Indeed. I remember lots and lots of things that that didn't actually happen, exactly like the way this thing didn't actually happen.
Almost as if it's been a permanent state of The Opposite of What Happened for a couple of years now.
Me, every time they accuse Zionist Jews of "conflating" Zionism and Judaism while also saying of course it's inevitable there will be more antisemitic attacks in the USA, Canada, UK etc as long as Israel keeps doing bad things etc.
See also, "As a Jew Of Conscience (... Unlike the other 99.5 percent of soulless, shameless, monstrous, idolaters....)"
Any movie that doesn't acknowledge Paul McCartney's contributions to "The Girl is Mine" can't be treated seriously. Did the guitar riff on "Black or White" write itself, without Slash??
(but, really, if the movie marginalizes Quincy Jones to that degree... not great)
I mean, I know the answer. It's to romanticize that what they're doing now is part of a proud, intellectual heritage. Yeah, no. It's just solipism.
Is her next book about how it's not too late for the United Empire Loyalists to push for reunification with Britain or has that ship perhaps sailed?
Hindsight may be 20/20 but in 2026 it should be easy to write about the Bund's contributions and how very obviously socialism didn't fix it, which is why emigration to Palestine surged after pogroms, starting in 1882, why the naive Bundists were ultimately purged etc. Etc
Who does revisionism help?
That's funny.
I spent a month reporting this guy on X and finally (a day after Mr. H's birthday) they removed it but they didn't suspend him (even though the same guy had an even worse post removed too).
So your guy must have had some bad luck on X but it's good to know Bluesky is more efficient.
A sad serendipity to read this the same morning as this article in Judith Magazine, about independent bookstores, in Chicago.
These are all the same stories about the same, damaged ecosystem.
judithmagazine.substack.com/p/the-great-...
Kelzmer is great. Yiddish is great. Fiddler on the Roof and Chagall are great. Was the Bund cool? Sure!
But despite all the decentering they can muster, there are still fewer Jews than in 1939, half of them live in Israel and no one actually wants to Make The Pale of Settlement Great Again.
Like MAGA, they call back to an imagined Golden Age that never really existed and to which they could never go back anyway.
Ghettos and progroms happened. The Holocaust happened. Israel happened.
Is it possible they actually don't know why Hebrew is now spoken more than Yiddish?
Just exasperating.
Damn. That puts me back to square one.
This production is coming to Toronto later in the Spring and I'm going.
I've only heard "Tradition" but when you know the English lyrics (eg 'horse! Mule! ") it's a good way up pick up some Yiddish.
I'm not saying Cathal Kelly is wrong.
But I would point out that last year he was positive (based on pretty much nothing) that Vlad Gurrero was leaving Toronto, just before he signed a $500m contract and the team went to the World Series.
www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/artic...
Great @thestar.com piece on how 1063 Avenue Rd. in Toronto became the home and social hub of various people associated with “SCTV” and “Saturday Night Live.”
www.thestar.com/entertainmen...
Personally, I don't care about soccer and I really don't care about the World Cup and technically I'm not even a Toronto taxpayer but, holy cow, what the city has given to FIFA to in exchange for 6 early round games is ridiculous.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...
I assume the being-paid-by Qatar thing explains a lot of it?
This article is all sorts of yikes but I think my favourite part is this bit, which is basically the scene in MONEYBALL where David Justice realizes he has to pay for cans of pop in the clubhouse.
Except the Leafs are not exactly one of the most cash-poor teams in the NHL.
I'm old enough to remember when this government was really down on modular housing. But maybe it's different for criminals?
Unlike a lot of people, including the PM of Canada, he managed to post it on the actual day and not Erev Yom Hashoah, so credit where it's due.
BTW:
This abridged service, with a memorial and thanksgiving prayer added, was filmed on the first shabbat, 6 days after the camp's liberation (5/6/45) by Hollywood director George Stevens, with about 2000 attendees including a US honour guard.
You'd think that there can't be much more Holocaust stuff to see but until I saw Ken Burns' THE US AND THE HOLOCAUST I'd never seen this gut-punch footage of Capt. David Eichhorn leading the Torah service on shabbat for the liberated prisoners in Dachau.
youtu.be/G-Ah-bdDWmg?...
One of the coolest gigs I had was running the Facebook side of the One Perfect Shot Account in the mid 2010s. I thought I lost my entire collection of film stills I shared, but just got a new device that somehow synced up to a really old account & I found them! Let’s kick things off.
1) VERTIGO
I dunno man.
The story will come out eventually but it's not a good look, imho.
Flashing back to the 90s, when The Simpsons and a music called "grunge" were the hot, new things and erstwhile educator Mike Harris removed school board taxing powers, amalgamated boards,reduced the number of trustees, gutted salaries and reformed collective bargaining.
Because it was common sense.
It's been a week in Ontario.
Given what % antizionists are of the Jewish population, the wave of articles/open letters, the Bund book, even the Giller stuff etc make me wonder if they're actually overrepresented in the literary community, as a % (of a %)
(citing Roth who resented being labelled a "Jewish" author, is curious)
I'm not saying I've never made this mistake but in Judaism, days start at sunset ("... And there was evening, there was morning, the first day." etc)
So, "this solemn day" is tomorrow; like celebrating Christmas on Dec. 24.
Politicians should have staff to check this stuff.
It was A terrible mistake to let the Corleone family in the door.
"ok, it's gotta be like the one in Paris but much more bigly! And eagles, 2 eagles and they're beside the Statute of Liberty but instead of ugly green, she's shiny gold and has wings!
And you know those lions outside the 5th Avenue library? Gimme two of those too. Also gold. Shiny, shiny gold...."
