I attended Chabad #dayschool as a child. I have my issues with them, for sure, but one of them is not the quality of my secular #education. When I moved to public school in 10th grade I was well-prepared, and I went on to attend the college of my choice.

These NY #yeshivot, however, are a different story. They're attempting to create here what they've successfully created in #Israel: an entire generation of adults unable to make any contribution to society whatsoever; unable to make a living anywhere outside the #haredi community; unable to speak the language of their country; unable to act as informed citizens of a #democracy; and ultimately, unable to raise children of their own who are not similarly handicapped.

Torah-observant #Jews needn't be so isolated from the greater community.

Good for #NewYork for insisting that NY children be given the opportunity to become educated, fully-participating members of society.

#JTA #yeshiva #Jewish #education

https://www.jta.org/2025/03/20/united-states/three-more-new-york-city-yeshivas-lose-status-and-funding-over-secular-education-standards

Ok, if I have this story correct, an American citizen with Palestinian heritage, married a nice boy from #India with a PhD in Middle Eastern Peace Studies. The girl says pro #Palestine things on her social media, but the boy, Badar Khan Suri, is fairly circumspect in his public statements. The people using #Jews as an excuse to attack #Arabs realize they can’t deport the American (yet), but they can deport her husband, even though he’s done nothing wrong.

Everyone needs to realize that the goal of the neonazis is to turn all of us against each other. They will use any excuse, and blame any other group to get away with atrocities. It’s trans people and Palestinians and Hispanics today, it’s gonna be Catholics, Jews and Leftists next, if history is any indication.

#BadarKhanSuri #ICE #rendition #blacksites

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/20/trump-administration-attempting-to-deport-pro-palestinian-student-at-georgetown-university

Jewish fraternity at San Diego State University vandalized with antisemitic graffiti

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-846798

The vandalism followed an incident report of a group throwing objects at a building and yelling antisemitic slurs.

This is good news, if it passes the #Bundesrat. And yes, I'm aware of the historical irony of a descendant of #Eastern #European #Jews cheering on the growth of the #German #military. No permanent allies or enemies, only permanent interests.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62z6gljv2yo

An Ottoman Firman Concerning Not Collecting Illegal Tax from the #Jews Visiting to #Jerusalem, 1726 [𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗜𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗹𝘁 𝗧𝗲𝘅𝘁] #Palestine #History

"We are witnessing one of the greatest attacks on the rights and safety of American Jews, particularly American Jewish students, in modern American history, perhaps since the Red Scare of the early 1950s. Let me say that again, because what I said may strike some people as strange. We are witnessing one of the greatest attacks on the rights and safety of American Jews, particularly Jewish students, in modern history."

~ Peter Beinart

#Trump #Jews #antisemitism
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https://peterbeinart.substack.com/p/you-are-no-longer-a-jew

"Never Again for Anyone"

Over 300 protesters with Jewish Voice for Peace flooded the Trump Tower lobby on Thursday wearing red shirts saying “Not in Our Name.” They demanded the immediate release of #MahmoudKhalil and held banners reading “opposing fascism is a #Jewish tradition.”…“I refuse to allow this administration to speak in my name, to use our names as #Jews, to carry out a fascist agenda,” a protester said."

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/14/jvp_sitin_trump_tower_mahmoud_khalil

Someone should treat #Musk the way #Hitler treated the #Gypsies and the #Jews

#ElonMuskIsANazi

Musk Retweets ‘Hitler Didn’t Murder Millions’ Message Amid Ongoing Nazi Controversy https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2025/03/13/musk-retweets-hitler-didnt-murder-millions-message-amid-ongoing-nazi-controversy/

An important thing to understand especially as I see many happily thinking that if some Jewish people align fully with their anti-Israel ignorance, that’s fine, the rest are maybe wrong or awful, and nothing more needs to be understood. The phrases “token Jew” and even “self-hating” (she doesn’t use that one) are dismissive, but point is, the wider community is ignored, even reviled. She says it better.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHG74ZhMJ6w/?igsh=MWp1a3VkeGQ3dTl4Yw==

"Two astonishing #books about the lives of #Polish #Jews who survived the Second World War or were born after the war.

Two by Mikołaj Grynberg: I’d Like to Say Sorry, But There’s No One to Say Sorry To: Stories, The New Press, 2021, 137 pages, $19.99 and Confidential, A Novel, The New Press, 2025, 155 pages, $19.99. Both #translated from the Polish by Sean Gasper Bye."

https://artsfuse.org/306838/book-reviews-the-fiction-of-mikolaj-grynberg-simultaneously-embracing-the-tragic-and-the-comic/

"Five thousand years ago, a nomadic monotheist called Abram wandered out of the Sumerian city of Ur and headed to rural Canaan, inventing #Judaism and changing the world forever. Around 2,500 years ago a crypto-Jewish queen managed to save the #Jewish community from a genocidal vizier, prompting the celebration of #Purim — our most bacchanalian festival. Fifteen years ago, under the guidance of Dan Friedman, radical satiric firebrand Ian Fist founded the Backward to bring American Purim values to the Forward. He hired Rob Kutner from The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, thus revolutionizing online Jewish #journalism. Now Kutner has brought it all together in an irreverent #history The #Jews: 5,000 Years and Counting and Friedman spoke to him about it."

https://forward.com/culture/books/703555/the-jews-rob-kutner-five-thousand-years-and-counting/

For that minority of #Jews who voted to "Make America Grotesquely Awful", it's interesting to note that the two of the three world leaders that Red Don trashes on the regular—Sheinbaum of Mexico and Zelensky of Ukraine—are #Jewish.

Open your eyes.

Interesting that two of the most popular national leaders on Earth—Mexico's President #Sheinbaum and of course Ukraine's President #Zelensky—are Jewish.

It's a weird time we're living in. At a time when #antisemitism is on the rampage around the world, #Jewish leaders still rise. It's especially interesting in the case of Ukraine, which of course has a very problematic history with respect to the #Jews (see: Babyn Yar).