I hope the city does apologize for this: forward.com/news/831956/...

The NYPD has never apologized for arresting lesbian activist Eve Adams a century ago on obscenity and disorderly conduct charges. Now Mayor Mamdani just might.

A serious run at building a new coalition to challenge Netanyahu in upcoming Israeli elections, led by Jews and Palestinians.

Satellite imagery shows the aftermath of Israeli army demolitions of hundreds of homes in West Bank refugee camps, carried out to make it easier for military vehicles to maneuver. From our partners at the Israeli newsroom Shomrim.

Why Abdul El-Sayed is making inroads with Jewish voters, including some who identify as Zionists.

Stealing from my colleague @keene.la: My mayor Muslim My soccer team Swiss My practice field Jewish Knicks in six?

Spectacular sunset tonight reveals Jupiter and Venus on a date together. A sweet way to close out the weekend.

Parade of Trains AND a beautiful beach day! Brighton joy.

I had a delightful last meal here with the Forward’s archivist a few weeks ago. Supposedly the Pearl Diner may get resuscitated as an upscale “real New York experience” kind of joint, as happens a lot these days. Does it matter?

NEW: An investigation by @thecity.nyc, based on a database of more than 1,200 lawsuits, shows that ICE agents in the field have seized Latinos in numbers that far exceed their share of the undocumented population.

The Park Slope Food Coop vote to boycott Israeli goods PASSES, 67%–31%, with 2% abstaining. 4,551 pro-boycott 2,083 anti-boycott (6,772 total present)

A proposal to ban Israeli products at the Park Slope Food Coop is now spilling over into the local congressional race, in an extremely Brooklyn saga that also features a sermon from an iconic local rabbi urging its defeat.

RIP Hampshire College. Not to neighboring Yiddish Book Center, fortunately.

panel from 2020, from a cartoon about time traveling Sparky(s)

@mollycrabapple.bsky.social is doing a book talk at the center for jewish history with @forward.com editor @alykatzz.bsky.social next month

Brad Lander now declares he opposes all U.S. aid for Israel, including for Iron Dome missile defense, after previously supporting defensive aid, citing human rights as he looks to unseat Rep. Dan Goldman, @jacobkornbluh.bsky.social reports exclusively in @forward.com.

A forceful rebuttal to Mahmoud Khalil's @forward.com interview, from a former Marine officer who saw Palestinians used as political pawns in Iraq and beyond. .

Mahmoud Khalil sat down with @forward.com for an extended interview because he wanted to talk to Jews, including those who see his Free Palestine movement as an existential threat. His message, take it or leave it: "I want to liberate everyone."

The Jewish left wrote the book more than a century ago on how to organize against tyranny, forming the Bund to fight back. @mollycrabapple.bsky.social's book on that history and how it resonates with the present comes out tomorrow. Crabapple talks here with Debbie Nathan about the Bund's legacy.

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Reserve Streisand effect. The more they know, the more they like it.

Mike Pence got totally owned here: Jewish plaintiffs won a ruling against Indiana's abortion ban, using the law he signed 11 years ago as governor to help evangelicals refuse to cater gay weddings and such. Now similar challenges could win in other red states. We tell the story at @forward.com.

The Nazi death camps were in Poland. Among other things, this allowed Holocaust revisionists years later to ask the misleading question, "How many death camps were there in Germany?" Same thing here, and additionally the Salvadorans can do things to prisoners that even ICE is afraid to do in the US.

Essential Holy Week reading from @miraefox.bsky.social

Every regulation is written in blood.

Mamdani will be meeting with local Republican player John Catsimatidis tomorrow afternoon. No press allowed, so you might as well read the transcript of the wild interview my NY Editorial Board colleagues and I did in December (just before the world knew him as "that guy from Marty Supreme").

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, 115 years ago tomorrow, galvanized a century's worth of workplace safety laws that are now getting shredded.

If you want to know, as I very much did, how the photographer got those stunning shots of people inside their apartments...it's as complex and ingenious as you might imagine.

The Catholic Church has a message for Holy Week: rebutting Carrie Prejean Boller and other conservatives who have gone down the antisemitism rabbit hole.

Tish James declines to fast-track the NYC public hospital system's takeover of a private hospital in Brooklyn that serves many Orthodox Jewish patients. @jacobkornbluh.bsky.social

Tell us a story—>Tulsa story, about aspirations to be not only the next Austin or Nashville, but also a magnet for Jews hunting for home. By @benyamincohen.bsky.social, reporting from the latest stop on his Holy Ground tour.

New York has started requiring foreign LLCs to tell the state who owns them! But! The state specifically exempts the filings from public disclosure under Freedom of Information Law. Which was evident when the bill was pending; I'm just reupping my outrage now that the law is in effect.

Now showing: Timothy Chalamet plays Walter Benjamin.

A microcosm of just how hard it is to build bridges toward peaceful coexistence in Israel, as told through shouts across a room in NYC of observant Jews committed to civil rights.

i love history that makes me hungry.

A delicious appreciation from @miraefox.bsky.social of oysters and their surprisingly central place in American Jewish cuisine.

A revealing and fair look at NYC's rent battle, including a landlord opening his books. One detail gets mentioned and then dropped as Mamdani's top tenant organizer spells out her social housing vision: as much as half of city revenue is property taxes.

"Politicians understand that uncritical support for Israel is no longer compatible with the Democratic mainstream" — @emilyctamkin.bsky.social on Gavin Newsom's "sort of an apartheid state" watershed moment.

Putting a target on the folks who brought the world the (entirely peaceful) Mitzvah Tank.

Come work with me at @forward.com! We're looking for a managing editor to work with our phenomenal team.

NEW: Over the past year, we've been collecting thousands of financial disclosure documents from across the Trump administration. Now we're making them searchable. Look up names, assets, former employers across 1,500+ Trump appointees and 3,000+ ethics documents.

Your morning reading on Reza Pahlavi, the scion offering to be Iran's transitional leader if the regime falls.

Beyond the threat Iran poses to Israel and its own people, Jews in Iran have been living in an impossible situation where the only way to survive is to genuflect to the regime. We posted this at @forward.com yesterday, before the strike began and ahead of Purim, which begins Monday night.

In the aftermath of Oct. 7, many rush to paint the pro-Palestinian movement in the U.S. as supporters of Hamas terrorism — often relying on tenuous claims about slogans and political platforms that didn't hold up to scrutiny. 🧵

Young adults are becoming more likely to tell pollsters that they see Hamas as a militant resistance group, rejecting the label "terrorist." But views also defy simple labels, @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social found in this look at the numbers.

WNBC says another 5-6 hours of snow to go. Central Park already at 15," per the NWS weather stations. Newark Airport has gotten 18" already. Long Island has gotten socked with between 18-22". x.com/NWSNewYorkNY...

Almost all Ethopian Jews in the U.S. arrived via Israel, and their ties have made them a target. Said one: “For a long time, I felt like that extra layer of being Black almost protected me, because people are scared of being called racist...I don’t think I have that extra armor anymore."

"The likelihood of the U.S. striking Iran is currently the top trending market on Polymarket, with $313 million wagered." From @miraefox.bsky.social

A Marty Supreme review as meant to be heard: in Yiddish (with English subtitles)

My colleague @talyazax.bsky.social checked in with sometime adversary/sometime friend Abe Foxman, the longtime past ADL leader, on the legacy of Jesse Jackson. Foxman said: "We have to learn that people can change their minds and hearts."