The Gofundme for Evan & his family is now live. All proceeds raised will be directed to Evan’s family to put towards efforts to bring Evan home, expenses, & to organizations that support the freedom of the press. Free Evan Gershkovich #IStandWithEvan gofundme.com/f/free-evan-ge…

"Almost nothing about studying the Holocaust points to 'hate' as an accurate or satisfactory way to describe the Nazi rise to power, the ghettoization of Jewish populations, and the initiation of mass murder ... 'hate' as a primary cause flatters us by avoiding complexity." 👏

had a very sweet time talking with Fulcrum Publishing about why we need writer-owned cooperative publishers (& more) for their Books Uncovered podcast fulcrumbooks.com/podcast/episod…

The best thing about "creative nonfiction"—which I consider a term* and a term only, not an entity, not a field, not a genre (sorry)—is its instructive capacity to induce hysterics among its avowed practitioners and its skeptics alike *a useful one! newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

The group behind the ‘end Jew hatred day’ resolution is…wait for it…End Jew Hatred. The org’s head is Brooke Goldstein, who is also: head of the Lawfare Project (a far-right pro-Israel legal advocacy org); a vocal Trump supporter; regular guest on Fox News, Newsmax, OAN. etc…

on the necessity of empathy & imagination for seeing history & the present more clearly, ++ some excellent resources👇

to put a finer point on it, i don't have a bed 👇

Hello from Odesa, Ukraine, friends. Yesterday, I was meeting friends, telling jokes, planning a poetry studio for refugee kids. At night, several huge explosions. Fire. In the morning, we learn: 3 people died & 13 were wounded due to Russian missiles. Thanks for listening.

In the first installment of our explainer on the current situation in Israel/Palestine, we respond to readers' questions about the Hamas attacks, the American and international response, the ongoing assault on Gaza, and more. jewishcurrents.org/the-hamas-atta…

Last Sunday the US's largest pro-Israeli Right lobby group, Christians United for Israel (CUFI), held a 'Night to Honor Israel' where they outlined their frightening agenda of belligerent & total war-- fueled by Islamophobic, anti-Palestinian & antisemitic End Times messianism/

100 days 10,000 Palestinian children killed

Powerful words by 102 years old philosopher Edgar Morin, one of France's most revered intellectual figures, as well as a Jewish WW2 resistant who fought as a lieutenant in De Gaulle's France combattante. Here are his words on Gaza: "I am both astonished

i'm in awe of this capacious conversation and its ethical, intellectual, historical, spiritual, communal commitments 💜 tinhouse.com/podcast/naomi-…

#LangCraftTalks kick-off with Miller Wolf Oberman, poet, author and director of Lang’s First-Year Writing program, hosted by fellow writer and faculty-member, Helen Betya Rubinstein. ✍️ SEPT. 17, 2024 12:30PM (EDT) Online Register: event.newschool.edu/milleroberman #NerdyLang #LiberalArts #TheNewSchool

"Rather than excoriate its main characters, the film replicates and even delights in those willful acts of ignorance": Contributing writer Helen Betya Rubinstein responds to Jonathan Shamir's review of The Zone of Interest jewishcurrents.org/letters/on-the…

To support faculty writers is a joy and an honor and it’s also very intimate, which means I rarely get to talk about it. So it was a huge pleasure to be in conversation with @katebcarp of @draftingthepast about my work with historians in particular 🙏 draftingthepast.com/podcast-episod…

Utter depravity. According to exit polls 80% of American Jews voted for Harris. We are waking up horrified for our country and our communities

BECAUSE SEX IS A STORY & SEX IS A SONG is a collection of five short stories - lyric fictions - narrating various forms of human connectivity. Author: Helen Betya Rubinstein Booklet, 54 pp, 7 x 5.25 in Language: English ISBN: 978-1-7375909-6-5 Published: December 5, 2022