I read so many reviews of “NAZA” before finally seeing it earlier today; one detail that I hadn’t expected and found startling was the filmmakers’ camera lingering—knowingly—on the screen above the Tel Aviv Cinematheque playing snippets of a sequence from “Shoah” in a Claude Lanzmann retrospective.

Going to see “NAZA” this afternoon.

Uh oh Tablet took Sharansky — who was oh so helpful whispering into Bush’s ear about Iraq in the 2000s — out of mothballs and unleashed him on Navi Pillay.

Perfect.

Oh, the genocide denial!…

Waking up on the West Coast of the U.S. just now to the news of the Nobel Peace Prize for Navi Pillay. Today will be a long day of people losing their fucking minds.

Perhaps not a great idea to be the party where white nationalists are part of the base.

Joyce. Joyce Meadowcroft is my favorite “Thursday Murder Club” character. Just finished the third book in the series.

Republicans are such asshats.

This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇

My Autumn 2026 course on the Russian and Soviet Jewish Experience at the University of Washington kicks off tomorrow. Check it out.

… Kyiv was retaken by the Red Army and Jews who survived the war in evacuation had begun to return — and the war, then still ongoing, was now fought largely on the territory that had fallen under German control earlier and in Germany itself. 2/3

Today is 85 years since the massacre at Babyn Yar in Kyiv where over the course of two days, September 29 and 30, 1941, the Germans shot nearly 34,000 of Kyiv’s Jews. The Yiddish writer Itsik Kipnis documented the third anniversary (yortsayt) of the massacre in 1944, when … 1/3

Thanks for keeping us solvent! :)

The vast majority of copies sold are paperbacks (glad we advocated / found subvention for the $20 cover price). I have no idea whether that's a lot or a little for a book like this. Do order for your public library or university library, there are some short stories there that you want to read. 2/2