“Every act of kindness — whether a contribution or simply sharing Beeri’s story — brings him one step closer to freedom, confidence, and joy.” 🙏🏼

With love and heartfelt gratitude,
The Avrutsky Family — Harel, Raya, Carmi & Beeri 💛

#Chesed #ChesedFund #Tzedekah

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Montenegro suspending visa-free travel for Turkish citizens amid unrest in Podgorica www.turkishminute.com/2025/10/27/m...

Dans l’ouvrage collectif « La Nature en révolution », Corinne Marache, historienne à @ubmontaigne.bsky.social dépeint les bouleversements qui ont marqué l’agriculture au XIXe siècle. Et notamment l’irruption de la chimie. Entretien avec l'enseignante-chercheuse.
www.sudouest.fr/economie/agr...

Do you ever go out, and while you're out, you think, ‘this is exactly why I don't go out’?

Remarkably prescient and insightful, On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt is a small book that explains a great deal about our time.

The anniversary edition of the international and #1 New York Times bestseller is out now. Learn more and explore a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

You think you know stress?

When I grew up, if you missed a TV show you just missed it.

Forever.

Episode 4 has arrived - 'The Nightingale' with Danielle and Galeet Dardashti, who tell host Andrew about how they were about to research their Mizrahi Jewish roots with the help of a box of cassettes they found at their parents' house.

familyhistoriespodcast.com/2024/11/26/s... #genealogy #ancestry

3 Turkish journalists file criminal complaints over illegal data leak www.turkishminute.com/2025/05/20/3...

CPJ urges Turkey to safeguard journalist after death threats tied to court bribery story www.turkishminute.com/2025/05/20/c...

Turkey in nuclear plant talks with Candu, energy minister says reut.rs/3SIAxfg

'Cold Dreaming'

Most viable career paths right now:
-Police goon
-Tech fraudster
-Health care crank
-Regime propagandist
-Dentist (unrelated to the others, it just pays well)

DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

FBI seeking information that leads to the identity of the drone pilot whose aircraft collided with a "super scooper" airplane conducting fire suppression operations at the Palisades Fire near Malibu, California. https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/seeking-info/palisades-drone-collision

Where did the Pacific Palisades fire start? A recent visit by New York Times reporters to a site Los Angeles police officers are calling a "crime scene" suggested a range of possibilities, some of them contradictory, for the origin of the fire. nyti.ms/3C3kmof

Turkey establishes cybersecurity directorate after massive data leaks

“Cameron John Wagenius, aka Kiberphant0m, was arrested near the Army base in Fort Hood, Texas on Dec. 20, after being indicted on two criminal counts of unlawful transfer of confidential phone records.”

krebsonsecurity.com/2024/12/u-s-...

“This week's Zemirot is the rendition Hag HaMaccabeam, a unique Turkish Hanukkah song composed by Rabbi Haim Bejerano, who served the Sephardic communities of Bulgaria, Romania, and was the Chief Rab and was the Chief Rabbi of Turkey in the last years of his life […]”

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From BAJA to BANJO to JCOB, we’re here to help you untangle the knot of Bay Area groups that focus on Israel and on Jewish civil rights.

✨🌟✨🕎✨🌟✨

#Chanukah #Hanuká #Hanukkah #HagHaBanot #RoshHodeshTevet

Conspiracy theorists are often dismissed as irrational, but that’s not quite right. Their anxious teleology leads to hyper-reason—a compulsion to explain. What they lack is consistent inductive reasoning. In that critical faculty, cogency is selectively replaced by magical thinking.

“In a #Damascus suburb, the head of #Syria's tiny #Jewish community visits the newly accessible Joba #synagogue for the first time in 15 years […]”

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