• at least 500,000 people killed in Russia-Ukraine war
• 6 million Ukrainian refugees in Europe and 8 million are internally displaced
• the Russian blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports is exacerbating a global food crisis
but the Israeli response to Oct 7 is…
@Yair_Rosenberg
It’s not because they think they aren’t “sufficiently pro-Palestinian” but because they recognize that advocating for democracy for some is not advocating for democracy at all.
@bennessb
Sometimes it’s the intensive effort needed to do the most basic things, like walking up stairs can knock me out for half an hour and make me forget what I was doing.
Or that any social activity that requires much standing up is always followed by days of extra exhaustion.
@LevineJonathan
This would be extremely out of character for the national community. The only Jews I know who would vote for Trump in 2020 already voted for him in 2016. None of them care about the other candidate.
Listening to Marc Maron's podcast and pondering why (some) American Jews, who for the most part have lived in relative safety, are so obsessed with personal safety.
I joined a Rosh Hashanah service for the first time in my life and was met with prayers sung to the tune of Bowie's Space Oddity.
American Judaism is vibrant and innovative and vocal and I love it.
It appears Max Berger has erased all of his inflammatory anti-Israel tweets now that he works for
@ewarren
.
As a supporter since the CFPB days, as someone who values her calls for transparency, will the senator address this deliberate obfuscation?
for years I have been begging Jewish Angelenos to invest in a local paper that actually covers LA
it has been hours since a Jewish man was shot in Pico-Robertson and the Jewish Journal report cites a NY-based paper and an ADL statement
When people are shocked that Hollywood actors come off as detached from reality, this is why.
Rogen truly thinks Israel is in a major conflict even though more people are killed from gun violence EVERY YEAR in America than in decades of the Israeli-Arab conflict.
@ZvikaKlein
@antonia_yamin
@kanyewest
not sure how great of a response this is given that he's claiming he's an original Hebrew and she's depicting him... wearing a Magen David
we were barely six weeks “post-period” when we realized the happy news and eight weeks “post-period” when we learned my partner was probably pregnant with an empty sac, it took nine weeks for confirmation of the awful news
these ghouls will make heartbreaking moments even worse
After a heated 5-hour public hearing in Florida today, a senate committee advanced a bill that would ban abortion at 6 weeks post-period and give $25 million to deceptive, Evangelical-run anti-abortion centers.
Seth Rogen: "I haven't gotten along with an Israeli in a long time."
Marc Maron: "I don't think I ever got along with an Israeli."
And to think people keep blaming Israelis for why there's such a gap between the two largest Jewish communities in the world.
Rogen: "If it's for religious reasons, I don't agree with it because I think religion is silly."
Thanks, bud, love to know that you have no problem milking the culture for your own benefit with no regard or respect for the people still practicing the religion it comes from.
This really gets at one of the biggest hurdles undiagnosed chronic pain sufferers face.
If you advocate for yourself, "You're reading too much webMD."
If you don't, you're at the mercy of doctors who haven't read the latest literature.
But another way this breaks down seems to fall along lines of *how* you got your knowledge.
There is a huge amount of systemic gatekeeping around who is encouraged to use medical language and who is treated like a paranoid interloper who is out of their lane.
5/
I do think it is important he says it 👇
The emergency or pandemic phase is over. COVID will be around for tens of thousands of years. Time to stop using EUA at FDA and time to actively advise people to throw away their n95s and get back to living. Getting COVID is inevitable
I've been phone banking weekly with two different groups (shoutout to
@USJewishDems
and LA Election Project) calling voters in swing states.
It's my first time volunteering since 2008 when I was in college.
Please, please for the love of our collective future: vote early.
I'm making calls with the NorCal chapter of
@USJewishDems
. and my very first was with an 81-year-old grandma who is more fired-up against Trump than I am.
And my favorite part: she had already convinced her grandson to mail in his ballot the same day it arrives.
Maron: "I get frightened to talk about it. We're afraid of Jews."
*laughing*
Rogen: "I'm afraid of Jews. I'm a hundred percent afraid of Jews."
Is this a joke? You're talking about it, with no fear of repercussions, on one of the most popular podcasts in America.
American technology has driven multiple genocides in the past decade alone but somehow the nefarious actions of a few Israelis amount to Israel being at the heart of everything’s that’s wrong with the world.
I moved to America in sixth grade. The American history I was taught was also patriotically whitewashed. But, again, no one stopped me from reading Zinn.
No one *owes* you a deprogramming. It's on you.
this denies the heroic efforts of 550,000 Jewish Americans during WW2
this is Warsaw Ghetto Uprising erasure
this is partisan erasure
this is denial of our shared history in service of myopic tribalism
Rogen can't imagine living in Israel: "At best you're convincing yourself that you are far enough away from a major conflict without having to worry about it."
Rogen lives in a multimillion-dollar mansion miles away from Latinx and Black communities being ravaged by COVID.
They keep equating being Jewish with being old and it is exhausting. There are young Jews redefining what it means to be Jewish but you'd never know it from listening to these two "famous Jews" complaining.
Cedars is one of the worst offenders, all under the guide of a "not-for-profit" hospital.
They once billed me a $1,200 facility fee because a doctor gave me a shot in a different room than the initial consultation.
