Jerusalem was rocked over the past two weekends by Haredim (Ultra-Orthodox) Jews protesting on Shabbat afternoons against a recently opened new café located in the downtown area, Café Basimta (in the...
Everyone in the Clavicular Israel Story Is a Little Bit Awful, Actually
OK, not totally everybody, but pretty much, almost everybody. Quick premise, for anyone who hasn’t been following the group chat: a 20 year old looksmaxxing streamer named Clavicular is...
Choreography, Not Courage: Rahm Emanuel in Tel Aviv
Rahm Emanuel gave a speech in Tel Aviv yesterday. OK. Cool, right? I met his niece, Rebekah Emanuel in Jerusalem in 2012 at one of those 2-day conferences that the city’s tourist infrastructure...
Vigilante Criminals, Not Settlers
I want to be friends with Mayor Aliza Pilichowski. Maybe the three of us, her, me, and her husband Rabbi Uri Pilichowski, who has his own remarkable site full of essays and Torah teaching, can grab a...
JVP Isn’t After My $20. It’s After Us.
I’m on Jewish Voice for Peace‘s email list the way you slow down for a car accident. Not because I want to be there. Because I can’t quite believe what I’m looking at, and I...
Settler Vigilantism Isn’t Jewish Law. It Endangers… Everyone.
Jewish law does not bless settler vigilantism, not loosely, not by analogy, not through Pinchas, not through anyone. This isn’t a technicality for people who enjoy Talmud on the side. Vigilante...
80 Years Since Antisemitism Ended: A Celebration!
Eighty years. Can you believe it? Eighty whole years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in January 1945 put a conclusive end to Antisemitism, the world collectively exhaled, and Jewish people...
Cenk Uygur Says Israel Stole Nuclear Secrets From America. Here’s What Actually Happened.
A narrative history, 1948–1985 A Note on Why This Piece Exists Cenk Uygur, founder of The Young Turks, is one of the most predictable voices in media today. Whether on his own show or as a frequent...
F*ck Your Bagels, Zohran
Civics 101, real quick: Jewish Americans have the same constitutional right as every other group of Americans to organize, advocate, donate, lobby, and support whatever political causes they believe...
The Biggest Fraud Ever Committed Against the Arab and Muslim Peoples
For the past couple of years I have been a regular presence in Pro-Palestinian TikTok lives. If you’re not familiar with the format: TikTok allows users to broadcast live video to their...
