Good will always win in the end.
Karmaโs a gift served best cold.
And I will bless those who bless you,
And the one who curses you I will curse. Genesis 12:1-3
Opening @X is like opening a window to the world.
What do you see ?
I see a war between good and evil
I see evil spreading lies, bringing death, destruction, and much suffering
I see G-d touching hearts, answering prayer, bringing miracles to those who believe, separating those who are his from the rest, creating a case against the nations, and against those who dare touch his little ones
We know who will win in the end
At midnight on February 6th, earlier this year, the doorbell to our apartment rang. The doorbell was followed by a pounding on the door. I answered the door and a security person in our building handed me his phone. It was my oldest daughter Eloise. She had found my 26-year-old daughter unconscious on the floor of her apartment and had called 911. The EMT team was already there, but they did not know what was wrong with Lucy or to which hospital they would take her.
I threw on some clothes and jumped in an Uber heading east toward Brooklyn. (Lucy lived alone in Williamsburg.) On the way, I learned that they were taking her to Elmhurst, a City trauma hospital in Queens. I arrived about five minutes after the ambulance to join Eloise, Lucyโs mom, and a friend, and waited to learn what was wrong.
After about 15 minutes, I asked a nurse where she was. I looked over his shoulder to his computer. Next to her name, it said โnon-responsive.โ I walked into the emergency room and wandered around looking for her until I found her unconscious on a gurney surrounded by several doctors and nurses.
By about 2:30am with the results from a CAT scan, Lucyโs doctors had determined that she had a massive brain hemorrhage and would need an emergency hemicraniectomy to release the pressure on her brain and remove the blood from the hemorrhage. I called our wonderful friend and family doctor Eddie Fisher and explained what was going on. He woke up Josh Bederson, Chairman of Neurosurgery at Mount Sinai, to find out more about Zach Hickman, the neurosurgeon on call that night. Dr. Bederson said Hickman was an excellent surgeon, which was comforting as we had no choice.
The surgery to save Lucyโs life began around 3:15am and finished around 5:30am. It was successful.
The following day, I joined Lucy in an ambulance while she was being transferred to Mount Sinai on Madison Avenue. Later that day, we determined from Lucyโs Oura ring that her hemorrhage had occurred around 9am, which meant that more than 19 hours had passed from the time of the hemorrhage to the completion of the surgery to release the pressure on her brain (I only wish @ouraring had an alert for this kind of a medical event. Imagine it could call a family member if the wearer doesnโt cancel the alert).
I later learned that the standard of care is not to do surgery to save a patient with a large brain bleed if more than five hours have passed since the hemorrhage. Even when the surgery is done, I was told that the likely outcome for the patient is a few months in a nursing home and death from pneumonia.
When I met Lucyโs doctors, I did my best to inspire them: โLetโs see what can be accomplished if we give her the best care possible and we invest unlimited resources to restore her to life.โ And I promised that whatever we learned we would make available to everyone.
Dr. Chris Kellner, her neurosurgeon, and Dr. David Putrino, Director of Rehabilitation Innovation for the Mount Sinai Health System have led Lucyโs care team since that day. Words cannot describe the remarkable and compassionate care that she has received beginning with the EMT team and then from nurses, doctors, therapists, and the army of people who have worked to save her and return her to life. To this day, we have a daily Zoom where we discuss her progress and make adjustments to her care. While her care and oversight have been incredible, the learnings for the Mount Sinai team have also been elucidating and will assist in the care of many others.
Lucy began in a bad place. She was in a coma for several weeks and then awoke not being able to breathe on her own, unable to walk, see or speak.
Over the last six months, she has recovered her cognition โ she understands everything including her circumstance โ is able to walk a hundred or more steps at a time with assistance, is making progress with sounds, vowels and consonants and the beginnings of speech, but she remains unable to see.
Each day, she makes a little progress, and daily progress compounds. Every day I tell her that she just needs to make a little progress and it wonโt be long before she is back.
We remain optimistic that Lucy will return to normal function. It will likely take years, but I believe it is only a matter of time, hard work, and technological progress, along with some, and perhaps a lot, of divine intervention.
Many people have been praying for Lucy and we are incredibly grateful for the prayers and remarkable support she has received. Lucyโs friends have been with her every day since the beginning, and their presence and friendship have saved her life and helped to rebuild and maintain her spirit. And on a very positive note, Lucyโs challenge has brought together our entire modern family who have all been incredibly devoted to her care and recovery.
Lucy's vision and other faculties may require some form of brain computer interface, work that is underway at Neuralink, Precision Neuroscience, Science, Synchron, Nudge, and other companies in the space.
If you are going to have a devastating brain injury, now is the best time in history for that to happen. We are living in a world when you can be confident that the blind will soon see again. We are going to do everything we can to help make that happen, including by assisting existing companies in the space.
