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I made a thing for 99PI! Listen to the long and sordid saga of the Morouns:

Please welcome our new head of the CDC, Belle Gibson

A century-old Zionist group is being rebooted — and wants Jews to 'fight back' on the street - Jewish Telegraphic Agency Betar US is going after pro-Palestinian activists — and also pro-Israel advocates whose tactics it deems overly timid.

I went long on the return of Betar, and the effects of their scorched-earth street and social media campaign against anyone even slightly to their left on Israel. www.jta.org/2025/02/11/u...

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A Front-Row Seat to Polarization Since Oct. 7, journalists for the American Jewish press have watched their community fracture while wondering how—or even if—they can put back the pieces.

Enjoyed being interviewed for this CJR story about the post-Oct 7 challenges of the Jewish press, alongside @emilyctamkin.bsky.social and other smart people www.cjr.org/world/front-...

Newspaper headline: “Dictionary Shortage in Library Result of Cross-Word Puzzle Craze”

100 years ago libraries were running out of dictionaries because so many people were checking them out to do crossword puzzles, so New York ruled they could be used for “legitimate purposes” only

Rebecca Makkai, whose grandfather drafted a Nazi-era antisemitic law, is writing a novel about the rise of fascism - Jewish Telegraphic Agency The author of "The Great Believers" has joined in an effort to fight antisemitism and also publicly criticized Israel.

Wrote about some Rebecca Makkai Holocaust discourse www.jta.org/2024/12/20/c...

(Gen Z asking for donations) it’s giving Tuesday

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Joshmentum: Across the United States, voters are embracing the Jewish Josh - Jewish Telegraphic Agency With Josh Stein becoming governor and Josh Gottheimer in the running, statehouses are seeing unprecedented levels of Josh.

Love to contribute to The Political Discourse www.jta.org/2024/11/22/p...