A while ago I read People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn. The book's premise is that dead Jews, i.e. Holocaust...
A while ago, I read an excellent book, The Island at the Center of the World::The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That...
Columbia rabbi tells Jewish students to leave campus, warns that school, NYPD 'cannot guarantee your safety' (link): The Orthodox rabbi at...
First the good stuff (link) (sort of like "Puff the Magic Dragon): New Rochelle is party to Sustainable Westchester's "community choice...
Israel’s Account of Attack on Aid Convoy Raises Wider Legal Questions, Experts Say (link, no paywall) The featured New York Times article...
Top Iranian commander killed in attack on consulate in Syria, Iran state-affiliated media report....
Indiana Law Requires Professors to Promote ‘Intellectual Diversity’ or Face Penalties (link, not paywalled) Diversity is a great thing, and,...
Why are people who describe themselves as "Progressives" or "Liberals" in favor of Hamas and Iran? It would seem, based on posts that they noisily...
Gee, what a surprise. This Fourth Grade fantasy of free and clean energy from the wind and sun is ending as surely as Puff's dreams in Puff the...
This is truly a heartrending story: The 10-Year-Old Boy Who Has Become the Face of Starvation in Gaza (link in headline, excerpts below). The...
I was dictating an email to one of my friends, using cell phone, dictation, that was supposed to say “Are you watching the state of the Union...
Our society has lost a good deal of its willingness to take risks over the years. Examples include: Removing most playground that’s any fun;...
Joe Biden got $40K from China funds, brother James admits in bombshell impeachment interview (link) I still think Biden is one of our greats, but...
The New York Times has gone into the toilet (literally) on Gaza. See Sanitation Crisis in Gaza Spreads Disease (link). For two months after...
This is a somewhat difficult post to write, and I am not sure it is in the right place. I am informed that most of the cases of this arise at over...
Are we prepared for Disease X? (link, may be paywalled), excerpts: Hypothetical Disease X pandemic preparedness talks among world leaders...
The Gaza Philharmonic Orchestra was forced to relocate from Gaza City to Khan Younis in southern Gaza. The IDF attacked during their performance...
The museum suicide and cultural destruction has gone national (link). I am personally in mourning; the Museum of Natural History is closing to...
The Whale Who Went AWOL - Hvaldimir escaped captivity and became a global celebrity. Now, no one can agree about what to do with him. (embedded...
As Utility Bills Rise, Low-Income Americans Struggle for Access to Clean Energy (link, no paywall) Excerpt: The Biden administration has...
Supreme Court will hear case about homeless encampments, with huge implications for California (link) Excerpt: The U.S. Supreme Court will weigh...
Article in this morning's Journal News (Westchester-Rockland) Decades-old sex-abuse claim against assistant coach puts focus on Nyack schools....
Apple keeps on trying to convince or trick me into "choosing" "two-factor" ID, so that I would have to fetch my cell phone after inputting my...
The AGW movement is targeting affluence, not "climate change." After all, in 2035 how is anyone to know what temperatures would have been without...
I am a Cornell alum, Class of 1979. I wrote this letter, with my name redacted ==========================================================...
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