Went to visit my friends at Animal Care Center of NYC up on 110th Street. They’re extremely overcrowded with adoptable dogs and cats. It’s dire. I met Bass, one of dozens of dogs who need a forever home or even a foster. And if you adopt, tell them I sent you and they will waive the adoption fee.
Brooklyn bus stop ads being replaced with guerilla public service announcements.
You can read about how the Forward helped reunite families during and after the Holocaust here forward.com/culture/5552...
How one newspaper column saved lives, reunited families and changed the course of Jewish history
During the Holocaust, the Forward received and published thousands of letters from Jews searching for their family in the U.S.
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Gabrielle (aka my mom, not yet on Bluesky) and I co-wrote an article about our recent trip to Munich which hinged on my great-grandfather’s silver cup - confiscated in 1930s Germany - being returned to our family after 80+ yrs in a Munich museum. #silverlevy #GermanJewish #TheForward
In Germany, a Jewish family is reunited with a treasured family object — but also a sense of exile
For Gaby and Sonya Gropman, a trip to Munich to retrieve a kiddush cup represented a homecoming to a land where there is no longer a home
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An article about the silver levy in Germany. My family was one of nearly 100 that had a silver object returned through restitution after 85 years - my great-grandfather’s 17th c. kiddush cup. (There’s a photo in the article, it’s truly a beauty.)
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Sen. Booker has crossed the 18 hour mark in his historic Senate speech protesting the Trump administration. WATCH IT LIVE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Nf...
LIVE NOW: Sen. Booker will go as long as he can in marathon Senate speech to protest Trump
YouTube video by MSNBC
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I’ve been writing #postcardstovoters re: the upcoming special election on April 1st. #JudgeSusanCrawford 4 Supreme Court #WI. And two vacant Congressional seats in #FL are being filled. If both go Democrat, the House will turn blue. #JoshWeil #GayValimont Sign up with @tovoters.bsky.social ✍🏼
I just left voicemails for both my NY Senators imploring them to do every/anything possible to get #elonmusk the hell out of the treasury and out of Wash DC. ⚡️⚡️¡¡¡Make a call!!!⚡️⚡️ ☎️ U.S. Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121
It’s only February, but this may be the winning post of 2025.
Melissa Good Piggy 🐽 🇺🇦🌻🤍@meltart.bsky.social · 2y agoThey're eating the checks! They're eating the balances!
The Air Force has removed videos of its storied Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs — the female World War II pilots who were vital in ferrying warplanes for the military — to comply with the Trump admin’s crackdown on DEI initiatives. apnews.com/article/air-...
More DEI fallout: Air Force scraps course that used videos of Tuskegee Airmen and female WWII pilots
The U.S. Air Force has removed training courses for service members that included historical videos of its storied Black Tuskegee Airmen and Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs — female World War ...
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By 51-50, we now have a deeply compromised, unqualified, D-list Fox host running the US military at the command of a convicted felon who once hosted a reality show. Just as the Founders intended.
AOC: I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind the presidential seal, but in this country we hate Nazis. Kind of like a foundational defining thing. Two of the foundational things about American history is that we beat the confederates and we beat the Nazis.
AOC: I don’t celebrate RAPISTS, so no, I’m not going to the inauguration tomorrow