Aryeh Cohen
@irmiklat.bsky.social
Teacher, writer, rabbi, thinker, social justice activist.
Book: Justice in the City: An Argument from the Sources of Rabbinic Judaism
Podcast: Daf Shvui https://dafshvui.buzzsprout.com/
Book: Justice in the City: An Argument from the Sources of Rabbinic Judaism
Podcast: Daf Shvui https://dafshvui.buzzsprout.com/
My prediction is that within six months of opening day, this will be unsanitary, violent, and the government will say "they cut medicaid we just couldn't provide the services." and yet, the police and courts will continue to dump and confine people there.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
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In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
My prediction is that within six months of opening day, this will be unsanitary, violent, and the government will say "they cut medicaid we just couldn't provide the services." and yet, the police and courts will continue to dump and confine people there.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
I have a poem in the new issue of Ilanot Review.
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[Untitled] - Ilanot Review
Aryeh Cohen sometimes you have to ignorethe blinding burning pull of angeroverlook the sharp edges the teethhoned on a stone of short andpiercing jabs and settle on thequotidian. checking the manuscri...
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October 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I have a poem in the new issue of Ilanot Review.
www.ilanotreview.com/flaw-and-fav...
www.ilanotreview.com/flaw-and-fav...
It might now be the day after.
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The Day After for the American Jewish Community · Jewschool
On the day after, the leaders of these organizations, the rabbis of these synagogues, will have to look at themselves in the mirror and see the tens of thousands of dead Palestinians and ask themselve...
jewschool.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:33 PM
It might now be the day after.
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jewschool.com/the-day-afte...
These comedians will obviously be cancelled in 3…2…1
Well, let's try again. 3…2…1 …
Is this mic working?
www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...
Well, let's try again. 3…2…1 …
Is this mic working?
www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...
Comedians, human rights groups slam top U.S. comics taking the stage in Saudi Arabia
Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart and Others Are Taking the Stage in Riyadh's 'World's Biggest Comedy Festival,' Which Human Rights Groups Call a Whitewashing of Repression
www.haaretz.com
October 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
These comedians will obviously be cancelled in 3…2…1
Well, let's try again. 3…2…1 …
Is this mic working?
www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...
Well, let's try again. 3…2…1 …
Is this mic working?
www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...
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Trump’s lying (again). The shutdown isn’t about ‘illegal aliens,’ it’s about Republicans refusing to extend health care subsidies for millions of Americans.
October 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Trump’s lying (again). The shutdown isn’t about ‘illegal aliens,’ it’s about Republicans refusing to extend health care subsidies for millions of Americans.
This horrific anitsemitic attack on the holiest day of the year for Jews should be widely condemned. Violence only begets more violence.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/w...
Deadly Attack Outside U.K. Synagogue on Yom Kippur Is Declared Terrorism
www.nytimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This horrific anitsemitic attack on the holiest day of the year for Jews should be widely condemned. Violence only begets more violence.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/w...
Once again the ADL proves that it is a doormat for a wannabe dictator.
September 30, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Once again the ADL proves that it is a doormat for a wannabe dictator.
For a momentary breath of fresh air in the ongoing putrefaction of martyrology read the dismissal of Trump's suit against the Times. (link to the decision in the first comment)
September 22, 2025 at 8:06 PM
For a momentary breath of fresh air in the ongoing putrefaction of martyrology read the dismissal of Trump's suit against the Times. (link to the decision in the first comment)
There is political violence happening every day in this country. It is perpetrated by ICE, DHS, CPB, FBI and the whole evil alphabet of DJT's militias. Nonviolent resistance is not an option, its an obligation.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...
Protesters and Federal Agents Clash Outside an ICE Detention Facility Near Chicago
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September 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
There is political violence happening every day in this country. It is perpetrated by ICE, DHS, CPB, FBI and the whole evil alphabet of DJT's militias. Nonviolent resistance is not an option, its an obligation.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...