They got bafflegab from
@CedarsSinai
: "We do not post standard cash rates, which typically will not reflect the price of care for uninsured patients."
@PennMedicine
made a funny: "Penn Medicine is committed to transparency about potential costs."
17/
hear me out: two things can be true at the same time
• Jews can feel unsafe on campus because they are being threatened
AND
• Muslims and Palestinians are being targeted by basketcase bigots
Seth goes on to explain it by way of the "psychotic" fresh-out-of-the-army counselors at his Jewish sleepaway camp.
I can't imagine harboring such resentment for a people based on such a limited sample size.
Y’all remember when Ezra Klein was touting his brilliant wife’s article about Millennials being screwed twice in ten years earlier this week... knowing he’ll be furloughing 10% of them by its end?
If you go back three generations, there were as many Jews alive as there are today. Rogen would know that if he picked up ANY book on Jewish history or demographics or even just stopped to think about the Shoah for more than a second.
the thing that's been irking me all week about the 180,000 letters to Biden to mark the 180 days hostages have been captive in Gaza is that it was delivered to the wrong address in the wrong country
@tomtomorrow
I’ve been more or less stuck at home for a decade with chronic pain and every time I see people who once told me they were “jealous” complaining about how hard it is to be quarantined I want to empathize but my actual reaction is unbridled rage.
this is an obscene euphemism for "actively opposed accepting Jews and intensively lobbied for quotas on Jewish refugees from Europe"
also curious if this is how understanding the NYT was to the Americans currently opposing the resettlement of Afghan refugees
To be clear: Amazon spent a year fooling mayors into providing them the best incentives (including future zoning plans) only to place their new HQs in the existing power centers of the country
After running a year-long competition that drew interest from hundreds of cities and a number of states, Amazon has reportedly chosen New York City and Northern Virginia to split duty as its second headquarters
They're now talking about how wonderful the Jewish rites around death are and my poor, poor brain.
They just want to be able to pick and choose their Jewish traditions and, if they bothered to talk to anyone, they'd realize that's one of the best things about Judaism.
Rogen: "As a Jewish person, I was fed a huge amount of lies about Israel my entire life."
Whose fault is that? I was also fed those lies when I was younger. I was IN the Israeli education system. But I sought out other sources.
@AnshelPfeffer
Failing up is not the talent we should be cultivating in opinion writers. And where is the integrity in repeating Republican talking points then absolving yourself by "criticizing" Trump?
Rogen: "If it's for the preservation of the Jewish people, it makes no sense. Because, again, you don't keep something you're trying to preserve all in one place, especially when that place has proven to be volatile."
How do you even argue with this logic?
there are more than 6,000,000 American Jews, making the *extraordinary* signing of 93 names to the letter representative of 0.00155% of the community
this is straightforward tokenization
@BharatRamamurti
When Bob Johnson became the first Black billionaire, there were 538.
Because of the Dot Com Bust, the list was shorter when Oprah joined with 476 total billionaires.
By the time three Black Americans were on the list at the same time, there were 1,810 billionaires.
@ewarren
To preempt any misunderstanding: I do not think Max Berger is "friends with Hamas" or a "self-hating Jew" as some crude voices claim.
My issue is that his rhetoric seems in bad faith, like theirs. He appears more interested in causing a ruckus than offering a plan.
NEW! It’s now the month of Elul, a time of introspection & repentance work leading up to the High Holy Days.
To help, there now exists @/RepentanceBot — if you see someone making a half-arsed apology on this website, tag the bot w/keyword “help” for a guide for the perplexed.🤖
Rogen: "Israel is the thing that I was, that I look back on, and look at as maybe one of the things I was most misinformed about."
The refusal to take responsibility is exhausting. At some point, you become your own person and have the freedom to seek out dissenting views.
@tomtomorrow
It gets better. Here’s a Khalil Gibran line that was always there for me through heartbreak: “The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”
one of the most famous American Jews enjoying a cheeseburger
maybe, before you question the Jewishness of another Jew, remember that throughout our history we have never been uniform in our observance
maybe, just maybe, Jews observing differently isn't a "continuity crisis"
@temasmith
@Sethrogen
I don't know who this is because it looks like I missed the latest wave. Sorry this keeps happening to you!
Here's my brother's chihuahua in a very chic outfit as a very minor cleansing of the timeline.
Ok, if you do choose to listen to this, it is truly divine that around the 18-minute mark they begin to fetishize Israelis.
If they called any other people "leathery" and "tough" and "veiny" and portray them all as brutish ruffians. people would be up in arms.
B"H may I have the patience to keep reading when the author refuses to contextualize key moments, to place them in history, with the Pittsburgh Platform being a product of a time when Jews wanted to integrate into America while proto-Zionists in Russia were plagued by pogroms
@sareemakdisi
@ClaraJeffery
The first image is from 2017, the rest are from 2019. This level of carelessness is understandable from activists but not the EIC of Mother Jones.
@brianstelter
@DustinGouker
It isn't respectful to miss the whole point of the argument. Five years ago, I became a citizen. Last week at immigration, I got a printout with a big X over my information. I worried I wouldn't be allowed in. Not understanding that stress is a privilege.