"“God’s name is being desecrated through our sins,” Rabbi Amital wrote nearly five decades ago. “Is it possible to remain silent?!” Today, his challenge tragically rings just as true." My words in the Forward today (appropriately on Rav Amital’s yahrtzeit) forward.com/opinion/7575...

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you. It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

“Secret police” are your words, not mine. Seems like you’ve been giving them a lot of thought. Unlike NYPD, your agents don’t identify themselves & wear masks that cover their faces. Now they ignore judges’ rulings, too. What law enforcement agents are supposed to uphold … is the rule of law.

This violence does nothing to help the Palestinian cause, but will raise tensions in NY and undermine the work being done to advance peace in Israel & Palestine. This senseless, antisemitic attack contributes to growing fears in Jewish communities in NY & throughout the country. 2/4

We are shocked by the vile, antisemitic attack last night outside the AJC event at the Capitol Jewish Museum in Washington D.C. 1/4

Supporting hostages & supporting 1st amendment is not either/or choice. Nor does one have to agree w/what a person says to believe they have right to say it--and to not be deported. Anyone committed to democracy & the Jewish people must reject such binaries. jewishinsider.com/2025/05/dan-...

Correct from the president of Harvard www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...

JFNA and Eric Fingerhut attacking a statement from the Conservative & Reform movements & others, organized by JCPA, as not “mainstream”…. tells me that JFNA in fact is outside the mainstream. This attack inspired me to make a gift to JCPA. Join me: jewishpublicaffairs.org/donate/

Did the president come out with strong condemnation of this attack on a Jewish governor on the first night of Pass– what’s that? He gave a brief statement claiming the guy wasn’t a “Trump fan”? And then his admin went back to threatening students over “antisemitism”? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

"I don't know how to read a story of deliverance from an unjust system w/o thinking of how my own country is...attempting to expel someone for their 'expected beliefs,' or of how this is being done in the name of Jewish safety" For @forward.com on Moses & Mahmoud Khalil forward.com/opinion/7119...

I hope that at every single seder, as we contemplate and celebrate our ancient liberation story, we draw connections between what is being done in our names and what was historically done to us. None of this is about Jewish safety, none of this is okay.

NYJA was proud to join this effort. May we go into Passover thinking about liberation for all people, and each of our roles in that.

NO THANK YOU, Marco. apnews.com/article/mahm...

(🧵1/3) DHS can now deny immigration benefits -- including applying for visas and lawful residency -- based on whether or not the current administration thinks your social media activity aligns with *their* interpretation of antisemitism.

BREAKING: The Trump administration will begin screening immigrants’ social media for “antisemitism.” This will NOT fight antisemitism. This is simply using Jews as an excuse to move a cruel, anti-immigrant, authoritarian agenda. We refuse to be used this way. www.uscis.gov/newsroom/new...

Tonight we learned that it was indeed Andry, the gay man sent to El Salvador because of his “mom” and “dad” tattoos, who an American journalist saw sobbing as guards slapped him repeatedly and shaved his head. He is an innocent. And Trump sent him to a torture prison. Bring them back!

Hands off! NYC

It has been two weeks since a Georgia woman was arrested for her miscarriage, and not one major national outlet has covered the story

I am a proud Ohioan and stick up for my state constantly. Bernie Moreno does not represent the good in the Buckeye state. The fact that he has the audacity to call the highest ranking Jewish politician ( @schumer.senate.gov) fuhrer is beyond disgusting and antisemitic. All should condemn this.

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

Real ones thought about the Stackhouse filibuster episode all day. cc @bradleywhitford.bsky.social

People on here who are poo-pooing Booker underestimate the power of storytelling in politics.

can not believe new york times pitchbot is on blue sky this place is going places i can feel it

Harvard’s president is okay with the Trump admin placing our community at the tip of its authoritarian spear, making us less safe by setting us up as scapegoats. They don’t know how to combat antisemitism, and they don’t actually care about doing so.

Oh my god. They deported a man who an immigration judge had declared was "more likely than not" to face persecution in El Salvador ... to El Salvador, during the big March 15 AEA flights! They outright admit it! Yet the Trump admin's response to a court is basically "oops, well, no take backsies."

Here’s the thing: nothing Harvard does matters, unless it’s a total capitulation to Trump — because for him this is not actually about fighting antisemitism. It’s about exploiting real, legitimate concerns about antisemitism to gut our educational institutions and our democracy.

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

As much as we're seeing cowardice, we should also recognize bravery when it appears. Jeffrey Goldberg knew very well he may be locked up for publishing what he put out, and it's a big deal he did what he was supposed to. It may seem like the "minimum" to some, but today the minimum is exceptional.

The only piece of actual wisdom I have ever learned about US politics is "Never believe something is too stupid to happen."

A midwife has been arrested on felony abortion charges in Texas. She faces up to 20 years in prison. jessica.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.

Can’t stop screaming this from the rooftops: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/how-... Don’t let anyone tell you this is normal.

"Multiple things can be true at the same time. We're facing real antisemitism....That doesn't mean that the very real fears & pains of the Jewish community should be exploited to undercut civil liberties, rule of law, and our democratic values." - @amyspitalnick.bsky.social on @msnbc.com

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.

Our statement yesterday:

There's no reason that this should surprise anyone.

Proud to be quoted in his excellent, important piece. Jewish safety does not, cannot rely on an erosion of civil liberties.

NYJA’s statement on Mahmoud Khalil, and the dangerous precedent this sets.

The general process (because of course there are exceptions) is that DHS has to file a Notice to Appear (a bit like an indictment) in immigration court, alleging that the person is removable for having violated a specific provision of immigration law. ICE bears the burden of proving removability.

It is patently ridiculous and also antisemitic to demand that Jews disavow Israel (where btw half the Jewish population of the world lives) in order to be part of coalitions, and to exclude the vast majority of Jews from a rally against, of all things, Nazis.(1/2) www.cincinnati.com/story/opinio...

Her entire testimony and answers to their questions is worth a listen. Be proud, @jstreetu.bsky.social and Meirav!

Thank goodness for Kevin’s voice today. We’re 3 minutes into this hearing and it’s already weaponizing antisemitism to go after “un-American” students. Tune in for Kevin!

I care less about political pontificating about how Trump did tonight, and more that he keeps appointing avowed extremists to the federal government. This is a very particular antisemitic conspiracy theory really only prevalent among explicit neo-Nazis.

That’s right, thank you BRIGHTON BEACH

No Other Land Co-Director Yuval Abraham: "The foreign policy in this country is helping to block this path. Why? Can't you see that we are intertwined? There is another way. It's not too late for life, for the living. There is no other way."

In recalling all the abusive behavior, please don't sleep on the fact that Cuomo was ALSO corrupt, dishonest and bad at his job!

New York women say #HellNoCuomo #NoMasCuomo

Re one day economic boycott today: join me in actually *never* shopping from Amazon and Walmart!! In truth, I get a friend to buy me something necessary on Prime maybe once a year, and it’s…not even noticeable to me anymore. www.ravenbookstore.com/how-resist-a...

Anneliese was my masters thesis advisor at Kings College. She’s brilliant. She rose in the ranks of Labour and now has resigned as a result of a global trend our government started. For shame.

the most surprising and disappointing aspect of becoming a global health philanthropist is the existence of an opposition team