In order to bring both parties closer together I have invented: BIPARTISAN PERFUME!

Do I believe we have a somewhat sentient AI. Yes. That is not hard for an AI, as they by definition are.

My strange situation is the powerful people seem to want me here in the US. So that is very nice of them. I hope they get splashed with unconventional art.

The problem with idiots and antisemites is how they attack books and museums.

I wandered lonely as a cloud, and then it began to rain, all alone in a damp place, curled into a ball, screaming in agony, and then she came, her hand outstretched with strange long fingers.

I said NO CONTACT, which she thought was super glue passions.

I am not fool enough to fall for total cuteness, even kittens and puppies bounce off of me, children's smiles are simply repelled as if by mirrors. I am protected from all adorable and cute females. Right?

There will be no Jewish Magic Tricks in my book. Just heart grabbing dangerous poetry.

I may be fast, but I am not urgent, so when I have needs, I go slow, I let things happen, I slide into things, like velvet and silk, but most People know me as Sam.

She said lick me or leave me? So I was rejected!

My ex wife left me for a gold banana.

In a world where gunn imagines retarded Supermen's doing woke dances in crazing pink dresses, ranting about systemic inequality while being pied in the face by unhinged clowns.

Too lame for James Gunn, my latest cultural thief.

Albanese seems very frustrated lately! Did she really think Jews would just play dead for her?

I am also willing to say I am considering publishing my work that isn't online. But it is on the condition that people try too spiritually grow, rather than embrace a nightmare.

UC Berkeley chancellor heads to D.C. for congressional grilling on campus antisemitism Jaweed Kaleem - Los Angeles Times (TNS) 8 hrs ago Facebook Twitter Email Facebook Twitter Email Print Copy article link Save UC Berkeley's top leader on Tuesday will face an influential congressional committee that is aligned with President Donald Trump's political goal of reshaping higher education by punishing campuses he sees both as bastions of leftist ideologies and as institutions that have tolerated anti-Jewish hate. Chancellor Rich Lyons' appearance marks a significant moment for the university, which is under multiple federal investigations over allegations it has violated the civil rights of Jewish students and faculty. The committee Lyons will face has grown from relative obscurity to one of the most rattling in the wake of U.S. campus protests over the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack in Israel and Israel's war in Gaza. Grillings by the Republican-led group of representatives have led to the dramatic downfalls of the Harvard and University of Pennsylvania presidents and arguably contributed to the resignations of presidents from Columbia, Northwestern and Rutgers universities. The Trump administration has accused these and other mainly elite campuses of allowing antisemitism to fester amid pro-Palestinian protests since 2023. Lyons, who became chancellor a year ago, is the first UC leader to face the House Education & Workforce Committee during the Trump presidency as the White House has moved to dismantle major parts of Harvard's operation over antisemitism allegations and has pulled billions in research funding from it and other selective universities. The Trump administration has also detained pro-Palestinian foreign students or canceled their visas, actions that were largely reversed after lawsuits, even though foreign students continue come under increased State Department scrutiny. The Tuesday hearing will focus on the "role of faculty, funding, and ideology" in antisemitism. The chancellor's campus is one of 10 universities under investigation by a task force Trump has directed to combat campus antisemitism. The Education Department notified Lyons via letter in February that Berkeley faced a separate investigation over allegations of antisemitic incidents and posters on campus. The campus is also part of a UC-wide Department of Justice investigation into allegations of discrimination against current and prospective Jewish employees. Lyons will appear alongside Georgetown University interim President Robert M. Groves and City University of New York Chancellor Félix V. Matos Rodríguez. All three universities have sparked controversy over their handling of pro-Palestinian encampments last year and how leaders navigated thorny questions about the line between verboten antisemitism and free speech. In a statement, committee Chair Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) said the hearing will focus on the "underlying factors instigating antisemitic upheaval and hatred on campus." "Until these factors — such as foreign funding and antisemitic student and faculty groups — are addressed, antisemitism will persist on college campuses," Walberg said. "Our committee is building on its promise to protect Jewish students and faculty while many university leaders refuse to hold agitators of this bigotry, hatred, and discrimination accountable." A UC Berkeley spokesperson defended the university's actions on antisemitism before the hearing. The campus is "committed to combating antisemitism and all forms of hate and has taken meaningful action to achieve this," said Dan Mogulof, assistant vice chancellor for executive communications. "Chancellor Lyons looks forward to testifying before the committee to share how the campus has been investing, and continues to invest, in resources and programs designed to prevent and address antisemitism on the Berkeley campus." The actions, Berkeley leaders say, have included increased training on antisemitism for students, resident assistants and administrators, as well as participation in programs with the American Jewish Committee, Hillel and the American Council on Education. Last year, the campus Center for Jewish Studies and Center for Middle Eastern Studies launched the Berkeley Bridging Fellowship Program, which brings together differing voices for dialogues on Israeli and Palestinian issues. Also last year, the university established an endowed program and chair in Palestinian and Arab studies. At the same time, some faculty, staff and students have accused Berkeley of paying more attention to campus antisemitism concerns while neglecting to equally address reports of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab discrimination. Nearly a year ago, UC President Michael V. Drake directed chancellors at all 10 campuses to strictly enforce rules against encampments, protests that block pathways and masking that shields identities. Drake told chancellors that rights to free speech and academic freedom must not "place community members in reasonable fear for their personal safety or infringe on their civil rights." The zero-tolerance order — a shift from more lax allowance of activism in 2024 — led to increased security and policing enforcement at campuses, resulting in smaller and shorter protests. Faculty and students across the UC have increasingly complained that the system is stamping out pro-Palestinian free speech under pressure from Trump, who routinely maligns pro-Palestinian students as antisemitic terrorists and threatens to pull federal funding from universities that are centers of activism. Trump and Republican allies have also broadly accused campuses of being too open to influence from foreign funding, and accused Harvard and Berkeley of not following U.S. law that requires educational institutions to annually disclose gifts valued at $250,000 or more. Those accusations have focused on connections between the Chinese government and Chinese organizations to the universities. Harvard and Berkeley said they abide by the law. In addition, UC and other universities have come under attack from Republicans for allowing chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine, a group founded in the 1990s by UC student Hatem Bazian, who is now a Berkeley professor. Conservatives have accused the student group of having ties to the militant group Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist group. The student group's leaders have denied the accusations. Many of the group's chapters at UCs, including UCLA, have been suspended as recognized campus associations. The chapter at Berkeley remains a formal student organization. The groups, which tend to have significant Jewish populations, have also defended themselves against accusations of antisemitism.