With respect to our promise to make Lucyโs care available to others, we have made good progress. In May, a real estate colleague made me aware of a 93% vacant, brand new, 400,000 square foot Class A+ purpose-built biotech facility on West End Avenue between 65th and 66th Streets that missed the market and was available for sale. The Pershing Square Foundation acquired the building 60 days later.
We also put under contract an adjoining 130,000 square foot building at 320 West 66th Street that is currently being used by Saturday Night Live for studio space. The building has 35-foot ceilings with massive column-free spaces that can be converted into superb rehabilitation facilities. We will close on the SNL building in December.
We are also acquiring an adjoining vacant lot with additional air rights. With just the existing zoning rights, we can add a 150,000 square feet for a total of 680,000 square feet, a lab footprint larger than Rockefeller University, and thatโs without including the potential for an upzoning that would allow for substantially more buildable area on the siteโs 3.4 acres with spectacular views of the Hudson.
Our goal is to build the worldโs greatest brain research, rehabilitation, recovery, human optimization, and longevity institute. We have named it The Ackman Oxman Institute or the AOI for lack of a better name, but also to reinforce the point that Neri and I and our family are all-in on the mission.
The AOI will be patient-centric. It will not be an academic research institute that produces lots of papers, a Nobel Prize winner or two, but little if any results for patients. We will be laser-focused on cures, treatments, devices, rehabilitation and exercise equipment, and targeted and basic research with a goal of massively accelerating the time from idea to innovation to production to helping a patient.
While the AOI will be a non-profit, it will have highly commercial instincts. The AOI will have its own venture funding and will work to develop innovations to create companies that we will seed, assist, and spinout to ensure technologies, treatments, techniques, and drugs get to patients as promptly as possible.
On one 3.4 acre campus in what is still the greatest city in the world, we will do neurosurgery, neuroscience, rehabilitation, nutrition, BCI and device development, human trials, hyperbaric oxygen treatments, and life extension programs, and we will mandate and incentivize collaboration among the teams with no silos, politics, bureaucracy, or any other constraint that is inconsistent with the mission.
Mount Sinai will be an important partner and deservedly so, but it wonโt be our only hospital or medical school partner as we donโt believe any institution has a monopoly on the best ideas or the best talent. We donโt believe in exclusive relationships because that is not in the best interest of patients.
Five years ago, we considered launching a brain institute inspired by Neriโs mom who sadly died from Alzheimerโs. We couldnโt make the math work as the real estate was too expensive and we believed it would be too difficult to recruit the best talent from universities to our effort.
Since then, the real estate became available at a 70% discount, universities became a much less attractive place to work due to politics outweighing meritocracy, protests that disrupt learning, the curse of antisemitism, and a decline in funding. Fortunately, during the same time, I made sufficient personal economic progress to make the AOI possible.
The advance of AI in the last few years will also enable us to greatly accelerate our mission. AI still has a lot to learn about human intelligence and the brain, and the AOI should be at the forefront of the interplay between the brain and AI.
Today, I am making a public filing disclosing a gift from Neri and me of ~$400 million or 10,000,000 shares of Pershing Square Inc. (PS) to the AOI. It is very early days for Pershing Square so these shares are intended to anchor the long-term work of the AOI as the shares compound over time while generating what we expect will be a growing stream of quarterly dividends to fund the Institute.
We will also be announcing an additional gift of similar and potentially greater size which wonโt be in the form of Pershing Square stock to provide the AOI with the short- and intermediate-term runway necessary to enable it to achieve its goal of becoming a self-sustaining institute, which reinvests all of its revenues, royalties, and the economic rewards of company formation to advance the fields of brain health and human longevity.
Neri and I have chosen to anchor the funding of the AOI to maintain vision alignment and limit the need for the organization to focus on fundraising. We expect the AOI to be the best-resourced brain, rehab, recovery, and longevity institute in the world.
We are grateful to have been able to form a board which includes Dean Kamen (our generationโs Thomas Edison), George Yancopoulus (CEO of Regeneron), James Rothman (Nobel Laureate), Bernardo Sabatini (neuroscientist), Chris Kellner (neurosurgeon), Olivia Flatto (CEO Pershing Square Foundation), Neri Oxman, and myself.
We have recently identified a CEO who we expect to announce by October along with other key hires, and are beginning searches for a Chief Scientific Officer, a Chief AI/Technology Officer, a Chief Operating Officer, a Chief Financial Officer, and other key leadership roles.
If you find what we are building compelling and want to be part of the leadership team that creates and builds the AOI from a standing start, please send an email to: [email protected] with a short note as to why you believe you can help. Please include your best three ideas for the AOI along with a summary of your background and your most important accomplishments.
We promise strict confidentiality to those expressing interest in working with us.
