Come for the hot takes on French colonial maneuvers, stay for the rabbi hands 🙌🏻 thanks for having me @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social!!

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My latest in @haaretzcom.bsky.social Not 'hasbara failure' to seek justice for Palestinians sexually abused by IDF soldiers www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

Netanyahu is simply making this up. Check out any poll over the last 2 years. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

We built an incredible bloc that passed resolutions ranging from support for liberal Jewish institutions within Israel, to a state commission of inquiry into October 7th, to the blockage of illegal settlement activity in Gaza and the West Bank. This is where most Diaspora Jews *are.*

We just prevented the World Zionist Organization from funding any Israeli settlement in Gaza. The Meretz-backed union at the World Zionist Congress ran this resolution, and I’m beyond proud of @partners4israel.bsky.social and @hatikvahslate.bsky.social right now! THIS is why we stay in the room.

Imagine having such a brittle and venomous worldview that you have this kind of reaction to the words “peace” and “diplomacy,” or go after my board member and THE Sabbath Queen. Get real.

Einav Zangauker and other hostage family members are facing a smear campaign backed by Netanyahu, who'd like them all to just disappear and stop calling for accountability via a state commission of inquiry to investigate the failures of October 7. We stand with #WeAreAllHostages. You're Not Alone!

How dare you not hope. There’s going to be years more of hurdles, and the end goal is not only to get the hostages home. People were going practically door to door in northern Gaza to spread the news because there’s no internet/WiFi there. Several people died of starvation in Gaza yesterday. 1/x

Plurality of Jewish Americans (48%) disapproves of Israeli government's military action in Gaza; 61% say it's committing war crimes there; 39% say it's committing a genocide; 59% say it's not doing enough to allow food in. Major new @washingtonpost.com poll. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I had just been reflecting with a colleague a few days ago about the shooting in Halle on Yom Kippur six years ago, and this morning arrived to lead services and heard the news of this terrible antisemitic attack in Manchester. Seeing the image of blood on Rabbi Walker’s kittel is chilling. No more.

WASHINGTON DC - THIS MORNING at 9am - as Netanyahu comes to the White House We'll meet up at the corner of 17th and Pennsylvania

Hosted by: @truahrabbis.bsky.social @rabbijilljacobs.bsky.social Combatants for Peace @newisraelfund.bsky.social @newjewishnarrative.bsky.social Interact Israelis for Peace @giligetz.bsky.social Lab Shul Partners for Progressive Israel @mhughesrob.bsky.social

This guide is the result of a lot of careful research, soul-searching, and deep listening. This conversation is so painful for Jewish communities, and our discomfort can’t override the reality of what is happening in Gaza.

This kind of zero-sum thinking makes for good clickbait 🙄 but this is a historic moment for Palestinians AND Israelis. This recognition means an international commitment to an end to Hamas in power in Gaza, self-determination for Israelis and Palestinians alike, and human rights for all.

My former teacher R’ Avidan is no stranger to sudden arrest and police violence— he founded a small NGO called Yanshoof, dedicated to creating moral limits on Israel’s international arms sales. Bibi is afraid of the shofar, of a call to accountability? Clearly.

Today in Haaretz: there will be no successful movement for democracy in Israel without Palestinians— not just at the table, but at the center. www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

Netanyahu has abandoned the hostages, say hostage families, who vow to occupy the space in front of his residence and host daily mass rallies "until he fulfills the will of the people – the immediate return of all hostages and the end of the war." #BringThemAllHomeNow www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Is the UN a perfect body? Absolutely not. Is this a powerful step forward for international recognition of the rights of Palestinians and Israelis? ABSOLUTELY YES More on this from yours truly and Macron’s I-P Special Envoy Ofer Bronchtein here: youtu.be/6g5YD_si-G0?...

Once a month or 2, Life is a Sacred Text House of Study folx submit Ask the Rabbi qs --anything, the wild gamut of things -- & these days a *bunch* of us answer. It's so fun. w/@rabbibecky.bsky.social @ravmike.bsky.social @rabbimegan.bsky.social @mhughesrob.bsky.social, me + 3 more smarty pantses

NYC - TOMORROW, Sept. 11! Join us, our friends at @smolemunius.bsky.social, and others for this in-person (no livestream) conversation with peace and Arab-Jewish partnership champion, MK Ayman Odeh. Register: www.smolemunius.com/events/mk-ay...

Continuing to hold my breath with anxiety in the wake of yesterday’s strike in Doha. There’s no way forward except to seal a deal for a full hostage exchange and an end to military action in Gaza. The lives of civilians must be more valuable than this. #AllforAll #RightNow

By our board member, Sam Fleischacker, who writes: What could seem like low-level settler harassment in the West Bank is actually just the constant drumbeat of Jewish domination, a la Ben-Gvir, and "just as effective at ethnic cleansing as the war in Gaza". www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/27/o...

