I think the lines are basically set in terms of ppl who feel strongly about the vax one way or the other, and the persuadables are still persuadable in the middle. So some in that middle will pick up the pace now, I assume. But I wish he'd make a coherent case, which exists.
Good case for adults getting vaxxed: things go back to normal.

Bad case for adults getting vaxxed: kids still can't get an education and adults should continue to fear for their lives.

Not sure how much it matters at this late point, but it's still so asinine.
And also we know schools should be back to normal but they're not because politics and unions. So why are we getting campaign speeches instead of any acknowledgement of the science? This is like Shawshank lifers afraid they can't make it on the outside.
And on the other side, Good argument against the mandate:
It's federal overreach written by unelecteds, and open-ended rule by state-of-emergency decree is a feature of many countries, none of them democracies.

Bad argument against it: the ppl with the vaccine are gestapo.

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I love that this Israeli self-defense group (in NYC, sounds like?) named itself after the Jewish Legion. But as the Resident Legion Guy on twitter, I have to correct this part of an otherwise wonderful piece (I have three separate Tablet tabs open rn, such a great pub)
They trained in Egypt, but many of the expelled were in the US--Ben Gurion was the one who recruited my ggf in Cleveland. Many of the East European refugees thus were not in the Russian battalion of the Legion b/c they had, like my fam, gone to America first.
They were thus put in the North American battalion, mainly the 39th Royal Fusiliers. But language was a problem because the ones who came from America weren't Americans! Americans weren't allowed yet to fight in WWI even for Brits, only resident aliens.
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Absolutely sparkling essay by @b_judah on something I've thought about so much while reading modern Jewish American fiction. Ben puts it into words so perfectly: American Jewish writers are bored by their lives and experiences unherd.com/2021/06/how-am…
I'll add one thought to @b_judah's phenomenal piece, which is that the obsession with Israel by the *characters* in these books takes the form of pilgrimage and redemption. Israel is the escape, Israel is the answer. And yet, this is from Zionism-agnostics in many cases!
For example: Nathan Englander's protagonist in KADDISH DOT COM. Both protagonists follow that route in Nicole Krauss's FOREST DARK, leaving their very successful emptiness for Israel. Same with Cherise Wolas's THE FAMILY TABOR (a better version of Krauss's book). plus--
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Israel's first Orthodox prime minister and (I believe) first Islamist minister will be sworn in today.
Correction: he's not a minister. His significance to the coalition is just hard to put a title on.
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In episode 3 Bibi and Mansour Abbas find out they're related.
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Gonna take this opportunity to briefly explain that the Squad's coordinated talking point--talk to us privately not publicly--is disingenuous and false. Ron notes the hypocrisy of Cori Bush but it's been true of Omar as well, and it's important
Omar's antisemitic tweet about Israeli hypnosis was in 2012. As her local political career took off, Jewish community members tried talking to her about this stuff. She ignored (obviously) and then eventually won her Congress seat in 2018.
She defended both the tweet and BDS, and then after joining Congress arranged a trip to Israel and the territories with a group that had spread the famous blood libel and republished a white supremacist screed against Jews. Here's where things got rocky.
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are we witnessing the formation of the very first Democratic spine? Historic moment.
The question at hand is: Is there one single person in the Democratic Party who supports Jews' right to live in safety more than he or she fears a mean tweet from AOC.
btw the fact that they're even discussing it like this is yet more proof that the official position of the leadership is on AOC and Omar and Tlaib's side, as it has long been. This is the official party position, and there are a few dissenters who are scared to even go public.
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