3 Generations

Almost a decade ago, POT LUCK raised alarms about poorly regulated legalization. Today, those warnings feel urgent. The war on drugs failed, but legalization driven by unfettered capitalism harms. Rent the film & join the conversation. 3generations.org/film/pot-luck/

Hitchcock & Bernstein: Live Performance and Panel Discussion - Jewish Literary Foundation Acclaimed actors Henry Goodman and Geoffrey Streatfeild bring key figures to life as they confront the burden of showing the world the truth.

London friends, join us. At Jewish Book Week 2026, our founder and creative director, Jane Wells, joins the panel after The Film, a live staged reading on the suppressed Holocaust footage reviewed by Sidney Bernstein and Alfred Hitchcock. 🎬🕯️📖 bit.ly/4ru61VE
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On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember. An excerpt from HERE LIVED (2023) reflects memory as something physical and present. Stones in streets. Names returned home. As antisemitism and erasure persist, remembrance is an obligation to the future. 🕯️🕊️🩶

Grateful for last night. ✡️
Thanks to New Plaza Cinema, Gary Palmucci, and everyone who braved the snow to remember together.
Memory lives because we carry it. 🕯️

A chart titled "How Is the Air in Your Neighborhood?" It lists Midtown, Manhattan as the #1 under Highest Fine Particulate Matter Pollution. It lists Rockaway/Broad Channel, Queens as #1 under High Ozone Pollution

In New York City, air pollution is unevenly distributed among the city’s neighborhoods, often in surprising ways, according to data from the New York City Department of Health. trib.al/wnFY4Cq

Across borders. Across generations. Across memory. HERE LIVED comes home to NYC for Holocaust Remembrance Day. Screening + live Q&A with Jane Wells.
🕯️ Memory is resistance. Remembrance is courage.
Jan 25, 2026 • 4:45 PM • New Plaza Cinema
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Opinion | The most elusive founder, whose pamphlet fired up a revolution With “Common Sense,” published 250 years ago this month, Thomas Paine was just getting started.

On the 250th anniversary of the Founding, Thomas Paine reminds us that democracy is a verb. He argued for reason over passion, challenged tyranny at home and abroad, and never stopped pushing America toward a more perfect Union.

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A woman wearing black sits on a bed. A quote by Mercedes Escoto reads: "I deserve to live well in an apartment that provides all the services I pay for." More text reads: "Mercedes Escoto said it is sometimes so cold in her Bronx apartment that she can see her breath indoors. 'I don't deserve this,' she said." Photo by Elias Williams for The New York Times.

Across New York, some renters — especially those in the city’s poorest neighborhoods – are frequently left without heat or hot water during the winter, leading them to bundle up in layers of clothing or risk fires by using space heaters. trib.al/so6w76W

The Epstein files should have been released a long time ago.

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand

You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen

*Everyone has stories like this*

Live Updates: States Urge Supreme Court to Uphold Bans on Transgender Athletes In two cases, the court’s conservative majority showed little inclination to strike down laws barring transgender girls from girls’ and women’s teams.

Breaking News: The Supreme Court appeared poised to uphold a pair of state laws barring transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports.

Minneapolis Grieves, Again From the daily newsletter: the city is reeling after another act of state violence.

It was George Floyd’s murder, by Minneapolis police, that catalyzed an uprising for Black lives. “Now another death, another Minnesotan tragedy, has distilled the stakes of yet another form of state violence,” E. Tammy Kim writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/IKZe6e

Remember the Epstein files, lol? Yeah, we’re never seeing those.

Rest in power #reneenicolegood 💔

3Generations - Greenland: Our Future is Melting

It’s been 10 years since we made our film on Greenland: about ecocide, not invasion. Filmed before Trump, its warning feels urgent. Greenland stands at the crossroads of climate destruction, greed, and colonization. Please stand with #Greenland. 🇬🇱 #IndigenousRights
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Black and white photograph of a young man in a suit, with a signature across the image.

Text on a page titled "The Butterfly," featuring a poem about the vivid experience and emotions associated with observing a butterfly and its surroundings.

7 January 1921 | A Czech Jew Pavel Friedmann was born in Prague. A student & poet.

In #Theresienstadt ghetto in 1942 he wrote a poem "Butterfly".

Deported to #Auschwitz on 29 September 1944. He did not survive.

Honored to be finalists in the #SingaporeFilmandScriptFestival

January 6, five years on: sustained effort by Trump to rewrite history President and Republican allies have tried to make sure the deadly attack on the Capitol has been erased from memory

January 6, five years on: sustained effort by Trump to rewrite history

Before year’s end, we screened HERE LIVED (2023) in Berlin for grades 7–12 through the U.S. Embassy’s Cultural Diplomacy program, with the Kreuzberg Initiative Against Antisemitism. ✨ Looking ahead to 2026, we’re hopeful and energized. New screenings coming soon. 🎬🌍 @3gjane.bsky.social

U.S. plan to ‘run’ Venezuela clouded in confusion In Washington and Caracas, the vision for administering Venezuela in the weeks and months ahead appears uncertain and stubbornly complex.

According to this reporting, Trump will keep the popular Venezuelan resistance leader Maria Machado from power in Venezuela because she not he won the Nobel Prize.
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As this challenging year ends and we look toward 2026, thank you to everyone who followed, shared, donated, and supported 3 Generations. Your belief in bearing witness and preserving truth sustains us. Wishing you a more hopeful and just New Year. #happynewyear2025 #3generations

Zero Hour for the Middle East After more than a decade of wars, from Syria to Gaza, the Middle East is exhausted by conflict. Is it ready to find another way?

Fom Syria to Lebanon and Israel to Gaza, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed or wounded in more than a decade of wars in the Middle East. Among some in the region, exhausted by conflict, a quiet resolve is forming to find another way.

Escape From the Abyss: Surviving the Atrocities in El Fasher

“I carried him on my back. It took seven days.” A camp in eastern Chad is now home to more than 100,000 refugees of Sudan’s civil war, and is a key destination for those fleeing El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur State. Resources are strained as the number of newly displaced people increases.

At a time when too many innocent people feel unsafe, those of us who can must do our best to help others see the light. This is the true work of 3 Generations. ☮️
- Jane Wells @3gjane.bsky.social , Founder and Creative Director

New Yorkers Back Mamdani’s Push for Free Child Care, Poll Shows A Siena University poll showed that voters support having wealthy New Yorkers pay more in taxes to fund child care statewide, and favored Gov. Kathy Hochul in next year’s election.

In New York, nearly two in three voters across the state favor Zohran Mamdani's promise to provide universal government-funded child care and would support the mayor-elect's plan to pay for it by increasing taxes on those earning more than $1 million a year, a new poll found.

After Bondi Beach Attack, Australia Is Urged to Act Faster Against Antisemitism Jillian Segal, the country’s special envoy to combat antisemitism, said the deadly incident was shocking but not surprising amid a rise in violence targeting the Jewish community.

Australia’s special envoy on antisemitism urged the government to intensify its efforts to combat threats against Jews following the Bondi Beach attacks that killed at least 15 people attending a Hanukkah celebration.

I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.

Trump Live Updates: Venezuelan Oil Tanker, Kilmar Abrego Garcia and More

Breaking News: The Senate deadlocked on proposals to avert rising health care costs, making it all but certain that Affordable Care Act subsidies will expire at the end of the month.

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