Gershom Gorenberg גרשום גורנברג
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Gershom Gorenberg גרשום גורנברג
@gershomg.bsky.social
Jerusalemite.
Contributing Writer, The Atlantic.
Author, "War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East"
Lecture contact info at http://tinyurl.com/ggersh
Pinned
"A masterpiece of scholarship & synthesis that also reads like a thriller... it will remind readers of a cloak-and-dagger tale by John Le Carré..."
-@washingtonpost @BookWorld on #WarOfShadows
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Review | Forgotten spies who fought the Nazis in the Middle East
Gershom Gorenberg reveals the intelligence campaign that shaped the war and the region.
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A rave review from Broadway Weekly for "November 4," which opened Monday night in Washington DC
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Review: NOVEMBER 4 at Voices Festival Productions
The world première of November 4 has opened just after the 30th anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on November 4, 1995. It is a mitzvah that there are now no long...
www.broadwayworld.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
“The Sea," winner of the Ophir Prize for best Israeli film, has finally opened in theaters around Israel. It's a superb story of a Palestinian boy who crosses into Israel illegally.
November 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Workers from @sbworkersunited.org put their bodies on the line today, shutting down Starbucks' distribution center in York, PA, the largest in the US

Stand in solidarity with these working-class heroes, DON'T BUY STARBUCKS ANYWHERE UNTIL THEY WIN THEIR STRIKE
November 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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The point of having a standards editor is that you bring in a skilled, disinterested person to read or watch a story and point out possible bias, errors and lapses.

The actual story editors can miss those things because they're so closely tied to the production and reporting of the piece.
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Update: In 3 recent editorials, WaPo failed to disclose owner Jeff Bezos's interest in the matter under discussion.

WaPo added one disclosure after @bgrueskin.bsky.social called it out.

Two weeks after my story, the other two editorials still have none. And the paper still won't say why
'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
www.npr.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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This is about right…
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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MAGA’s Mask-Off Moment.. such an important piece and reminder we have obligation to police fascism wherever it appears open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
MAGA’s Mask-Off Moment
What the Nick Fuentes fiasco reveals about modern conservatism
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Wealth taxes !!!
No human being needs $1 billion, much less $1 trillion.
Tax the damn rich.
November 7, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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No human being needs $1 billion, much less $1 trillion.
Tax the damn rich.
November 7, 2025 at 1:08 AM
No human being needs $1 billion, much less $1 trillion.
Tax the damn rich.
November 7, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Catholic bishops, even some aligned with the White House, are now speaking out forcefully against the Trump administration's policies about immigrants, respect for Native Americans and the Army's cancellation of support for uniformed priests www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Bishops With Ties to Trump Commission Criticize Treatment of Immigrants
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
So another source of independent journalism in America is shut down.
November 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
November 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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ככל שמתקדמת החקירה הנגדית, רה"מ הנאשם נתניהו הולך ומסתבך ברשת הגרסאות הסותרות שטווה. ככל שגוברת מצוקתו מחריף הלחץ לסיכול ניהולו התקין של המשפט: נתניהו קילל את השוטרים, דוברו עופר גולן הפריע למהלך המשפט, עורך-דינו עלב בתובע והתחצף לשופטים, מחוץ לאולם שוב ארב בריון לעיתונאים www.the7eye.org.il/567296
משפט המו
ככל שמתקדמת החקירה הנגדית, רה
www.the7eye.org.il
November 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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This has always seemed like the key issue. Bezos and Lewis, understandably, want the Post to be profitable. But the actions they've taken with Opinion (killing the Kamala endorsement, firing their top talent, etc) have consistently undermined that strategy. bsky.app/profile/dave...
Will Lewis gets up every day asking: How can I get more suburban DC readers to cancel their subscriptions? It's called grindset and you wouldn't understand.
In a nearly illiterate editorial, WaPo defends Trump's ballroom project, without revealing the fact that the paper's owner, Jeff Bezos, is a principal funder of the project. Shameful conduct all around. bsky.app/profile/bgru...
October 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Some highlights from one of the founding documents of the Republic, the Declaration of Independence, 250 years old next summer. ‘He’ being George iii:

“He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness of his invasions on the rights of the people.”
October 26, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
October 26, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
October 26, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power
October 26, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Please repost:

We're looking for an excellent writer/editor with strong data journalism skills to join the religion team at @pewresearch.org.

pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...
October 23, 2025 at 11:55 PM
It's all about getting to this:
October 23, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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American politics is in a totally good place
October 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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The primary and most pervasive form of speech suppression that this Administration employs is chill; it's pervasive but much harder to quantify than outright censorship. But stories like this must be happening everywhere.

www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Opinion | My Bosses Were Afraid of Crossing Trump. So, I Quit.
A veteran journalist opens up on the censorship that he says led to his resignation.
www.politico.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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The first two posts Mark Zuckerberg’s flagship app chose to show me when I logged in tonight. I don’t follow either account. For context, I’m Jewish. Amazing how sinisterly dark shit has gotten.
October 22, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’
Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...
www.volkskrant.nl
October 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM