I’m seeing a lot of discourse over Park Slope and I’d like to add to it. In a spiritual sense, Park Slope and Morningside Heights are sister neighborhoods. I will not be elaborating at this time.
I stood this week in the abandoned Palestinian community of al-Mu’arrajat in the Jordan Valley and cried.
A community of 600 people is gone. Homes destroyed. A school and mosque in ruins. Olive trees uprooted. Family after family driven from their land by years of settler violence and intimidation.
I thought of my great-grandparents, who fled persecution in Czarist Russia and made aliyah to Palestine in the 1880s. How can Jews who know so intimately what it means to be driven from our homes stand by while other Jews do this to another people?
Moral outrage is not enough.
Israel must enforce its own laws. If it will not, international courts must act. Those who organize, finance or facilitate forced displacement should be held accountable – sanctioned by the U.S. and other governments or brought before international justice.
If we truly care about Israel, we must confront and defeat this enterprise.
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Today it's a parking lot, on a prime corner in NoHo, at 375 Lafayette St.
Soon it will become two residential buildings, 200+ units, 50+ affordable. Approved this week by @nyclandmarks.
This project was only possible because of the 2021 SoHo/NoHo rezoning, which was a truly epic battle. Thanks to everyone who fought for this.
This is a craven power grab and a slap in the face to Brooklyn Democrats who voted for change in June. Changing the rules after voters have spoken to cling to power is desperate, undemocratic and Trumpian. 1/2
It was wrong after 9/11 to hold Muslim New Yorkers responsible for the actions of terrorists because they shared a religion, and it is wrong now to suggest that violence against Jews in New York somehow belongs in the same argument as the actions of a foreign government.
Actor Walton Goggins says he turned down a role because he didn’t want to sell out Southern culture: “The South is way more complicated than it’s depicted in movies and TV, and I didn't want to participate in selling out my culture anymore.”
We mourn the loss of Sgt. Angel Rampersad, an Ozone Park native who was killed at a military base in Jordan while serving our country.
Sgt. Rampersad's courage and sacrifice will be remembered not just in Queens, but across all five boroughs. My deepest condolences are with her family, loved ones, and all those grieving this profound loss.
For so many New Yorkers, wars overseas are never distant—they are felt here at home. The sacrifices made by service members and their families are a constant reminder of this.
We are forever grateful for their service and will work every day to honor it.