Congress overwhelmingly on a bipartisan basis passed the Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act of 2018 in both the House and Senate. But the law isn’t being enforced. Here’s why: thehill.com/opinion/civil-…

Do you go to a Trad Egal or a Halachic Egal shul? I'd love to hear from you. It's for a story. Send me a DM!

60 years ago today, the Voting Rights Act became law thanks to the perseverance of civil rights activists. Today, our sacred right to vote remains under attack. We must protect our democracy and honor those who risked everything by passing the John R. Lewis Voting Rights

manifesto for an upcoming Yiddish (poetry) translation workshop

Traitors honor each other.

“The second an institution matters more than the people it serves, it no longer deserves to exist.” This was one of the first and most powerful lessons I learned when I began volunteering, and it’s a value that has struck with me and informed every step of my advocacy career. It

Me. Prime Minister, do you speak Hebrew? If so, why do you exclusively take softball interviews in Englisg from the foreign press, and none with the Israeli press? Perhaps they will ask the correct questions, for which you have no answers?

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Midrash Hazak: Torah Wisdom by 70 Over 70 (But Who's Counting?) is a collection of commentaries on the weekly Torah portion, written by our elders with all of their wisdom, grace, and power. Here's an excerpt for the commentary on this week's Torah portion, Va-etḥanan.

Trump who coined the antisemitic nickname “Schifty” assigns a guy who hung out with actual neo-Nazis to prosecute Adam Schiff for whatever and no one is saying anything because this is where we are

Weekend post offers ammo for a coming 'debate' vs neo-feudalists - which we're bound to lose due to bad polemical skills. The best defense of democracy is not 'fundamental values' but a pure, pragmatic fact: that it offers better governance and outcomes. davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-deba…

The harm is that if Trump can control the production of gov't stats, he can mask the effects of policies that are designed to benefit the oligarchs at the expense of the masses. Neoliberals are not allowed to critique oligarchs and thus cannot articulate this more serious harm.

The docs the Israel Defense Forces purports to prove Al Jazeera reporter Anas al Sharif was Hamas show he was a low ranking rocket commander until 6 years ago. It’s wildly thin for a targeted killing and would sentence to death any reporter who once served in his country’s military.

What do an egg, a square, and a key have in common? Ben Yehuda Press! We are proud to be launching three new poetry titles this month: Wu Wei Eats an Egg by Lucas Hirsch, translated from the Dutch by Donna Spruijt-Metz The Broken Heart is the Master Key by Baruch November

Trump's people at DHS are referencing here "Which Way, Western Man," a book by white supremacist William Gayley Simpson that was published by an American Neo-Nazi organization, the National Alliance. In the book, Simpson argued that Hitler was right and Jews must be killed.

Just to say: The same Bible they claim prohibits gay marriage (even though it doesn't, and likely talks about pedophilia), far clearly, in no uncertain terms, BANS REMARRYING YOUR FORMER WIFE after she has married someone else! (See Deuteronomy 24:2)

Limiting the right to vote is the stage that comes before abrogating the right to vote. politico.com/news/2025/08/1…

I designed a LEGO Maghen Abraham Synagogue in 🇱🇧 Beirut on BrickLink Studio. I couldn’t go, so I built a model. I spent years on it. Brick by brick on a screen, I tried to touch what my parents knew. Beirut once had around 17 synagogues and baté midrash; Maghen Abraham

7/ Among the various reasons that Netanyahu clings to power - beyond his being the sole saviour of Israel - is a little noticed fact. When he leaves office, we will be exposed to what he has done and that has not yet been revealed. And even knowing him, it will floor us.

Over 80 Orthodox rabbis – including chief rabbis past and present of several countries – signed a petition released on Tuesday urging Israel to address the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza and condemn settler violence in the West Bank. haaretz.com/israel-news/20…