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What does it mean to be Jewish in America today?
This is the question of the hour, for so many of us.
And that's what this newsletter is all about.
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@MichaelSalfino I enjoy your work and hope my random Knicks queries are not burdensome. That said... as a Knicks fan, what's my greatest source of optimism for this series? What should be my greatest area of concern?
You can teach nearly every high school subject effectively with a textbook and a chalkboard, and the only reason we don’t is because education companies figured out they could milk districts out of millions of dollars by convincing them otherwise.
@kl3dger@INArteCarloDoss When you accept a Cabinet-level positions you have to divest but you can do so tax free, so a guy like Bessent gets paid tens of millions of dollars to do this.
@MichaelSalfino I'm a longtime Knicks fan, can you help me understand the defensive success they've had over the last ~20 games? Not sure how to account for it, but it seems like it's a big enough sample that it's real.
James Van Der Beek’s final message to the world is one of the most powerful things I have ever heard. Stop whatever you are doing and listen to this! 🥺
Reporter Jana Shortal from @kare11 in Minneapolis recounts how agents mistreated her after the Alex Pretti murder. She was intentionally sprayed with chemicals while wearing her press badge and standing in a designated safe zone, revealing a serious lapse in training and judgment among the officers involved. #DemsUnited
Before his debut novel "Escape!" arrives on bookshelves tomorrow, I spoke with @stephenfishbach about how #Survivor severe gastrointestinal distress kicked off his 10-year journey of writing a reality TV story. And how many people (including myself!) inspired the tale: https://t.co/HELRpwiGWr
@kl3dger@TrungTPhan !!! One gambling consultant tells The Economist that “By the time a customer places his first bet, [sportsbooks] are 80-90% certain they know the lifetime value of the account.”
Happy birthday to Hans Bethe (born 1906), a German‑born Jewish physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967 for his work on stellar nuclear processes, expanding our understanding of the inner workings of stars.
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