Raphael (Rafi) Lasar

Mazel Tov.

America in Black and White America in Black and White

I wrote a short piece for Mr Beller’s Neighborhood. It’s about racism then and now, how not much has really changed, and maybe coming to terms as a white person.

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ווי עס דאַרף צו זײַן!

ער מאַכט זיך נישט וויסנדיק ווי אַ געהעריקער אינטעליגענץ.

@ms.now, can we agree that Tulsi Gabbard was not merely “seen” at the Fulton County voter office FBI raid?

She was fully and demonstrably there.

He features prominently in @rachelcockerell.bsky.social’s book, Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land that deals with, among other projects, the Galveston Movement. A fine, captivating, and informative book full of fascinating characters.

Emily, your words are measured but spot on. I, less eloquently would say that if the story of Anne Frank can’t be made universal, then really what the fuck is the point of ever bringing it up at all? It is a tragedy that BELONGS to us as Jews, but to SHARE too.

Somewhere Talmud must back this up.

Emily, your words are measured but spot on. I, less eloquently would say that if the story of Anne Frank can’t be made universal, then really what the fuck is the point of ever bringing it up at all? It is a tragedy that BELONGS to us as Jews, but to SHARE too.

Somewhere Talmud must back this up.

ביסט אַ קלוגער.

כ׳האָב קיינמאָל נישט אַרײַנגעטאָן מאַרמײַט אָדער וועגעמײַט אין אַ רעצעפּט, כאָטש שמיר איך ביידע אָפֿט אויף טאָסט. עפּעס וואָס איך דאַרף פּרוּוון. אַ דאַנק.

שייך צום סאַזאָן איז דער אויסדרוק פֿון @arunviswanath.bsky.socialס איבערזעצונג פֿון הערי פּאָטער אין וועלכן עפּעס איז, ״גרינג ווי עסן אַ לאַטקע״, עפּעס איך האָב גלײַך איצט געטאָן. אָט ס׳איז צו גרינג אָבער יאָ געשמאַק.

מיר האָבן אויכעט אָנגעזונדן די לײַכטערס אָבער איך האָב קיין מאָל נישט געהערט פֿון דעם שפּיל. כ׳האָב אָבער געמאַכט לאַטקעס פֿונעם רעצעפּט פֿון רוס & טעכטערס קאָכבוך. אַ פֿרייליכן חנוכּה.

But rent controlled. 😉

טעם גן-עדן איז צווישן מײַנע באַליבסטע אויסדרוקן.

סוועטער-שמעטער, פֿע! כ׳פֿאַרבענק זיך נאָר אויף 70 גראַד און העכער.

Shtarkt zikh talmidim, kumt es Harbst Lid.

@weeknightmsnbc.bsky.social watching you chum it up with Manchin, we’re reminded why Melissa Harris Perry, Tiffany Cross, and Joy Reid are no longer on MSNBC.

Emily, I completely agree with your assessment. Thank you for putting it to words clearly and succinctly.

@morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social one does not partner with Nazis. If you don’t want to call the Trump admin Nazis, come up with a nicer term, fine. But nothing this admin does is about solving American’s problems. It is about serving Trump’s ego and making the country less free.

@msnbc.com is there a reason you insist on your presenters referring to the “bill” by Trump’s preferred name rather than something official when we know it is anything but what he and his toadies call it? It’s almost as if secretly you’re on his side.

איך האָב אַ פֿעדערפֿרײַנדקע וואָס שטאַמט פֿון פּוילן, נישט קיין יידענע, וואָס האָט אַנגעשריבן אַ געשיכטע פֿון די יידישע קהילה פֿון איר שטך. זי האָט מיר אַן עקסעמפּלאַר געשיקט מיט אַן אײַנשריפֿט. איך וויין פֿון פֿרייד. וואָלט געווען עפּעס ענלעך וועגן דער באָבעס שטעטל, וויגאָדאַ, פוילן.

Golde, Tevye’s wife in the original Yiddish stories by Sholem Aleichem that Fiddler on the Roof is based on, during a discussion about the universe quips, “better my borscht and no universe than a universe without my borscht”. That’s confidence, that’s a heroine.

Sorry, just being a one-dicked human.

I didn’t know states have mayors.

It feels like when actual violence is involved it doesn’t really matter if the motivation is “merely” anti Zionism or out and out antisemitism. I’m going to a big outdoor Jewish event in upstate New York on Sunday. The police presence last year was large, I can only imagine what it’ll be this year.

@drannieandrews.com I live in New Jersey but just sent you $25. Great ads and great interview with Ali Velshi. Hope you can help flip the senate.

Terribly sad. I studied photography briefly before realizing I had no talent for it. His work moved me.

Fair enough.

Would you elaborate?

Can you elaborate?