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."

Storm in the romance world.

Do read @louiskeene.bsky.social's profile of a DSA city council member who is a serious contender to be the next mayor of LA — and taking a different approach from the group and NYC's Zohran Mamdani when it comes to Israel.

I’ve changed publications but am still on Inside City Hall @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social occasional Wednesday eves. Tonight around 7:40 and again at 11:40, Gerson Borrero, @errollouis.bsky.social and I talk Mamdani’s tax gambit, rent freeze prospects and Jesse Jackson. TIL it streams on YouTube!

Mimouna is a Moroccan celebration in which Muslims bring Jews flour and fixings for a post-Passover kitchen reboot. Honoring it on campus is just one of the ways students are finding what they have in common. .

Why is Frederick Wiseman so revered? There’s no substitute for watching his works, but for now read Dan Friedman’s appreciation.

My colleague @jacobkornbluh.bsky.social got the first interview with @phylisawisdom.bsky.social, Mamdani's appointee as antisemitism watchdog. See what she said.

"At points the rabbis prophesize all sorts of ills to come out of bad sex (which includes, variously, sex both standing up and sitting down), but they also have some pretty solid advice." As related by @miraefox.bsky.social

The longtime director of the ADL’s Center on Extremism — which tracks this kind of thing on social media — left last month to work for another watchdog group that has been deeply critical of the ADL’s political shift

This disinformation about the Canadian mass shooter circulated widely (including on a syndicated post @forward.com published and has since unpublished) before the ADL retracted it. This is from the nation's leading antisemitism watchdog.

Important analysis from @miraefox.bsky.social on what now-ex-Trump religious liberty panelist Carrie Prejean Boller's declaration against Zionism portends: a Catholic front in the burgeoning right-wing coalition opposing Israel.

Ice Jewish girl from Manhattan! Kamyrn Lute is making her Olympic debut this week on the U.S. speed skating team.

A very handy rundown of the issues looming as Trump and Bibi meet at the White House today.

The longtime Jewish love affair with Latin music lives on in the Bad Bunny halftime show.

Forward columnist Dan Perry on the collapse of "Zionism": "What I do not accept is the mutated version of Zionism that equates Jewish self-determination with permanent and non-democratic domination over another people."

It's marketing. It's art. It's Manischewitz.

I want to see these zines! Produced in the Netherlands in hiding during WWII and resurfaced on the Upper West Side.

The crowded Jersey congressional primary field is not unlike the NYC mayoral primary with its ranked-choice voting: it gives an edge to well-organized insurgents, Mamdani in NY and Mejia in NJ.

Important context on the NJ Democratic primary for the congressional seat vacated by the new governor: dark money tied to the Israel hardliner lobby could decide the race in favor of the lefty candidate. forward.com/opinion/8024...

He attaches teeny tiny GPS and mics to the bats. 🦇❤️

I appeared on @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social today to talk about recent antisemitic incidents in NYC and Mayor Mamdani's response to them.

As first seen in @forward.com: Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed a new head of the Mayor's Office to Combat Antisemitism. From @jacobkornbluh.bsky.social

Jumping in the ocean in Brooklyn on New Year’s Day may have left me shiveringly wet and prey for a respiratory infection I am still recovering from, but it was excellent preparation for the current cold wave. It’s all cozy from here.

Yes, @jacobkornbluh.bsky.social is all this and more. What a privilege to now work with him.

Happy Fugs Day! Fab fest happening this afternoon at the East Village public library (details in alt text).