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Larry Yudelson
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Founder and Editorial Director, Ben Yehuda Press. Tangled up in Jews since the 20th century. Considering becoming the jokerman dancing to the nightingale's tune for the remainder of the 21st.
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Larry Yudelson @yudel.bsky.social · Dec 1
From early Bibi to late Dylan… and a whole lot more.
GET TO KNOW MY Writing for every like, i will post one piece i wrote
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Ben Yehuda Press has a special sale for Jewish Poetry Month. But 2 get 1 free!
We have a special focus today on poetry in translation

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February 5, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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Watch a discussion of the new bilingual Yiddish-English translation of Hersh Smolar's Yidn on gele lates — Jews Without Yellow Stars. Panelists included Dr. Gennady Estraikh, together with the book's translator Ruth Murphy and editor Catherine Madsen.
Remembering the Holocaust
Watch a discussion of the new bilingual Yiddish-English translation of Hersh Smolar's Yidn on gele lates — Jews Without Yellow Stars. Our panel included Dr. Gennady Estraikh, together with the book's translator Ruth Murphy and editor Catherine Madsen. After the panel discussion, excerpts from four
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February 5, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Read this new book review of “As the Story Goes: Funny, Strange and Serious Stories of Yiddishland’s Jews” Compiled by Mordekhai Lipson Translated and edited by Jonathan Boyarin and Jonah Sampson Boyarin

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February 5, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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Ben Yehuda Press has a special buy 2 get 1 free for Jewish Poetry Month
Check out these historical-themed poetry books:

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February 2, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social
incredible work by the Forward who found the one Jew in Greenland so they could work the Jewish angle on the Greenland story

(spoiler alert: he does not want Trump to take over Greenland)
Greenland’s only Jew hears a familiar pattern in Trump’s annexation talk
Paul Cohen, Greenland’s only Jew, explains how Jewish history shapes his response to Trump’s renewed talk of annexing the island.
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January 22, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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malmer.com
Sometimes I hear people say, “whatever happened to the party of Reagan?” with the implication being that the GOP has only recently incorporated bigotry into its core principles.
sethcotlar.bsky.social Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 18d
Today's factoid from the history of US fascism: the guy who hatched the idea to publish Goldwater's Conscience of a Conservative in 1960 (the ur-text of US conservatism) was Leo Reardon. In the 1930s Reardon was Father Coughlin's manager & he'd traveled to Nazi Germany as Coughlin's representative.
Reardon arrived in Germany in the second week of January 1939 and made appointments to see both Goebbels and Hitler's Foreign Office head, Joachim von Ribbentrop. Reardon was initially received by a deputy official, Richard Sallet, who had served several years in the German embassy in Washington and was very familiar with U.S. politics. According to the official German Foreign Office memorandum, included among documents captured at the end of the war, it was Sallet's task "10 entertain Reardon and talk to him about German problems." According te the report made by State Secretary Ernst Woermann, "Reardon talked against President Roosevelt and against the Jews, and conveyed Cough-lin's suggestion that Hitler personally make some sort of statement that the Nazis were supporters of Christian religion." Woermann noted that "after spending a few days with Sallet, Reardon saw Ribbentrop. To Ribbentrop he repeated the things he had told Sallet." Ribbentrop replied in vague terms that "they would do the best they could on it. At the close of the interview, Ribbentrop said: 'Give my regards to Father Coughlin. I have a high regard for him.' »57 On January 21, Goebbels personally replied to criticisms of German treatment of Jews coming from across the Atlantic. In a speech entitled "What Does America Actually Want?" he decried the "distorted picture of Germany that was given by a Jewish-dominated press which did not represent the true views of Americans."58 His diary for January 24 records: The manager of Father Coughlin, the anti-Semitic radio priest in America, tells us that America is basically more anti-Semitic than we give it credit for. He would like us to take a more positive attitude toward Christianity. I tell the Führer about this. He intends to touch on the question in his speech to the Reichstag. He intends to put out feelings to the Americans and give an outline of Germany's general posi-tion. I believe that this speech will be very important. 59 On the testimony of Joseph Goebbels, it would appear that Reardon not only encouraged a theme in a speech by Adolf Hitler but had potentially encouraged "feelers" of growing anti-Semitism in the United States. 60 Human Events Played a Part In the spring of 1958, at one of book ever written by a political figure Human Events' periodic staff meetings who had not yet become President with political leaders, James L. Wick, Following publication of the book, executive editor of Human Events, said a youth movement for Goldwater-now to Barry Goldwater: "We would like called "Young Americans For Free to see States ,you President of the United dom"-sprang up over the country. By the thousands-spontaneously— The senator, then in his first term, they travelled to the 1960 convention replied: "Oh no! Nothing like that can in Chicago and started a presidential happen. It will be a long time before boom. But Goldwater withdrew his the nation will elect a President with name and insisted that conservatives a Jewish name like Goldwater." support the Nixon-Lodge ticket. In its July 1, 1959 issue, Human In his speech to the convention, Events definitely proposed Goldwater he said: for President, adding that: "...Nomi "Let's grow up, conservatives. nation of candidates from small-popu-lation states (with only a limited num- Let's, if we want to, take this party back-and I think we can someday. ber of delegates to the convention) are Let's get to work." unprecedented- -but these are times of realignment of parties, political flux After Kennedy's victory in the No and crumbling of party traditions. In vember election, Goldwater took his thebe skange times, precedent may well own advice. He "went to work." He spent a large part of his time building Soon after, Leo Reardon, represent- up the conservative strength. ing the obscure Victor Publishing Co. He became the biggest drawing card of Shepherdsville, Ky., persuaded the at college and university assemblies. senator to write a book expressing his views. Aided by Brent Bozell, the sena- He was the principal speaker at four tor rewrote his speeches, Human Events Political Action Con- releases and statements of the previous five years. ferences. He…
January 22, 2026 at 11:41 PM
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The Trump administration's FBI shut down a big investigation into a neo-Nazi group so all the agents could be reassigned to immigration enforcement.

You know, in case you took this administration seriously when they claimed to be "fighting antisemitism." (www.nytimes.com/interactive/...)
"Central U.S. case agent: I was working an undercover operation on a neo-Nazi group with a long history of criminal activity. The F.B.I.’s niche in the federal law enforcement community is these specialized investigations, and now we’re being pulled away from those. If I’d wanted to be a cop, I would have just done that. When I resigned from the F.B.I., I was told they’d have to close the investigation — there was no one else around to pick it up."
January 22, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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Or more broadly, telling your most committed constituents that they are an anchor, a liability, a problem for you -- that, by caring about anything more than what a non-college middle-PA swing voter cares about, they are fucking everything up for you.

That's the constant message.
samadams.bsky.social Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 19d
I am just a simple small-town lawyer but I really can’t think of a more toxic and self-defeating political strategy than telling your constituents the things they care about are “a distraction.”
January 21, 2026 at 8:48 PM
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Hey, people whose German is better than mine and have access to Hegel's "Der Geist des Christentums" in the original: when, in "The Spirit of Judaism" he describes the flood as "a deep distraction" and says Noah built "the distracted world"--what's being translated as "distraction/distracted?"
rjelevi.bsky.social Dr. Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi @rjelevi.bsky.social · 19d
Okay, dammit, I am NOT slacking off if I decide to use the rest of the day for work on my actual book and then catch up on course prep at the end of it. Time to do MOAR reading about historical anti-Judaism and antisemitism!
January 21, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
Well I’m not a senator, so my powers of calling it into question are pretty much limited to writing and protest. But you could make an issue of it on the US Senate floor every legislative day.
murray.senate.gov Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 20d
This is not a rational person. And this is deeply disturbing coming from an American President. NATO is not our enemy—they are unequivocally our closest friends and allies.

At this point, how can you not call into question the mental fitness of this President?
January 21, 2026 at 12:24 AM
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markjacob.bsky.social
It's not debatable that a mentally disturbed person has the nuclear codes. The Republicans know they're endangering us all by leaving him in office. This is a betrayal of every person on Earth. It is a crime against humanity.
January 20, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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mrpaulymac.bsky.social
This says it all. It's madness.
protecttruth.bsky.social Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 21d
This is what’s so stupefying about Congressional leaders: Republicans, Schumer, Durbin, Jeffries.