My recent review of Mohammed Omar Almoghayer’s new book, “On the Pleasures of Living in Gaza.”

"Enough of Starvation. Enough of War" - Saturday, 8/23, 4:30pm Israel/Palestine time, Arab-Jewish protest march. Starting at Dizengoff Circle, Tel Aviv. If you're in the Land (and even if you're not), we encourage you to raise your voice.

Mass devastation at the hands of the Israeli government is continuing in Gaza. (1/3)

By a nearly 2 to 1 majority, Americans want to Recognize Palestine Now! It's time to #RecognizePalestine. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Kudos #Australia! Recognition of a Palestinian state is not a ‘reward’ for Hamas after October 7 - it's a needed recognition of the Palestinian people’s equal right to self-determination alongside Israel. and part of a political solution. apnews.com/article/aust...

This Thursday, I’m privileged to be in conversation with Ofer Bronchtein, French President Emmanuel Macron’s Envoy on Israeli and Palestinian affairs, and organizer of the recent UN level conversations on Palestinian statehood. Please join us!

#Jews calling 4 an end to the #starvation in #Gaza was a watershed event. Comments from a range of people, including #RuthMessinger and @mhughesrob.bsky.social of @partners4israel.bsky.social to @heyitsmurad.bsky.social and @motazazaiza.bsky.social. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025... #JusticeforAwdah

Our statement condemning Netanyahu's disastrous Gaza reoccupation plan. Also on our website: www.progressiveisrael.org/statement-di...

As @partners4israel.bsky.social, we believe it’s past time to recognize a Palestinian state alongside Israel. If we feel connection and relationship and pain and love for this place and its peoples, that connection and relationship obligates us to raise our voices and say: enough is enough.

Gaza, says R' @mhughesrob.bsky.social, is now experiencing a a “worst-case scenario of famine", as described by the IPC – the integrated Food Security Phase Classification organization that provides intergovernmental analysis of food security and nutrition analysis all over the world.

It’s beyond time for the US to invest in peacebuilding in Israel & Palestine, not in selling weapons that are specifically used to cause massive harm for military offensives. Every Israeli and Palestinian deserves safety and freedom, not more war. www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releas...

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As long as Netanyahu allows this "Jewish Heritage Minister" (perish the thought!) to be a member of his government, then he represents that government and his remarks regarding an official policy of total erasure should be taken literally and seriously. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Rümeysa’s firsthand account of her experience in an ICE detention center sheds much needed light on how ICE is treating people in their custody. I commend Rümeysa for her resilience and powerful essay. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...

Sometimes parenting is making big decisions about values or co-regulating through a tantrum, but for some reason this weekend it’s looked like hours spent doing a bad Judy Garland impersonation because kiddo will only respond if I “do the Dorothy voice”

I am so, so proud of the way we’re organizing and standing up for human rights at @partners4israel.bsky.social right now, and so heartbroken for the daily horror we’re witnessing in Gaza.

My heart is heavy with the news of Karen Diamond’s passing — may her memory be for a blessing, and the work of her life celebrated. Beyond awful. www.dailycamera.com/2025/06/30/w...

Proud to be one of 700+ rabbis and the leader of an organization making it clear: people in Gaza need immediate, safe, reliable food aid. #ceasefirenow #bringthemhome

Shameful. Humanitarian aid to civilians is an obligation, not a political football. There were well established aid networks with minimal diversion issues in Gaza already operating, but the Israeli gov’t has elected not to use (or even defund!) them. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

TOMORROW, 6/25, 12:30pm ET. Register @ us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... for this expert briefing with Prof Yossi Mekelberg of the renowned thinktank, Chatham House- on what transpired and what lies ahead. Q&A with the audience will follow an opening discussion with our ED, R' @mhughesrob.bsky.social.

“MK Odeh is a man of peace in every fiber of his being. He was born to promote peace between the two peoples. He is among the few in the current Knesset who have emphasized both peoples' rights to a state, to dignity, peace and security.” www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

This kind of media analysis belies the millions of “incentives” to stop: civilians spending the night in shelters in Israel, Iran, and the West Bank; millions of starving Gazans; the casual cruelty of these regimes who care so little for their peoples. Diplomacy Now.

War Has No Winners. We urge all parties to recommit to a diplomatic path forward - even, especially, now. Our response to Israel's attack on Iran is on our website. www.progressiveisrael.org/june-2025-ir...

Eid and Awdah must be allowed into the US!

The dream team!

THIS THURSDAY, JUNE 12 - two virtual screening times, plus live Q&A after each with director Stephen Apkon and members of the inspirational Combatants for Peace! "There Is Another Way" is a documentary that demonstrates the power of choosing nonviolence. Tkts: watch.eventive.org/thereisanoth...