Born 100 years ago today.

Survived Auschwitz.
Immigrated to America.
Married and raised a family.
Built a life of hard work, humility, and faith.
Earned a reputation for integrity and gentleness.

Mark Jacoby, my father, my teacher. His memory remains an enduring blessing.

When Israel-haters like Zohran Mamdani refuse to repudiate slogans like "globalize the intifada," this is what they are endorsing: arson, violence, and the attempted murder of Jews anywhere in the world.

The power of cult brainwashing is frightening. In the latest YouGov/Economist survey, 27% of Republican voters agree that Canada is an "unfriendly" or "enemy" country; 29% say so about the European Union. How did the once-great GOP turn into a party of mindless Kool-Aid drinkers?

When this "Palestine Resistance" lapel button was made in 1948, it was to support the Jews of Palestine, who were fighting the Arab onslaught intended to drive them into the sea. Everyone then understood that "Palestine" referred to the Jewish homeland and that "Palestinians" were Jews.

What a disgusting betrayal. The US and Israel voted WITH Russia in the U.N. against a resolution condemning Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

Shame on Trump. Shame on the Republicans who have enabled his corruption of US foreign policy. And shame on Israel for endorsing this vile American perfidy.

A baby boom in Israel: This is the classic Jewish response to savage persecution — to double down on Jewish continuity.
Within weeks of liberation, survivors of the Nazi deaths camps were getting married. My father's family was murdered in Auschwitz, so he told my mother he wanted a lot of kids.

On this #ThanksgivingDay, I am grateful for the 3rd Cavalry Squadron of the 80th Infantry Division of the @USArmy, which on 6 May 1945 liberated the Nazi death camp at #Ebensee, thereby saving the life of the teenager who would later become my father.
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Macaroni and cheese? For #Thanksgiving?? Southerners aren't normal.

The National Union of Journalists wants everyone to know of its hostility to Israel & its embrace of the Jewish state's enemies. Its Bluesky profile pic features the colors of the Palestinian flag. In the war of civilization vs. barbarism, the NUJ is proud to stand with Hamas and the antisemites.

John Podhoretz in @commentary.bsky.social:

As antisemitic hate speech and hate crimes explode, officials must "raise the cost of Jew-hunting so high that those tempted to engage in it will stand down. Or Jews are going to take matters into their own hands."
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Every antisemitic murder is a horror. But there is an added layer of evil in the slaughter of Rabbi Kogan. Chabad emissaries worldwide are famed for their kindness, joy, and tolerance. It is in keeping with Chabad's mission that it asks people to "do a mitzvah"—a good deed—in Rabbi Kogan's memory.

If Columbia students scornfully walked out on a speaker because he was black or Asian or Muslim or Hispanic, their bigotry would fiercely condemned. But when antisemitic students refuse to listen to a speaker — even a noted journalist — because he's an Israeli Jew, it's just another day on campus.

Question for all the Bluesky accounts posting this graphic as though it reveals some deep truth:

If red Oklahoma is so benighted, why is it one of the Top 10 states Americans choose to move to? And if blue Massachusetts is so enlightened, why is it one of the Top states Americans choose to leave?

Abraham Lincoln, 19 November 1863:

"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

#GettysburgAddress

Picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline.