Amanda Gershon

📍nyc 🎗️

[Amanda Gershon @amanda_gershon]

@soccertorey Argentina

[deuxmoi @deuxmoiworld]

Wedding bells may be getting closer for Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift. Travis was spotted last night at The Bird Streets Club in Los Angeles with his brother Jason and close friend Ross.

[i24NEWS English @i24NEWS_EN]

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[Kayla Epstein 📰 @KaylaEpstein]

NYC, we gotta keep outside summer going. Use all our new Knicks projectors to play World Cup matches on a random Tuesday. Have Spike Lee movie marathons on the side of your building.

$20 cocktails and bar snacks: OUT. Bodega beers and bags of chips: IN

[NEW YORK KNICKS @nyknicks]

for the boroughs and Knicks fans around the world 🏆

[NBA @NBA]

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 53 YEARS, THE KNICKS ARE NBA CHAMPIONS 🏆

New York defeats San Antonio 4-1 in the NBA Finals, capturing their third championship in franchise history!

[Amanda Gershon @amanda_gershon]

@NYCSanitation Please come collect the garbage that’s flying in the wind on the UES

[Israel Defense Forces @IDF]

There are officially no more hostages in captivity in Gaza.

[Israel Defense Forces @IDF]

The deceased hostage SFC Ran Gvili has been identified and will be returned for burial.

According to the information and intelligence available to us, SFC Ran Gvili, 24, who served in the Israeli Police Special Forces, fell in combat on the morning of Oct. 7, 2023, and his body was abducted to Gaza.

The IDF expresses deep condolences to family. The IDF will continue to support the families and the returnees, and to act to strengthen the security of the citizens of Israel.

[Dov Lipman @DovLipman]

FREED HOSTAGE SINGS “I DID IT MY WAY”
Omer Shem Tov.
Kidnapped by Hamas terrorists from the Nova music festival.
Held hostage in Gaza for 505 days.
WATCH to see him singing Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” alongside his mother…
What a joy to see!

[Yael Bar tur @yaelbt]

🤟 Hearing Emily Damari, who was held hostage in Gaza for almost 500 days, speak in NYC tonight.

She recounts watching the US campus protests on Al Jazeera while she was in captivity, and using her “Gaydar” to point out the gays to her fellow hostages and captors. Then Emily, who was hiding her identity, mentioned to her guard that they’d all be killed if they were here, and he laughed and agreed. They both laughed, for different reasons.

A message to all the Jews around the world: When asked why she’s always smiling, she answered that she does it for our enemies, so they know they can’t break us.

If she won’t break, neither will we 🤟

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

This man ran the entire NYC Marathon, 26.2 miles, in a full Batman suit to honor Shiri, Kfir, and Ariel Bibas, whose favorite superhero was Batman. 🧡

You're incredible, @jewfitnesscoach 🙏

[Bring Omer Home @BringOmerHome]

With heavy hearts and a deep sense of relief — we share the news that, Captain Omer Neutra Z”L has finally been returned for burial in the land of Israel. May Omer’s memory be a blessing. May his family be comforted among all who mourn. https://t.co/efuhbCeFAy

[Raylan Givens @JewishWarrior13]

⭕️ A reminder they were taken alive and were brutally murdered by Hams in captivity. There are their photos from captivity. ZL HYD BDE

[Fil Aronshtein @FilArons]

My mom narrowly survived 9/11. Several of her friends and coworkers were tragically killed. I don’t normally share this level of detail on Twitter, but given what’s I’m seeing, I feel compelled to share her story (with her permission).

My mom, a Jewish immigrant from the Soviet Union who came to New York in 1976, came to this country to escape persecution and for a better life. As it turns out, Socialists and Communists hate Jews. Shocker.

My mom started working at the World Trade Center as a Mainframe Programmer at Morgan Stanley in 1987 (Morgan Stanley Dean Witter on 9/11).

My mom was working on the 67th floor of the 2nd Building during the 1993 WTC bombing. Thankfully, she survived, though it left a lasting mark on her.

My mom was working on the 56th floor of the 2nd Building during 9/11. They had just moved her team to that floor a few weeks prior. She had finished a meeting and was working when she looked out the 56th floor window and saw that the 1st Building had been hit. She thought it was an electrical explosion or something since they were always doing some work in the buildings. She saw paper and debris flying everywhere, and thick smoke pouring out. No one really knew what was going on, but remembering the 1993 bombing, her gut instinct was to get out of there.

My mom grabbed her small pouch that had some spare cash in it, grabbed a few of her coworkers, and they started going down the building. When they had reached the 22nd floor, the 2nd plane hit the 2nd Building. She knew she was on the 22nd floor because of a massive column in the center of the building, and they felt the whole building shake. Her and the people with her began sprinting down the stairs to get out.

My mom didn’t know what was going on, but seeing the smoke and knowing that it was toxic to breathe in, wanted to get as far away as possible. She just started walking, trying to get to Queens. She made her way through Chinatown, and out of a gut instinct, went into a store and bought a disposable camera with the emergency money in her pouch. She took many photos of the buildings, and was able to get them developed. I don’t know think any documentaries have ever gotten ahold of them, but I’ll share a few here.