We have learned from Lucy that the brain can recover from even catastrophic injury. There is so much more work to be done as the mind is a terrible thing to waste.
For details from my Pershing Square SEC filing see:
https://t.co/gZKafCw6Ia
"There can be no ambiguity: Hamas must relinquish governing authority and all weapons and military infrastructure. And Gaza can never again be a source of terror for Israel," https://t.co/NfstCORCfS
Malki: A gifted girl, a musician with a heart of gold.
(Excerpts and picture From the Malki Foundation)
โA Living Memorial, A Beautiful Life
Malka Chana Roth was born in Melbourne, Australia on November 27, 1985 (Kislev 14, 5746). The smiling teenager in the pictures posted here is our daughter, sister and friend. Caring, sweet-natured, talented, vivacious, musical and deeply devoted to doing everything in her power to help children with disabilities, Malki, as she was known to everyone, brought happiness into many lives.
Malkiโs experiences with her own severely disabled youngest sister led her to become passionate about bringing happiness, support and encouragement to the lives of children facing similar challenges. Malki volunteered to work with children with special needs. At school and in the community, she inspired her peers to do the same.
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But on 9th August 2001 (Menachem Av 20, 5761), Malkiโs own life ended in a barbaric act of Palestinian Arab terrorism in the crowded Sbarro restaurant in the centre of Jerusalem. She was fifteen years old. Her death and her beautiful life are the inspiration behind the establishment of the foundation that bears her name.โ
Malki wrote a beautiful song, a song of joy:
โIn the last year of her life, Malki โ a gifted musician โ wrote the words and music of a song. She hoped to enter it in a school musical competition. Though she completed the song and taught it to her friends, she did not manage to submit it in time for the competition.ย Like most girls of fifteen, she thought she had all the time in the world.
Her family became aware of the songโs existence for the first time when visitors mentioned it in their home during the week of โshivaโ, mourning Malkiโs death. In a spontaneous expression of sympathy and sadness, Malkiโs friends had fanned out across Israel during that mourning week in the summer holidays of August 2001. During that week, they taught Malkiโs song to hundreds of children and teenagers attending the Ezra youth group summer camp and in other summer youth camps throughout Israel.
Since then, the words and music of this lovely creation have continued to be passed along via an informal network of friends in Israel and beyond. Awareness of Shir Lismoach (in English โA Song of Joyโ โ or simply Malkiโs Song) has spread far. Itโs upbeat, optimistic and happy โ just as Malki always was.โ
โShir Lismoach (Malkiโs Song)โจEach of us has a place in the World to ComeโจAnd that is already a reason to be happy.โจWe each have a spark and a startโจAnd this is reason enough to be happy.โจYou live, breathe, moveโจThatโs a good start!โจEach of us has a way of arriving.โจWe all have a way back, too.โจWe each have hope and a futureโจAnd a place in the World to Come.โจYou live, breathe, moveโจThatโs a good start!โจEach of us has so many reasonsโจSo you better start dancing now.โจWe each already have a reason to laughโจSo lets all shout together-โจYou live, breathe, moveโจThatโs a good start!โ
ืฉืืจ ืืฉืืืโจืืื ืืืืื ืืฉ ืืืง ืืขืืื ืืืโจืืืื ืืืจ ืกืืื ืืฉืืืโจืืื ืืืืื ืืฉ ื ืืฆืืฅ ืืืฉ ืืชืืืโจืืืื ืืืจ ืกืืื ืืฉืืืโจืืชื ืื ื ืืฉื ื ืขโจืืืื ืืชืืื ืืืืโจืืื ืืืืื ืืฉ ืืจื ืืืืืขโจืืืฉ ืื ืืจื ืืืจืโจืืื ืืืืื ืืฉ ืชืงืืื ืืืฉ ืขืชืืโจืืืฉ ืืืง ืืขืืื ืืืโจืืชื ืื ื ืืฉื ื ืขโจืืืื ืืชืืื ืืืืโจืืื ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝืืืื ืืฉ ืืืื ืกืืืืชโจืื ืืื ืฉืืชืืื ืืจืงืืโจืืื ืืืืื ืืฉ ืืืจ ืกืืื ืืฆืืืงโจ-ืื ืืืื ืืืื ืืฆืขืืงโจืืชื ืื ื ืืฉื ื ืขโจืืืื ืืชืืื ืืืื
https://t.co/o6S2CUenIk
If you get a lot of hate you can alternate with this but tag @BoyGeorge to share the love. โIf youโre confused, I stand with the Jewsโ. Pick your favorite line. Am Israel Chai.
๐ฏ๏ธ On this day, August 1, 1776 โ 250 years ago โ Francis Salvador, the โSouthern Paul Revere,โ gave his life for American independence.
