Rich E

Interventional radiologist, Cuban American, Miami sports fan, Liverpool supporter, runner, and swimmer. Tweets are mine.

[Rich E @Edelstein_Rich]

@KlenderJoey @Onoyalldidnt @TonyDungy You will long for the days of making the playoffs every year and falling short. You are more likely to have a top five pick in your future than a Super Bowl appearance

[Rich E @Edelstein_Rich]

@MadridUniversal @JorgeCPicon He’d be a natural fit with #LFC. Legend of the club and would get a hero’s welcome. Also he managed Wirtz in Germany. I personally don’t have a big problem with Slot, but it seems like the writing is on the wall #YNWA

[Rich E @Edelstein_Rich]

@GreekGodOfHops I’m with you 💯! Thank you for speaking truth and for your advocacy

[Israel Foreign Ministry @IsraelMFA]

This is what a modern blood libel looks like:

A sick child. A hijacked photo. A lie that spreads faster than truth.

His name is Osama al-Raqab. He has cystic fibrosis, a serious genetic illness.

He’s been in Italy receiving treatment since June 12. Israel enabled his medical transfer from Gaza.

But that didn’t stop media outlets from weaponizing his image NOT to tell his story, but in order to smear Israel.

Because when it comes to Israel, facts are optional.

Hate always finds a headline.

[Rich E @Edelstein_Rich]

@GreekGodOfHops Great job Youk! You are on the right side of history. May you go from strength to strength 💪🏼💪🏼 🫡

[The Palm Beach Post @pbpost]

A pair of ACL tears haven't stopped Lucia Edelstein from becoming one of Palm Beach County's best middle distance runners. https://t.co/wiScnt5D8p

[Lucia Edelstein @edelstein_lucia]

So grateful to announce my commitment to play d1 soccer @BryantUniv. Thankful for my family, teammates, & coaches. TY Coaches Biggs & Lukis @BryantWoSoc for this opportunity! #Committed #ECNL #BryantBulldogs
@BryantAthletics
@tbusoccer
@ECNLgirls
@ImYouthSoccer
@ImCollegeSoccer

[Rich E @Edelstein_Rich]

@EliAfriatISR Shabbat shalom 🎗️🧡🇮🇱🇺🇸

[Rich E @Edelstein_Rich]

@GreekGodOfHops They intentionally want to show that the world sides with them. That the world & @ICRC will not only allow this spectacle of a murdered civilian mother and her children and an elderly peace activist but also will excuse it. Not despite, but bc they are Jewish #AmYisraelChai

[Seth Mandel @SethAMandel]

The Meaning of Kfir Bibas https://t.co/eqL0qsNfU9 How the kidnapping of a baby came to define a war and the crushing disappointment of watching the world's reaction to Oct. 7.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Here is a list of synagogues that have been set on fire—or targeted for arson—since October 7:

- Oct 17: El Hamma, Tunisia
- Oct 18: Berlin, Germany
- Nov 8: Montreal, Canada
- Nov 18: Yerevan, Armenia
- Nov 19: Lakewood, USA
- Feb 28: Sfax, Tunisia
- April 5: Oldenburg, Germany
- April 10: Moscow, Russia
- May 1: Warsaw, Poland
- May 17: Rouen, France
- May 30: Vancouver, Canada
- Aug 24: La Grande-Motte, France
- Dec 6: Melbourne, Australia
- ⁠Dec 18: Montreal, Canada
- ⁠Dec 30: Mykolaiv, Ukraine

Every time a synagogue is set on fire, I have to update this list. And it never gets easier.

We can’t get used to this. Synagogues burning can’t become the norm. It can’t be our reality.

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

Last week, I had the privilege of meeting Congressman @RitchieTorres. I learned a lot of small things and one very big thing.

I expected to meet, well, a politician, a run-of-the-mill progressive who, for whatever reason, broke from the pack on Israel, who grasped the basic point that until Hamas is removed from Gaza, no peace is possible, no rebuilding, no end to the war, because Hamas won’t let there be.

I was wrong about him. And it was the most optimistic experience I’ve had in America in recent memory.

It began with Ritchie‘s insistence that we meet in the Bronx, in his district. I figured it was a convenience, and since he’s the congressman, I trekked up to the Bronx.

Half an half into our dinner I realized that the Bronx wasn’t the location, it was the point. His support for Jews, I discovered, isn’t about Israel but about the Bronx.

We met over dinner at a little Italian place nestled among a profusion of immigrant eateries on Arthur Street - Mexican, Albanian, Italian. He talked about the astonishing diversity of the district.