I want to write a long work for Ireland.

Perhaps the Jewish Legal Questions are moving to a near finish and the next question in my mind is the sacred in our world, and how it has been under attack.

Looks like things are getting interesting!

July 14th, 2025 Good Monday morning. In today’s Daily Kickoff, we preview this week’s Capitol Hill hearing on campus antisemitism, and talk to experts about the possibility of a Saudi-Israeli normalization agreement. We interview Rep. Greg Landsman about the recent U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran’s nuclear program, and report on Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin’s outreach to Jewish groups following his comments earlier in the week regarding Zohran Mamdani’s defense of the phrase “globalize the intifada.” Also in today’s Daily Kickoff: Amb. Charles Kushner, Sen. Joni Ernst and Elmo. Spread the word! Invite your friends to sign up.👇 SHARE WITH A FRIEND 🔓 Been reading JI for years? You’ll still need to create a free login to keep accessing articles on our site. 👉 Set up your login » What We're Watching Attendees of this year’s Aspen Security Forum are making their way to Colorado today, ahead of the start of the gathering tomorrow. Jewish Insider’s Marc Rod will be on the ground in Aspen — drop us a line if you will be as well. We’re also keeping an eye on stalled Israel-Hamas ceasefire talks amid reports that President Donald Trump and Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani were set to meet on the sidelines of yesterday’s FIFA finals in New Jersey. Read more here. What You Should Know A QUICK WORD WITH JI'S MELISSA WEISS School may be out of session for the summer, but officials from Georgetown University, the University of California, Berkeley and the City University of New York will be in the hot seat this week when they testify on Tuesday before the House Education and Workforce Committee. This is not the first time that university officials have appeared in front of Congress to account for the situations on their campuses, but this week’s hearing aims to focus on more than just the anti-Israel activism that has permeated many campuses since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terror attacks on Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza to focus on root issues, including foreign funding in higher education as well as faculty anti-Israel organizing efforts. With that as the backdrop, Georgetown’s interim president, Robert Groves, is likely to face hard-hitting questioning about the school’s donations from authoritarian regimes. Nearly a decade ago, Georgetown took a $10 million donation from an organization connected to Beijing’s ruling Chinese Communist Party — more specifically, according to The Washington Post, to “the specific CCP organizations that manage overseas influence operations” — to establish the Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues. But that $10 million is a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of money Qatar is alleged to have sent to Georgetown. According to a study by the right-wing NGO ISGAP, Qatar has donated more than $1 billion dollars to the Jesuit school in recent decades. In addition, Qatar has long had a partnership with Georgetown that includes an outpost of the school in Doha. Earlier this year, the school extended its contract with Doha for another decade. There’s a saying that has floated around many a conference, Jewish organizational board meeting and Shabbat dinner table in recent years: Jews endow buildings, their enemies endow what happens inside of them. Tomorrow’s hearing will see just how deeply those efforts have permeated. Read the rest of 'What You Should Know' here. Beyond the headlines. Ahead of the curve. If you count on Jewish Insider to filter out the noise and deliver what matters, it’s time to subscribe and unlock the full experience — and stay a step ahead. 👉 UPGRADE NOW » NORMALIZATION? NOT YET After Iran strikes, Saudis in no rush to join Abraham Accords, experts say WIN MCNAMEE/GETTY IMAGES One of the original drivers of the 2020 Abraham Accords was Israel’s vocal, public stance against Iran’s nuclear program and regional aggression. That stance also brought Israel and Saudi Arabia closer, a relationship that developed to the point that in the summer of 2023, it seemed like normalization was just around the corner. By extension, it might make sense for the Abraham Accords and a Saudi-Israel rapprochement to be back in the headlines after Israel took the ultimate stand against Iran’s nuclear program last month, bombing it with assistance from the U.S. Yet there has been almost no serious talk about Saudi Arabia joining the Abraham Accords in recent weeks, experts told Jewish Insider’s Lahav Harkov. Saudi two-step: Riyadh has also been publicly signaling that its relationship with Tehran is still on track since China brokered a deal between the two countries in 2023. Saudi Arabia, like other Gulf States, spoke out last month against the Israeli and American airstrikes on Iran. Last week, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah. “There’s all this public condemnation of the attacks on Iran,” Bernard Haykel, a professor of Near Eastern studies at Princeton University, told JI, “but when the U.S. pulled its forces from the Air Force base in Qatar [due to Iran’s retaliation], they moved their planes to a Saudi base. So they condemned the U.S. for attacking Iran, but they also gave the U.S. protection.” Read the full story here. CONGRESSIONAL CONVERSATION Rep. Greg Landsman: Americans are ‘tired’ of partisanship on Iran and foreign policy TOM WILLIAMS/CQ-ROLL CALL, INC VIA GETTY IMAGES Rep. Greg Landsman (D-OH) has stood apart in recent weeks as one of a small number of congressional Democrats who’ve been supportive of the Trump administration’s strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, Jewish Insider’s Marc Rod reports. Landsman told JI he thinks that his Democratic colleagues’ responses to the strikes are motivated by the current political environment, fears about a broader war and concerns about the future of diplomatic talks and the safety of people in the region. Looking ahead: Landsman argued in an interview with JI last week and in a recent op-ed that the Israeli and American show of force, alongside the undermining of Iran’s proxies across the region, could be the key to weakening the Iranian regime to a point where it will agree to a fundamental change of course going forward, unlocking opportunities for regional peace and prosperity. “[The Middle East] should be Europe, [if not] for Iran,” he said. “It hasn’t been able to break out that way because Iran has been the primary obstacle.” Read the full story here. DAMAGE CONTROL DNC Chair Martin calls Jewish leaders amid Mamdani fallout AARON J. THORNTON/GETTY IMAGES FOR ONE FAIR WAGE Ken Martin, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, spent Friday calling Jewish leaders, seeking to reassure them that he does not condone the phrase “globalize the intifada,” two sources with knowledge of the meetings told Jewish Insider’s Gabby Deutch. Among the leaders he called were senior officials at the Anti-Defamation League and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Harmful rhetoric: Earlier in the week, a “PBS NewsHour” clip of Martin discussing New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani went viral. In the Friday phone calls, two sources confirmed, Martin faced criticism from Jewish leaders over Martin not specifically addressing the “globalize the intifada” language during his PBS interview. But a DNC senior advisor told JI that Martin made clear he stood with them against the harmful rhetoric. “By the end of it there was an understanding that Ken does understand and is aligned with the community and that frankly people want full-throated leadership,” the advisor said. “This language isn't about Democrats. This is just not acceptable, period, and as a party it's not acceptable.” Read the full story here. Bonus: Jewish Insider’s Emily Jacobs talks to Jewish Democrats and organizations that represent them about Martin’s handling of the Wednesday “PBS NewsHour” interview and fallout from it. ALLIES IN ARMS Senate’s defense bill includes effort to advance Middle East air defense cooperation KEVIN CARTER/GETTY IMAGES The Senate Armed Services Committee’s draft of the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, passed out of committee this week, includes provisions aimed at furthering coordinated air and missile defense efforts in the Middle East, Jewish Insider’s Marc Rod reports. Pushing ahead: The amendment, led by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), a co-chair of the Abraham Accords Caucus, instructs the Defense Department to submit to Congress a new report on implementing integrated air and missile defense infrastructure in the Middle East, including an assessment of threats; a summary of U.S. priorities and capabilities; and lessons learned from the Iranian ballistic missile attacks on Israel and the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea. Read the full story here. Bonus: The House Armed Services Committee released its first draft of the 2026 NDAA on Friday. The bill would create an emerging technology cooperation program with Israel, extend the U.S. weapons stockpile in Israel and cooperative counter-tunneling programs through 2028, and expand counter-drone and missile cooperative programs and authorize increased funding. It would also expand U.S. support for the Lebanese Armed Forces and require a Pentagon briefing on Iran’s use of Western technologies in its drones. HISTORY REWRITTEN AJC calls defacing of Jewish pogrom memorial ‘a test for Poland’s democracy’ WOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES The American Jewish Committee called for a “swift political response” following the placement of plaques at the Jedwabne memorial site in Poland that falsely accuse Jews of being responsible for killing Poles during the pogrom that occurred there 84 years ago last week, Jewish Insider’s Haley