Abe אַבְרָהָם 🌻🔥

🎧 “Back when the alt-right was called the alt-right… people used to not believe me when I said how central the Jews and the so-called Jewish question were to that project.”

Add your name: American Jews reject the ADL’s racist “Mamdani Monitor” If the ADL wants to keep Jews isolated from our allies and neighbors, their time as Jewish leaders is over.

Groups like @bendthearc.bsky.social are investing in the real work of building solidarity and combatting the toxicity of smokescreen antisemitism.

Join me and add your name!

On this day November 2 in 1979, Assata Shakur was liberated from Clinton Women’s Prison

Thank you very much and fuck AI

Guillermo del Toro speaks for so many of us.

(Can this please become a meme?

Thank you very much. And fuck AI.)

I don't think it is possible to understate the impact Reb Arthur zt"l and his vision of prophetic justice had on me and generations of Jewish activists.

May the memory of the righteous be a blessing.

A silver plated trumpet stands on a candlelit table inside the music club Bossa Bistro in the Adams Morgan neighborhood in Washington DC. An exposed brick wall is in the background.

The bassist at the Bossa session said I made it feel like 1960s Brazil and that’s probably one of the nicest complements I could have gotten #BeardedTrumpetPlayer 🎺

A library has burned.
May his memory and music be a blessing.

These two headline sentences next to each other are a great encapsulation of the cognitive dissonance of this moment.

this business model should be flatly illegal

taking on a bunch of debt to buy a company and then burning the company to the ground to service that debt while paying yourselves huge fees is a purely destructive practice that has never once had a positive outcome

ban it completely

New year, new me, I’m altering my DNA by getting vaccinated for Covid & Flu during Rosh Hashanah

אַ גוט געבענטשט יאָר!! 🐏🍯🍎💉

The All-American Rejects: Field Recordings x Aspen Ideas Festival Surrounded by mountains, the band plays its biggest hits at 8,000 feet.

“If you want to make the world a better place just f*cking do it man”
-All American Rejects🤘

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Bread for the City Stands with DC Residents Against Federal Takeover - Bread for the City % Our statement on the Trump administration's announcement to federalize the MPD and infringe on fifty years of DC's right to Home Rule.

“Food insecurity is skyrocketing: we have the highest rate of food insecurity among seniors. Tens of thousands of residents are waiting for housing vouchers, some for over 20 years. Health outcomes vary widely by income and race. These are all man-made problems & they all have solutions.”

I hate generative AI images and videos for art/climate reasons.

I’ve seen Israel/Palestine discourse turn into accusations of AI images, usually people trying to dismiss the legitimacy of work by Palestinian journalists.

Haven’t considered AI leading to retroactive genocide denial too smh

Teachers at Judaism Unbound have expanded my understanding of what “Jewish wisdom” is. There is value in all kinds of study and experience. Sometimes being intentional to set norms and expectations amongst learners can help break down barriers to entry. Does this make sense?

Bass, drums, trumpet? Very cool instrumentation. And no slackers there w/ Linda, Tyshawn & Ambrose

Photos: Bike life traditions in my Washington, D.C., neighborhood Dee Dwyer documents Washington, D.C., bike life — a culture she remembers seeing during her youth in the '90s.

It’s a whole local Black subculture, tourists should learn a bit about the local communities before they visit! www.npr.org/sections/pic...

Photos: Bike life traditions in my Washington, D.C., neighborhood Dee Dwyer documents Washington, D.C., bike life — a culture she remembers seeing during her youth in the '90s.

I agree it’s a racial thing, tourist family comes to town and doesn’t care to learn about our local Black subcultures in DC www.npr.org/sections/pic...

Subjugation Day: First Ever Federalization of the DCMPD. Our Statement. - Bread for the City Our statement on the Trump administration's announcement to federalize the MPD and infringe on fifty years of DC's right to Home Rule.

“Community-based solutions to public safety and continued investment by those in power will continue to move the needle. Not by a police occupation. Not by marginalization. Not by disappearing our neighbors.”

@breadforthecity.bsky.social

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Graphic from StoryGraph showing statistics for my books read in July 2025. They include A Day In The Life Of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy, Being Jewish After The Destruction of Gaza, and BBC Radio Play adaptations of John Wyndham novels

July 2025 wrap up #BookSky

Sensing that any number of US elected officials & bureaucrats think they’re Schindler, making the tough choices to save who can be saved.

If that’s you, please complete this brief checklist.

1. Are you providing citizenship documents to people who would otherwise be kidnapped by ICE?

1/x

The atrocities the Israeli gov is committing in Gaza have created an audience for US politicians denouncing it. If orgs like the ADL were not so shortsighted, they would prefer that role to be filled by someone like Mamdani, who speaks out against antisemitism, than someone like MTG, who does not.

I'm not a Christian and have no personal stake here, but this is a model answer for a form of religious identity that avoids the twin poles of literalism and complete certitude on one side and culturally Christian-based irreligion and atheism on the other, in which we seem trapped right now.

It’s not our main reason, but this is another good reason for boycotting the airlines:

Was walking out of the Klezmatics concert first night of YidStock at Yiddish Book Center. Got compliments from elders on my singing voice and another on my posture while dancing 🥹

Alternative facts, I guess?

Seems like this will set a bad precedent, though the most charitable interpretation is that this will just allow houses of worship to be more open about what a lot of them are essentially doing already.

It’s revealing how deeply unserious Netanyahu and his warmongering allies are

New Jersey is actually pretty cool

This is so fucking good. Bonus: learn some useful Yiddish.

Who’s the one human actor on set?