My mom kept walking. Walking to Queens. By the time she had made it to the 59th St Bridge, someone she was passing by told her that The Twin Towers had collapsed. “What do you mean? I was just at work a second ago — that doesn’t make any sense.”

My mom was ironically, in 2006, one of many laid off as Morgan Stanley offshored many of their programming jobs to India.

My mom, every year on 9/11, remembers. Every year on 9/11, my dad would tell me: “wish your mother a Happy 2nd Birthday”. As a kid, I never really understood, but my dad would say, “it’s a day to celebrate that she survived, to be here with us.”

My mom survived. Not one, but two terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I am forever blessed and count myself as one truly lucky New Yorker. Many were not. Everyone knows someone.

9/11, for New York City, was a New Founding. A transformative moment. This tragedy, and our subsequent grit and tenacity, is woven into the DNA of every real New Yorker.

For someone running for MAYOR of New York City to have such little understanding of this core truth, to go as far as to try to leverage it in a POLITICAL COUNTER-MESSAGE OF SHAMING AND RALLYING, is to admit that they are fundamentally disconnected from the reality of what it means to be a New Yorker and thus, be Mayor of New York City.

If you’re a New Yorker, you know this to be true. You know we cannot have Mamdani in office. If we want our city to continue to survive and thrive, we simply cannot.

[Shelley Blond @BlondShelley]

I urge everyone to read Eli Sharabi’s incredible story. To read it is to bear witness to the horrors that occurred on October 7 2023.
Eli’s personal story of survival in the tunnels of Hamas hell in Gaza is a testimony to his bravery, his resilience and strength of character.
What a man, what a soul, what a light he is to this world.
Eternal respect and love for this magnificent man.
Revive and thrive, dearest Eli Sharabi ❤️‍🩹
May the memory of his wife Lianne and his daughters Noiya and Yahel be an everlasting blessing

[Mazelit Airaksinen 🎗🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @Mazelit_]

Please don't forget about Mr. Itay Chen🎗️

He is one of two American hostages whose body is still held by Hamas, with the other being Omer Neutra.

🕯️Itay Chen, 19

“Nobody should be removing their yellow ribbons or until all victims have been returned,” the Jerusalem Post said on Friday.

“The war is not over".

[Lishay Miran-Lavi @LishayLM]

בעוד אני מאושרת על כך שקיבלתי את עמרילי חזרה, ושהבנות שלי קיבלו חזרה את אבא שלהן, אני לא יכולה שלא לחשוב על חברי הקרוב נדב רודאיף, שאמנם אמור לקבל את אביו חזרה, אבל בארון, יחד עם משפחות החטופים החללים הנוספות שגם כעת שרויות באי ודאות.
עבורם, הסיוט לא נגמר, והשמחה לעולם לא תהיה שלמה.
אני לא יכולה שלא לחשוב על חברי גיל דיקמן ומשפחות החטופים שנרצחו בשבי. הם לא זכו ברגע כמו הרגע הזה, כי לא חתמו על הסכם בזמן.

אני לא יכולה שלא לחשוב היום על חבריי איל ושרון אשל, שלא ייזכו לחבק את ביתם רוני. עבורם, לעולם לא יהיה מזור מלא, ותמיד יהיה פצע כואב.

המעט שאנו יכולים כמדינה לעשות עבורם הוא לספק להם תשובות.
אתמול החל מסע השיקום הלאומי שלנו, כעם. מסע שלא יוכל להסתיים עד שלא ישוב החטוף האחרון ועד שלא תוקם ועדת חקירה ממלכתית.

ואנחנו נהיה חלק מהמאבק הזה. עד החטוף האחרון. עד הקמתה של ועדת חקירה.

כי רק כך נייצר מדינה ראויה עבור מי ששילם בחייו. רק כך נייצר מדינה שראויה לילדים שלנו, בה רוני ועלמא יוכלו לגדול.

קרדיט: אלון גלבוע

[MichaelRapaport @MichaelRapaport]

Today, October 14th, would’ve been Omer Neutra’s 24th birthday.
Omer — a proud New Yorker, Long Island kid, Knicks fan — was kidnapped and murdered while held captive in Gaza on October 7th, 2023.
His body is still being held in Gaza.
He’s not just a “hostage.” Not just a “body.” He’s a person — a son, a friend, a brother.
Bring Omer home.
Bring all of them home.
Let their families finally begin to heal. 💔🕯️ #BringThemHome

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Amit, the sister of fallen hostage Almog Sarusi, 27, who was executed by Hamas in captivity: “The happiness you saw today—I imagined it every second for 11 months. I imagined the hug at the hospital, the screams of joy, the tears of happiness. I waited to show Almog how hard we fought for him, to hear from him what he went through there.

I wanted to tell him that he’s a hero and that I’m proud of him, to begin the recovery process together. That vision never became my reality, and on a day like this, the sense of loss only grows stronger.

So it’s important for me to say that, of course, we should be happy, but it’s also important to pause and remember. To remember those who will never return, those who did not come back alive from captivity.”

Never forget Almog and all those who did not return from captivity.

May Almog’s memory be a blessing. 🕯️