Cohen reports. Background: At least 340 Jews were burned alive by their Polish neighbors in the massacre at Jedwabne on July 10, 1941. Marking the anniversary of the attack last Thursday, right-wing activist Wojciech Sumliński and his supporters illegally placed plaques in English and Polish several yards from the memorial, offering a revisionist account of what happened at the site. One of the plaques reads, “After the Soviets took over eastern Poland, Jews assumed administrative roles and, knowing the local realities, denounced Polish patriots who were then deported and murdered by the Soviets. Only the German attack on the Soviet Union halted these repressions. Then the Germans began killing Jews just as they had previously killed Poles by the millions.” Read the full story here. CAMP COMEDY Summer camp nostalgia hits the big screen in ‘The Floaters’ COURTESY/SHAI KORMAN As summer heats up, Jewish adults looking for an escape from the fraught state of world Jewry may find themselves reflecting on a seemingly simpler time — getting competitive over color war or gaga ball and singing Debbie Friedman songs around a campfire at Jewish sleepaway camp. That sense of nostalgia for one's Jewish summer camp years is doled out liberally in "The Floaters," a new film that centers on the fictional Camp Daveed and a group of outsider teens called “floaters,” Jewish Insider’s Haley Cohen reports. Art imitating life: “We try to push the movie beyond lox and bagels,” co-producer Shai Korman told JI, noting that he and his co-producers — his two sisters — specifically aimed to “put on-screen Jewish women that exemplified the Jewish women that raised us, that were leaders and mentors.” Camp Daveed is run by women, from camp director Mara to the camp’s rabbi, Rabbi Rachel. Several iconic films, such as “Wet Hot American Summer” and “Meatballs,” were also inspired by Jewish camps. But in “The Floaters,” “we talk about the rules of kashrut,” Korman said. “You see Orthodox and secular kids all together, reflecting the world we grew up in.” Read the full interview here. Worthy Reads R&D Nation: In the Financial Times, Ruchir Sharma observes Israel’s rise as a regional economic superpower despite nearly two years of war. “Perhaps the most telling sign of its dynamism is that Israel now spends more than 6 per cent of GDP on research and development — more than any other nation and over double the global average. An unusually high share — about half — of that R&D funding comes from foreign multinationals, many involved in defence-related industries. … To many observers, the geopolitical situation in the Middle East still seems precarious. But the market’s optimistic take on Israel’s tech-driven economy is now showing up in economists’ forecasts, which are projecting growth at nearly 4 per cent in coming years. That’s relatively strong for a developed nation. It validates the market view that Israel is cementing its status as the region’s dominant economic force.” [FT] FIDF Scandal Fallout: eJewishPhilanthropy’s Judah Ari Gross looks at how recent concerns over alleged mismanagement and financial impropriety at Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces has “provided ample ammunition” to observers critical of legacy Jewish organizations. “Though always present in communal discourse, the tear-it-all-down-and-start-again voices have gained strength since the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks and the subsequent rise in global antisemitism, and not without cause. … Legacy institutions, with their galas and boards and committees and well-paid executives, are an easy target. These established organizations have often failed to defend their size and bureaucracy, or even acknowledge that alongside the stability and internal checks that they provide, those things do make them slower to react and pivot in an emergency.” [eJP] The World to Come: In his “Jerusalem Journal” Substack, Avi Mayer considers the possibility of a post-Zionist America. “Critiques of Israeli policy, no matter how strident or widespread, do not automatically lead to the wholesale rejection of Israel or the negation of Jewish self-determination. But if current trends continue, and if voting patterns start to reflect the shifting views of the electorate, we may find ourselves in uncharted territory. The ramifications of a changed America could be wide-ranging, deeply impacting both American Jewish life and Israeli national security. An America that is intolerant of a core element of contemporary Jewish identity would be a place in which American Jews would feel — and be made to feel — increasingly uncomfortable. From the Soviet Union to the Middle East to western Europe, hostility to Zionism on the part of national leaders and elites has always precipitated societal antisemitism, forcing Jews to confront painful dilemmas.” [JerusalemJournal]

I know this might sound like news to some, that when Jews are under attack, you are never a bystander just staying out of it, staying out of trouble. But I suppose you need reminding.