The Bronx has the highest concentration of small businesses owned by multiple generations of a single family in the country. He took me to one Jewish-owned store that had etched the Star of David into the concrete at the entrance. When in the 1930s, friends warned the owners not to broadcast their Jewishness out of fear of antisemitism, they responded by carving their Jewishness indelibly into the entryway. Their current congressman - the same family still owns the place - beams with pride at a brazenness he believes defines the borough.

I think of Jews as my people. He thinks of the entire dizzying array of cultures and religions and social classes that make up the district, including a Jewish community he knows intimately and the first Catholic Church I’d ever seen in New York that was actually bustling with worshippers, as his people.

As we talked, I came to understand why he thinks so much about the Jewish experience, why he fights the anti-Israel campaign so fiercely, far beyond what might be explained by his constituents or donors. He could do a quarter of what he does and still find the same grateful Jewish donors at every turn.

But for Ritchie, it’s bigger than the Jews. It’s about the future of progressivism, and thus of America. In his mind, his Jewish community embodies progressive values, and the illiberal turn in large parts of the progressive political world are a war on those values.

He has questions and criticisms of Israel, smart ones, ones I share, and he asked about them. But he sees in the wild hatred and rage against Israel a larger war on Western liberalism. The same activist who rails at Israel’s existence, he says, also thinks America is a standing crime and calls its great promise and ethic of liberty a lie. It’s the same activist who denies that America has made massive progress in race relations over the past century.

Progressives, he told me, have to get back to believing that progress is possible.

He learned to connect these dots from Dr. Martin Luther King, who steadfastly refused to go down the left’s anti-Zionist rabbithole, saw the Jews as great allies and viewed the hatred of them as a bellwether of decline. Ritchie is close to Dr. King’s 93-year-old speechwriter Clarence Jones. I’d met a man who knew his history and defended it with gusto.

He also knew the Bronx down to the minutiae of individual family histories. Our dinner was interrupted by a patron thanking him for something (I didn’t catch what). It was slow going leaving the restaurant because every waiter knew him and wanted to shake his hand (and then got stuck also shaking mine).

And he reads. He knew more Israeli-Palestinian history than most Jews or Palestinians. His one ask of me as we parted: book recommendations.

There is another kind of progressivism, alive and kicking in working-class and immigrant spaces, and starting to fight back. Ritchie is its vanguard.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

One of the most harrowing recordings from October 7th is of a nine-year-old girl on Kibbutz Be'eri.

A police dispatcher listened as she pleaded with Hamas men who had captured her, telling them she was just a child and that she had school to attend the next day.

The operator begged, but the terrorist shot the child and burned her remains, which were later recovered.

The pure evil that Hamas wrought that day will never be forgotten.

Neither will the memories of the 93 children were murdered, injured, or kidnapped on October 7th. May their memories forever be a blessing 💔

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Imagine if the countries of the world—even just the ones who have had Hezbollah terrorist attacks on their soil—stood with Israel today.

Imagine if the UN took this opportunity to tell Hezbollah to stand down.

Imagine if Hezbollah was blamed for escalating tensions in the Middle East through a year of rocket fire, instead of Israel for a brilliant counter-terror op.

Israel will keep defending itself, but the rest of the world has some soul-searching to do.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

It’s the 23rd anniversary of 9/11. If you haven’t ever watched it, watch this today, the best story ESPN has ever done, the man in the red bandanna:

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

There are zero Jews alive in Iraq, a land that was once home to 150,000 Jews, including my own family.

In Israel, 2 million Arabs live freely as citizens, enjoying the same rights as any Jew.

Meanwhile, in Gaza, only 101 Jews remain—but not free. They are underground, held hostage in tunnels, tortured, abused, and murdered—just for being Jews.

Yet, protesters around the world insist that Israel and Israel alone should be destroyed for "apartheid."

[Rich E @Edelstein_Rich]

@ScholerinED @TPP_MD This is key. Find a specialty where the routine and mundane aspects are enjoyable. Everybody loves the unusual exciting stuff. But if you enjoy the recurring day-to-day aspects of a specialty, it’s for you

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

I wish we could ask Hamas nicely to leave us alone, and it would.

But the October 7 Massacre left us no choice. We don’t want to do this. We just don’t have an option not to.

My interview with Ireland’s @rtenews tonight 🇮🇱📺🇮🇪

[CNN @CNN]

The Israeli Defense Forces took CNN’s @AndersonCooper to visit the site of the Nova music festival, where 260 people were killed. Watch the report for @AC360:

[Michael Dickson @michaeldickson]

A CNN reporter went to scene of the music festival slaughter by Palestinian terrorists. Here's what she found: https://t.co/rZthKE5Zbb