Born in London in 1747 to a Sephardic Jewish family, Salvador became the first professing Jew elected to public office in the American colonies when he joined South Carolinaโs Provincial Congress.
In July 1776 he rode nearly 30 miles through the night to warn settlers of a Cherokee attack โ earning his famous nickname. Just weeks later, on August 1, while serving with the militia near the Keowee River, he was ambushed, shot, and scalped. He died at age 29, still asking whether the enemy had been beaten.
He never saw his wife and children again. He never learned that the Declaration of Independence had been signed.
Today we remember the first Jewish patriot to die for the cause of liberty.
#FrancisSalvador #AmericanRevolution #250thAnniversary #JewishAmericanHistory #SouthernPaulRevere
Please share this with friends and family in the gulf. Water storage protocols should get started. The humanitarian crisis that could result if Iran destroys desalination plants cannot be overstated. You may not be able to solve the problem for the region but you can protect your family until help arrives.
There are options to get water in - cruise ships and naval vessels have reverse osmosis and desalination resources that can help.
Make sure you have a bridge for your family until help arrives.
Polish PM dropping truth bombs:
'How can 500 million Europeans ask 300 million Americans to protect them from 140 million Russians...?
But Iโll tell you something even more astonishing โ there are 2 billion Muslims asking the world to protect them from 7 million Jews...!?'"
The numbers say it all.
The same crowd that canโt win a single war, builds tunnels instead of schools, and turns every territory they control into a dumpster fire is convinced the tiny Jewish state is an existential threat to them.
Itโs not about land. Itโs not about 'occupation.' Itโs pure Jew-hatred on an industrial scale.
One side contributes to humanity. The other side contributes body counts and conspiracy theories.
Thanks for the reality check, Poland. ๐ฎ๐ฑ
From fb.
Hi! I'm Jo. I'm a non-Jewish Canadian leftist and I'm also a Zionist. After October 7th, 2023, I supported the Free Palestine movement for 6 months.
After listening to Elica Le Bon, Mosab Hassan Yousef, Gazelle Sharmahd, Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, Hamza Howidy, Hen Mazzig, and many others, it became clear that the free Palestine movement was orchestrated and funded by H*mas/Qatar. While a ton of the left is still completely oblivious to reality, I am not.
I refuse to pretend that these useful idiots aren't brainwashed, wrong, willfully ignorant, and dangerous. I refuse to allow them to keep hijacking every online space with their morally superior attitude. I refuse to allow the entire left to be dominated by braindead buffoons. I refuse to allow them to keep targeting and harassing Jewish people. These people are an embarrassment of epic proportions and they should be publicly shamed everywhere they go. Being stupid, naive, gullible, and ignorant isn't an excuse. Calling the IDF 'n*zis' and accusing Israel of g**ocide is disgusting and reprehensible.
The time for civil conversation is over. You mofos have had over 2 1/2 years to have civil discourse. Instead, you have chosen to call Jewish people in every country 'baby k**ling n*zis'. You have chosen to dehumanize Israelis. You have aligned yourself with Islamists. You have labeled Israel a 'white colonial entity'. You have made a mockery of the term g**ocide. You have made your bed and you will f**king lie in it. Get comfy.
Every single loser who decides to leave their antisemitic rants about how they don't hate Jews, they just hate Zionists, will get blocked. You don't run sh*t here. Your little tantrums don't impress me. Your intelligence doesn't impress me. What you have to offer this conversation has zero value.
Defending your psychotic actions because you believed lies about Israel is not enough. You may never come back from how shamefully you have betrayed the Jewish community. You'd better f**king start listening. Start thinking about how you're going to make amends. I'm not going to let you get away with it. You don't get to EVER say that you didn't do all the disgusting sh*t you did. You don't get to say you always knew there was no g**ocide. For the rest of your life, you will have to explain yourselves.
#wakeup #leftist #israel #middleeast #AmYisraelChai #zionist #october7 #complicit #accountability
๐ด ARCHIVED unfiltered footage of what Palestinian Terrorists did to Israelis on October 7th.
Go to https://t.co/X7mFxnXc6p
WARNING - Remember this is not like the fake Pro-Palestinian propaganda weโve witnessed for the past 2 years.
Itโs raw and itโs real and very difficult to bear witness to.
What you will see, what Gazans did to Israelis on October 7th is some of the most barbaric and savage acts humans have committed.
But it needs to be archived and needs to be shared.
So share it. Educate and make sure that the world knows the evil that came out of Gaza that day.
Like I said this is NOT like the mostly FAKE and staged propaganda footage put out by the pro-Palestine community of the IDF. This is very real, so watch with caution.
Indeed โ โPalestiniansโ are Arabs from around the Levant and Middle East who came to the region as workers.
Al Jazeera sometimes slips up and breaks its own narrative.