Mr Nobody vs. Putin! Award-winning documentary about civil disobedience, censorship, and the personal costs of speaking the truth in an authoritarian regime. 👇 Mr. Nobody mod Putin | DRTV dr.dk/drtv/saeson/mr…

I just met a remarkable man whose caring and courage have produced a must-see film, "Mr Nobody Against Putin". Pavel "Pasha" Talankin documented two years of everyday life in the small town of Karabash, where he worked at a school. Plain, horrific reality of Putin's Russia.

Do what you can to find and view this incredible and damning film. I again commend Pasha for his bravery, knowing as he did that his head would be on the chopping block just for recording the truth. Trailer is here: youtube.com/watch?v=dB1G3b…

Horrific. Ethnic cleansing of Jews from Middle Eastern countries is a crime and a tragedy.

A jury took just 17 minutes to find Jamie Michael “not guilty”. “Thank God for the jury,” Jamie told Allison Pearson from his home in Wales. “I honestly think if I hadn’t had those normal people to basically say, ‘You’ve got to be joking, no way did this guy do anything wrong,’

"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking (that) makes what we read ours." -John Locke-Reading, 'Of the Conduct of the Understanding' 1706

An alleged fraud of funds exceeding a billion dollars was taken from poor families, children, and the disabled, as the government ignored warnings for years. So, what is missing to make this news? Apparently a Republican. foxnews.com/media/abc-nbc-…

🚨 BREAKING: A Brooklyn middle school principal just blocked a Holocaust survivor from speaking to students because he is a proud Jew who supports Israel. MS 447 Principal Arin Rusch told a parent that survivor Sami Steigmann’s “messages around Israel and Palestine” made him

.CNN's "Year in Pictures" is full of images of Palestinian victims. But CNN chose to show Israeli hostage Emily Damari in bed rather than iconic images of her being released in what it falsely calls a "hostage exchange." Note to CNN: Palestinian prisoners are not hostages.

Secretary Rubio on Radical Islam: “That’s a clear and imminent threat to the world and to the broader West, but especially the United States who they identify as the chief source of evil on the planet.” Secretary Marco Rubio

"People’s opinions are mainly designed to make them feel comfortable; truth, for most people is a secondary consideration." — Bertrand Russell

Paris cancels New Years Eve concert over ‘security concerns.’ The French capital has cancelled its traditional New Year’s Eve concert on the Champs-Élysées, where 1 million people were expected to attend. It comes after France bolstered security at Christmas markets over

"The event was done in coordination with the Korean community. I was very shaken up. The Koreans in the group were even more shaken up than we were and said to us, ‘So this is what you experience?’" jewishjournal.com/community/3853…

I invite you all to join me for Alta Journal's California Book Club discussion of ON GOLD MOUNTAIN. This virtual event will take place on 12/18 at 5:00 PT. Check out all the fun stuff here: bit.ly/4pPxoIX

Me: I try to look at data and trends rather than headlines, because headlines can give you a misleading picture of the state of the world. Something goes wrong every day — that’s guaranteed — and if you just look at something goes wrong and say, oh, things are getting worse, you

Does this nice statement mean you might actually enforce laws against violent bigots who have repeatedly attacked Jews - without consequences- during the Bass term? Would it be naive to dwell in this possibility that you have decided that Jewish lives matter too?

Without freedom of speech, the West will fall

🚨 SHE WAS KICKED OUT OF UBER FOR BEING JEWISH. 🚨 Miriam Mattova, a Jewish model and former Miss Slovakia, was tossed out of an Uber in the middle of the night in Toronto after she mentioned Israel on FaceTime. The driver slammed the brakes and said: 👉 “I don’t drive Jewish

Elon Musk “If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” — George Washington

At elite universities, 1/5 of students are registered as "disabled." (Fits my experience: accommodating students who claim extra time or special rooms for exams is a routine part of teaching. I meet in my office with charming, voluble, successful students who slip in, "I'm