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Photo by Judy Goldstein On March 8th 2025, Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent resident of the U.S., was detained by ICE. He had committed no crime, only exercising his free speech as one of the primary organizers of pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University. The day before his detention, President Trump cut $400 million in funding to […]
Note: These poems are in the same order in all languages, Ladino transliteration, Ladino, and English. It was in the author’s best intention to capture the musicality, tone, and rhyme of each poem in the Ladino-English translation. The Sea (לה מאר) la mar ke me yama, viene de aze […]
October 8: The Fight for the Soul of America was released on March 14th in theaters nationwide. The film chronicles an obtusely one-sided narrative of the rise of antisemitism on social media and US American college campuses in the aftermath of the Al-Aqsa Flood attacks. Against a backdrop of sinister orchestral music and b-roll from […]
Photo courtesy of Shay Horse, 30 April 2024. UCLA is silencing the voices of Jewish students who are critical of Israel, an Israeli-American student who is suing the university said Thursday. Binyamin Moryosef, a fourth-year English major at UCLA is among more than thirty students, faculty, and community members who have filed a lawsuit against […]
BREAKING NEWS: United States Ambassador to Israel Nominee Mike Huckabee revealed during his confirmation hearing that he’s undergone an adult circumcision. When asked what qualified the former Governor of Arkansas to serve the position, he stated “As Ambassador, my priority is to reinstate Judeo-Christian values across the holy land. To do that, I must align […]
At this point, it shouldn’t be surprising. Just weeks after the ADL defended Elon Musk’s Nazi salute at Donald Trump’s inauguration, Steve Bannon throws up what looks like a Nazi salute at CPAC. And then, right on cue, here comes The Free Press—the fearless, supposed bastion of “free thinking” launched by Bari Weiss—publishing an article […]
Airports make me cry now. As soon as I step foot in Ben Gurion to leave, something in me gives, and the floodgates are opened to so many of the thoughts and feelings I instinctively tamp down on in my day-to-day life. I have traveled quite a bit this past year. To visit colleges in […]
“Yiddishland is everywhere.” This is what Chaia, (she/her), creator of kleztronica – a fusion of klezmer and techno, told me a few weeks after I attended the Yiddish NY Festival Afterparty, the event – described as “where archival Yiddish and klezmer samples combine with racing electronic grooves, drag, disco, and so much more!” – […]
On January 29th, Meta platforms agreed to pay President Donald Trump $25 million to settle a lawsuit over “indefinitely” banning him from Facebook and Instagram following the January 6 Capitol Attack in 2021. At the time, Mark Zuckerberg claimed that “the risk” of keeping Trump’s accounts active as he spread misinformation in regards to the […]
A few years ago, author Shalom Auslander took a weight loss drug so poisonous that later, when he was hospitalized, doctors suspected he had tried to kill himself. Auslander claimed that he hadn’t, but the question remained, what made him hate himself enough to take such a dangerous substance? The answer is the title of […]