My brothers and sisters. You are leading the U.S. Congress at a moment of INDESCRIBABLE world historic import.

Your faces and names will be plastered all over history books. How do you think you
vermontgmg.bsky.social Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 21d
We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King.

This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
January 20, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
This is what you do when you’re running death camps
juddlegum.bsky.social Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 20d
1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees

ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals

Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care

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ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months
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January 20, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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SALE: Save 25% on all 2025 titles from Ben Yehuda Press
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January 20, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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This #nationalpopcorn day, read about The Golden Age in Hollywood in The Wicked Wit of the West.
Irving Brecher convinced Judy Garland to star in Meet Me in St. Louis, wrote Bye Bye Birdie, and gave Jackie Gleason his first TV series and a new set of teeth
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January 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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Today is Rosh Chodesh Shevat. It's also the start of Jewish Poetry Month here at Ben Yehuda Press.
We'd like to highlight "King of the Jews" by Matthew Lippman which was just shortlisted for the 75th Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards

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January 19, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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Happy MLK day, gang! Martin was a Democratic Socialist, anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, thought white moderates were the bane of Black existence, and died on a trip to support a sanitation workers' strike!

Beware his sanitized and sanded-down edit!
ryankenacts.bsky.social Ryan Ken @ryankenacts.bsky.social · 21d
Happy MLK Day!
January 19, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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At 11 years old, Naomi Wadler spoke at the 2018 pro-gun control protest March For Our Lives in Washington, DC. “I represent the African American women who are victims of gun violence, who are simply statistics instead of vibrant, beautiful girls full of potential.”
#MLKDay #Unity
January 19, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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Any One Of Us.......
January 18, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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joelhs.bsky.social
Today, the US government is falsely claiming the Somali community is responsible for most crimes in Minneapolis. In 1908, the NYC police commissioner claimed "Hebrews" were responsible for half of all crimes in New York. www.timesofisrael.com/a-century-be...
A century before Trump targeted Somalis, New York’s Jews faced an antisemitic crime libel
In 1908, NYC’s police commissioner falsely attributed half the city’s crime to 'Hebrews.' Today, the Jewish mayor of Minneapolis says an entire community shouldn’t be charged for the crimes of a few
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January 18, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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Fraud is a serious crime that merits laying siege to an entire city and collectively punishing every immigrant from Somalia.

It's also a crime for which you can be pardoned and relieved of compensating your victims, so long as some of the money you stole finds its way to the president.
Trump Sets Fraudster Free From Prison for a Second Time
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January 16, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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The most illustrative reply I’ve ever seen.
seamas.bsky.social The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 24d
pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
Tweet exchange in which a photo of Anne Hathaway is posted by @TheRoyalSerf, to which user @VvSchweetz24 replies "@grok...do your thing. @Grok replies: Anne Hathaway isn't Jewish; she was raised Catholic but left the church. She married Adam Shulman (who is Jewish) in 2012 and celebrates Jewish holidays with their kids. SHe's played Jewish roles, like in "Armageddon Time."
January 16, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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shmarya.bsky.social
What’s really happening with child care fraud in Minnesota? Lots of racism, it seems.

Current evidence shows fraud is nowhere near the level claimed by Republicans, but that hasn’t stopped Trump's crackdown on child care funding.

Fact check:

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Here’s what’s really happening with child care fraud in Minnesota - MinnPost
Evidence of child care fraud in Minnesota is nowhere near the levels a viral video would suggest — but it hasn’t stopped a crackdown on child care funding.
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January 16, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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hntdove.bsky.social
What, no knish?! This is an outrage!
January 15, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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joelhs.bsky.social
"Jews control… the colleges, the nonprofits, the movies, Hollywood, all of it." - Charlie Kirk, 2023

“Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them." - Charlie Kirk, 2023
January 15, 2026 at 7:23 PM