This year we are all going into the holiday with a whole in are hearts. May we mix our tears for the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and the Israeli hostages, both dead and alive, with the sweetness of hope that this year we will achieve a cease fire and Palestinian liberation,
September 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This year we are all going into the holiday with a whole in are hearts. May we mix our tears for the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and the Israeli hostages, both dead and alive, with the sweetness of hope that this year we will achieve a cease fire and Palestinian liberation,
We are at that time of year when mi-dor le-dor, traditions of Rosh Hashanah challah baking are passed down from YouTube to baker.
September 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
We are at that time of year when mi-dor le-dor, traditions of Rosh Hashanah challah baking are passed down from YouTube to baker.
WaPo continues to bow and scrape before the administration.
September 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
WaPo continues to bow and scrape before the administration.
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The note referred to undocumented people as vermin.
Chicago police are on scene at Andre Vasquez’s 40th Ward Alderman’s office where a note and a dead rat have been left on the front foot of the office.
September 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The note referred to undocumented people as vermin.
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Stephen Miller was directly involved in one of the largest acts of organized domestic political violence the United States has seen in modern times, the Jan 6 insurrection. Any news org that doesn't make this fact central is helping Miller deceive its customers.
Stephen Miller: “We are gonna channel all the anger we have over the organized campaign to led to this assassination to uproot & dismantle these terrorist networks … we are going to use every resource we have at the DOJ, Homeland Security & throughout this govt to dismantle & destroy these networks"
September 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Stephen Miller was directly involved in one of the largest acts of organized domestic political violence the United States has seen in modern times, the Jan 6 insurrection. Any news org that doesn't make this fact central is helping Miller deceive its customers.
This is what white nationalist autocracy looks like.
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Here are the details of Trump's $1.2-billion call to remake UCLA in a conservative image
The Times describes the details, for the first time, of the 28-page proposal the Trump administration has made to remake the UCLA campus.
www.latimes.com
September 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This is what white nationalist autocracy looks like.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him
September 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him
Nobody should be assassinated. However, being assassinated, does not erase the fact that you were a racist, antisemitic, xenophobe.
September 14, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Nobody should be assassinated. However, being assassinated, does not erase the fact that you were a racist, antisemitic, xenophobe.
1. The Jewish establishment needs to sit up and listen to the kids;
2. the last sentence in the story gives away the game. "A group of billionaire realtors, a number of them Jewish, convened an emergency meeting Tuesday morning to discuss ways to help defeat Mamdani." forward.com/fast-forward...
2. the last sentence in the story gives away the game. "A group of billionaire realtors, a number of them Jewish, convened an emergency meeting Tuesday morning to discuss ways to help defeat Mamdani." forward.com/fast-forward...
NYC voters say Mamdani best addressed the Israel-Palestinian conflict, poll shows
The survey showed the democratic socialist is favored in a crowded race, though a head-to-head matchup with Andrew Cuomo remains tight.
forward.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
1. The Jewish establishment needs to sit up and listen to the kids;
2. the last sentence in the story gives away the game. "A group of billionaire realtors, a number of them Jewish, convened an emergency meeting Tuesday morning to discuss ways to help defeat Mamdani." forward.com/fast-forward...
2. the last sentence in the story gives away the game. "A group of billionaire realtors, a number of them Jewish, convened an emergency meeting Tuesday morning to discuss ways to help defeat Mamdani." forward.com/fast-forward...
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The Onion News Network truck is currently stationed outside the Broadview ICE Detention facility just outside of Chicago.
September 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The Onion News Network truck is currently stationed outside the Broadview ICE Detention facility just outside of Chicago.
September 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Israel thinks that banning journalists will prevent the world from knowing the extent of the ongoing death and destruction in Gaza. They are wrong. It will only go to strengthen the perception that something truly evil is happening. Something truly evil is happening.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/o...
Opinion | Israel’s Gaza Media Ban Is Indefensible
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August 31, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Israel thinks that banning journalists will prevent the world from knowing the extent of the ongoing death and destruction in Gaza. They are wrong. It will only go to strengthen the perception that something truly evil is happening. Something truly evil is happening.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/o...