Ben Fischberg

[Ben Fischberg @BenFischberg]

@NYCParks When will you turn the dog fountains on at Murphy Brothers Playground? Love those fountains but that are still off despite the hot weather. Thank you

[Izabella Tabarovsky @IzaTabaro]

The key sentence in this New York Times piece about the Bund is: “Today, the Bund is largely forgotten.”

There is a reason for that. As I write in the concluding chapter of Be a Refusenik:

“In the long arc of Jewish history, the Bundists, whom today’s antizionists look to for inspiration, have lost decisively and irrevocably.

Zionists outpaced the Bund by far in their appeal to Russian Jewry.

They drove their point home when they fully implemented their political vision of building a Jewish state and rescuing the remains of Eastern European Jewry that the Bund had insisted must stay in Poland and Ukraine.

Long after the Bund perished in the bloodlands of Europe, Zionists kept proving their point. They did it every time they saved more Jews — Moroccan, Tunisian, Libyan, Yemeni, Iraqi, Iranian, Ethiopian — and brought them to Israel.

In the Soviet Union, their most resounding vindication came through the refuseniks, who reversed the destruction wrought by the Yevsektsia— the Jewish Sections of the Communist Party, staffed in part by former Bundists — and resurrected Judaism, Hebrew, Zionism, and the rich Jewish identity that Soviet policy had tried so hard to erase.”

And that, in a nutshell, is why the Bund is now thoroughly forgotten, while Zionism continues to thrive and be a vital part of Jewish identity.

No matter how hard Jewish antizionists like Crabapple try to invoke the ghosts of a movement whose vision proved to be so decisively and tragically wrong, they will not bring it back — and they certainly will not make it relevant for Jews again.

So irrelevant is the Bund today, in fact, that it didn’t even make it into the title of the piece about it.

What is in the title instead? Zionism. Q.E.D.

[Ben Fischberg @BenFischberg]

@stevenlivz @martycash @WinnipegNews Not that I saw but @Mayor_Bowman or @MRingTechCom might know. Manitoba/Wpg gov is supportive of start-ups so I think they'd be receptive.

[Ben Fischberg @BenFischberg]

@palmerfritschy @TechCrunch Latest census at time of writing puts Winnipeg at ~600K. https://t.co/iii4INZsb6

[Marshall Ring @MRingTechCom]

@BenFischberg Thanks for the TechCrunch love for Wpg. @sightline_innov @SkipTheDishes dig this. https://t.co/uI5r8yRn82 # via @techcrunch

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

How Winnipeg focused on local strengths to create a tech hub in central Canada https://t.co/q1DBP2rFXe by @benfischberg

[Ben Fischberg @BenFischberg]

@Jumpshell hi, read your post on when to look for Boston apts. Wondering how price fluctuates by month. Is Sept. more expensive than July?

[Ben Fischberg @BenFischberg]

.@martycash Excited to learn about tech in Winnipeg. Hoping to hear from more exciting startups - via @winnipegnews https://t.co/ntSTy1KFfs

[Ben Fischberg @BenFischberg]

Yelp page for Ahmad Khan Rahami's family restaurant gets flooded with reviews the moment his name is reported
https://t.co/pRTSUUu1vY

[Ben Fischberg @BenFischberg]

“@Sam_Floy: Listen to The East Africa Business Podcast: https://t.co/ksfQFsliFc feat. @GETITRwanda” Loving these entrepreneurial stories

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Not all startups need the bright lights of the big city https://t.co/U1ztu896HN by @benfischberg

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Tech Infrastructure In The Developing World https://t.co/AcqLn5aoco by @benfischberg

[VentureBeat @VentureBeat]

The Azerbaijan litmus test: Can money and government create a tech hub? http://t.co/MNbSs98MvL

[Ben Fischberg @BenFischberg]

@BenFischberg @cmschroed thought the story of the Azeri tech sector could interest you

[Ben Fischberg @BenFischberg]

The rise of the Azeri tech sector. Can an oil rich government create a tech hub? http://t.co/kvQqDiCztj

[Ben Fischberg @BenFischberg]

Investors are moving away from the '08-'12 contagion focused mindset and are now evaluating EU countries individually

[Ben Fischberg @BenFischberg]

Greek and Italian sov. debt no longer moving in unison

[VentureBeat @VentureBeat]

Rwandan revival: The rise of tech entrepreneurship in Rwanda http://t.co/djDKKJO1e7