Philissa Cramer

RT @AsafShaloo: It's official: Canada revokes the charitable status of the Jewish National Fund — and another Jewish nonprofit that directs…

Tim Walz wrote a master's thesis in 2001 about Holocaust education, in which he argued for changes to how most schools handled the subject. @JTAnews obtained it — and talked to former students about his school's approach to teaching the Holocaust https://t.co/CW9zqlxAuS

JD Vance's chief of staff is a Jewish guy from New Jersey who once interned for Hillary Clinton — and @AsafShaloo talked to his childhood rabbi https://t.co/Mm4tZESfFG

Some breaking news in the Jewish world: Hebrew Union College is ending its longstanding ban on students in interfaith relationships. https://t.co/gA0MMxBPlM

The pain in our dispatch from the streets of Tel Aviv this Israeli Independence Day is palpable. “It’s hard to admit this but I’m not feeling anything. I’m emotionally disconnected,” one mother told our reporter. https://t.co/J90F5OOFAU

This speculative story set in 2053 is the most optimistic thing you can read about Israel/Palestine today. It suggests (as others have) that the tide will turn when women lead (ht @dzkalman) https://t.co/6nVkiqNMy8

If you're invested in understanding Israel, this is the most important story you can read today.

Asaf Elia-Shalev @AsafShaloo

My new investigative story revealing the Israel military's massive shortages of basic supplies, and how soldiers are having to rely on donations of helmets, sleeping bags, night vision goggles, boots, etc. even as we are six months into the war https://t.co/J7ExKEsae8

have never felt more Jewish than realizing that some people would experience this as a draw https://t.co/9XhIxn0Lvn

Now for something completely, delightfully different — with a quiz!

Asaf Elia-Shalev @AsafShaloo

I stumbled upon a very weird and cool fact and wrote a story about it: There's a list of only 29 distinctive Jewish last names that serves as a cheat code for researchers surveying all of American Jews. Can you guess the names? https://t.co/YhCLnJUURh

Back on my shit. Please give sick-night streaming suggestions for someone who likes romcom trash.

Philissa Cramer @philissa

What is the best movie to watch when you’re too sick to sleep and why is it still “30 Going On 30”?

This article somehow does not coin the term "urban boom loop" — where falling commercial rent prices in cities that can withstand property tax declines allow for exciting businesses that draw new residents — so let the record show that I am doing it now https://t.co/zUp75GhBcu

Daniel Perez, officially missing since Oct. 7, was declared dead today. JTA covered his family's gut-wrenching decision to go ahead with his brother's wedding 10 days after the attack. "We are part of a people that sanctifies life," his father told us. https://t.co/zphKJMgeKA https://t.co/wYUUgtrh4m

I was surprised by how much I learned from this @AsafShaloo interview with the volunteer bureaucrat leading the effort to allocate a historic outpouring of US Jewish philanthropy to Israel https://t.co/PtSq0XFMgH

Got up early to get caught up on some things and it worked! Now I know every theory on the internet about the royal family AMA

About that (kind of weird!) antisemitism ad you just saw during the Academy Awards https://t.co/a5IVloV0vM

Last night's episode of "Jeopardy!" allowed me to work Jewish day schools, Ulysses S. Grant, Ovid's advice about Shabbat cruising, R.E.M. and more into a single story. My day is downhill from here. https://t.co/evXiibaurA

How to stop campus antisemitism? US officials, Jewish advocates and anti-DEI conservatives, all say the answer is Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Inside the post-Oct. 7 "Wild West" of Title VI investigations Essential reporting from @AndrewLapin https://t.co/p5IkzK50Fk