.social
on X: Brad Lander at Israelis for Peace weekly rally 🧵👇
Video credit: @giligetz.bsky.social
We 💙 @bradlander.bsky.social
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Proud beyond measure to vote alongside Meg, Marek, and Rosa just now in Brooklyn. And deeply grateful for each and every supporter, volunteer, and voter ranking me #1.

Four days. Let’s win this.

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Yesterday, at the weekly interfaith vigil at Columbus Circle, which included words from friends and clergy from various denominations, the focus was on the sanctity of life 🕊️ 🧵
Credit @giligetz.bsky.social

Israel says Iran was racing toward a bomb. US says it was years away | CNN Politics When Israel launched its series of strikes against Iran last week, it also issued a number of dire warnings about the country’s nuclear program, suggesting Iran was fast approaching a point of no retu...

Israel says Iran was racing toward a bomb. US intelligence says it was years away

In Israel and Iran there are ongoing arrests of citizens for protesting against the war and the regimes.

Thousands of New Yorkers took to the streets on #NoKingsday joining the largest nationwide coordinated protests against Trump since the elections - against authoritarianism and violence. My photos:

10 Questions With Brad Lander Brad Lander, the New York City comptroller who is running for mayor, visited The New York Times for an interview.

10 Questions With Brad Lander
@bradlander.bsky.social for NYV Mayor!!!
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/n...

Hamas documents reportedly show deep ties, coordination between Qatar, terror group Papers apparently seized in Gaza show Hamas political chief told Doha its funds were the group's 'main artery' and Sinwar wanted more supportive Qatar to take leading role in mediation

www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-docume...

Yesterday I went to the opening of the Photoville photography festival. The exhibits by Samar Abu Elouf, a Palestinian photographer from Gaza, and Oded Balilty, an Israeli photographer from Jerusalem were right next to each other creating space for the suffering of both people.
End the war NOW!

My photography exhibition about Israelis and Palestinians in the holy land resisting the war, fighting for the hostages, speaking out against starvation and extermination in Gaza, ethnic cleansing in the WB, and against authoritarianism
For mass aid, joint resistance, co-creation and peace for all.

Today in NYC and DC - against the war and mass war crimes and for a hostage deal NOW!

We must face reality — the Gaza War is now a war of annihilation Jay Michaelson argues that canceling Israel’s critics won’t change the reality of what is unfolding in Gaza.

Canceling Israel’s critics won’t change the reality of what is unfolding in Gaza

600 days of dehumanization, savagery, killing, abandonment, destruction, despair, fanaticism, and darkness. There is a better way.

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Titled "it's not either\or" - guarding hour humanity.