Swamped by war and tragedy, mundane life in Israel still goes on. I was in Tel Aviv last week and tried to capture a little bit of the mood. airmail.news/sh/rlh5pr via @airmailweekly

“Hockney’s pursuit of visual joy” pretty well sums it up. Simon Schama on the pleasure-giving, life-affirming art of David Hockney, who was my favorite living artist … until yesterday. ft.com/content/3862cf23-855b…

My theory has always been that once Marcia Lucas left the partnership with George after Return of the Jedi, his work never really recovered. What else explains the fall off? She gave their films made together the heart and intelligence that was lacking ever since the partnership ended. nytimes.com/2026/06/02/movie… via @NYTimes

“US private spending on manufacturing construction fell in April to $15.2bn, down about 16 per cent since Trump’s second term began, while factory employment has fallen by 77,000 jobs over the same period”. A central promise of Trump’s second term unmet. giftarticle.ft.com/giftartic…

What’s most interesting here, beside that fact that this is by my own rabbi, who I love, is that she actually says the truth about BDS that you otherwise never read in the @nytimes. BDS is not about pressuring Israeli to change its policies, as most boycotts are designed to do. It seeks the elimination of the Jewish state. The Times has always studiously avoided this fact in its own news stories. nytimes.com/2026/06/04/opini… via @NYTOpinion

Nothing against @truahrabbis or @rabbijilljacobs per se, but they are lending @NYCMayor support and cover while he openly advocates for the dissolution of the only Jewish state. Okay, they want to be bigger players in New York City politics. So what are they doing to oppose his clear efforts to divide New York Jews from each other? And how does any of this help Palestinians?

The admission by Hamas & PIJ themselves that their fighters systematically posed as journalists is the most important storyline of the Gaza war. It means every bit of information out of Gaza was curated. It destroys the “genocide” narrative. This is why the story is ignored.

They called it a "civilian" building. The problem? There's a Hezbollah rocket launcher inside it. This is Hezbollah's method: hide military infrastructure among civilians, then cry foul when those weapons are targeted. This is what human shields look like. 📷 @Israel_Alma_org

Some of the constantly updated list of hundreds of Hamas fighters posing as journalists whose deaths @pressfreedom claimed were war crimes. Waiting for some acknowledgment from press organizations and human rights group that cited the their misleading numbers.

Why does this feel like the same media story I’ve read a hundred times before in the last three years?

The best explanation for the Pulte nomination to he Intelligence job. Trump is counting on him to double down on collecting actionable intelligence on his domestic enemies. open.substack.com/pub/timoth…

This is just a lie. Nobody knew Smotrich was going to be there until the middle of the march itself. Lander, who still claims to be a Zionist, announced his boycott of the march days before it happened. Why?

RT @ADL: Yesterday, on the one-year anniversary of the antisemitic firebombing attack in Boulder, the local SJP chapter chose to share a le…

Mr Totenkopf gets caught cheating on his wife and almost immediately starts ranting about AIPAC. Classic.

Watching BBC News right now and Kiev is under heavy attack. Reporter in basement mentions reports of Patriot missile launchers standing empty because US is not supplying new missiles. Shameful.

Israelis and right wing supporters who thought Trump had their back are starting to feel a bit like Flounder in Animal House.

Israel's far-right ministers weren't invited to the NYC Israel Day Parade. They weren't on the consulate's list. The organizers didn't know they were coming. They showed up, walked to the front anyway, and handed Mamdani's boycott a cover story it hadn't earned. Link in reply.

I can’t believe Bibi sent Smotrich to represent Israel here at this moment. Good grief. Was Ben Gvir unavailable? @yechielleiter do you have any response ?

In 1943, the Gestapo finally caught Raymond Aubrac — one of France's most wanted Resistance leaders. He was sentenced to death. His execution was days away. His wife Lucie was six months pregnant. Most people would have hidden. Would have grieved quietly and prayed for a miracle. Lucie Aubrac did something else entirely. She obtained forged identity papers, constructed a cover story, and walked straight into the office of Klaus Barbie — the man history would remember as the Butcher of Lyon — and convinced him to grant her a visit with the condemned man. She wasn't there to say goodbye. She was memorizing guard positions. Counting minutes. Mapping the route the prison truck would take. On October 21, 1943, that truck rolled through the streets of Lyon carrying Raymond and other prisoners toward what should have been the end. Lucie had spent weeks quietly assembling a team of Resistance fighters, planning an ambush with the precision of a military operation. When the truck reached the ambush point, the team struck — fast, coordinated, and without hesitation. In the chaos of gunfire and confusion, Raymond Aubrac was pulled free. Lucie — visibly, unmistakably pregnant — had organized every detail of his liberation. They went into hiding. Weeks later, Lucie gave birth to their daughter in a safe house while German forces searched for them across France. When liberation finally came, the Aubracs didn't merely survive — they rebuilt. Raymond became a celebrated engineer and entered public life. Lucie became a historian, pouring decades into ensuring that the women of the French Resistance — so often unnamed, so easily forgotten — were written permanently into the record. They raised three children. They traveled the world. They argued and laughed and grew old together. When journalists asked Lucie, years later, what had compelled her to risk everything that October day, she didn't hesitate. "He was my husband. What else would I do?" Lucie Aubrac passed away in 2007 at the age of 94. Raymond — who had once needed a commando team to be freed from a German prison — lived on until 2012, reaching 97 years old. In his final years, he continued speaking publicly about the Resistance, about memory, about the obligation to tell the truth. They had been married for 64 years. Not a love story built on grand gestures or perfect circumstances. A love story built in occupied France, in safe houses and forged documents and a prison truck ambush on a Lyon street — forged in fire, and never broken. True love doesn't wait for rescue. Sometimes, it does the rescuing

The most telling part of the genocide debate is that the ICJ & the ICC have never accused Israel of committing genocide. That hasn't mattered to the many people who continue to claim they have. Last month, in an interview that has received conveniently little attention, the ICC prosecutor even told @mehdirhasan that charges of genocide were not brought against Israel due to a lack of evidence. You can watch that interview here: zeteo.com/p/karim-khan-un-in…

For God’s sake, the review mentions AIPAC’s lobbying against Obama’s 2015 Iran deal! Someone tell these idiots it failed. The deal went through. That sure is some all-powerful lobby controlling America!