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99% sure this is a setup and these people are being filmed for an episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm”
Protesters flooded Chuck Schumer's phone lines from right outside his Manhattan office, hours before tonight's Senate vote on BAAJA.
They all called at once to tell him to vote no on a bill they say would fast-track data centers.
"We can't drink data," the crowd chanted, holding Stop Data Centers signs.
The Senate's first vote on the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act is tonight.
Video: @ScooterCasterNY | Licensing @FreedomNTV [email protected]
"For reference, imagine the Democratic Party conceding a national abortion ban in exchange for evangelical support to oust Donald Trump. The man who triggered Israel’s political crisis in 2019 over his refusal to sit with the Haredim has chosen to don a shtreimel rather than a keffiyeh to defeat Netanyahu, in effect challenging Eisenkot to a game of chicken."
-@AmitSegal on @AvigdorLiberman
For all the frenzy in the country, the electoral process is far from instant. Last night, Gadi Eisenkot was handed the mandate, and a 91-day timer began.
Thirteen weeks. That’s how long coalition negotiations could drag on: six weeks for Eisenkot, four for Benjamin Netanyahu and three more for the rest of the Knesset.
“No one will be able to meet all the commitments they made,” Eisenkot declared last night at the President’s residence. “And all of us will be required to compromise.” “We must form a national emergency government” he added, “this will require creative and unconventional political steps.”
Eisenkot made three promises at the outset of this election: no Arabs, no Haredim, no Bibi. Last night’s speech gave little indication of which commitments he will meet and which will require compromise and creativity.
For months before the election Eisenkot signaled a creative approach to the Arab parties. His original plan for a “national emergency government” was, in reality, binational, resting on 19 Arab votes from parties that reject Israel’s Jewish statehood and refuse to label Hamas a terrorist organization.
That was until Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Lieberman pulled a sharp 180 and proposed a softer form of anti-Zionist support: the ultra-Orthodox. For reference, imagine the Democratic Party conceding a national abortion ban in exchange for evangelical support to oust Donald Trump. The man who triggered Israel’s political crisis in 2019 over his refusal to sit with the Haredim has chosen to don a shtreimel rather than a keffiyeh to defeat Netanyahu, in effect challenging Eisenkot to a game of chicken.
Eisenkot has already broken one promise; he would like to avoid breaking a second on the chance he is thrown into further elections.
The Yashar chairman is hoping that if it comes down to another election, the man whose 2019 standoff set off five elections in under four years will break and back a government resting on Arab votes. The alternative is that Netanyahu goes into an election still holding the keys to the state.
Meanwhile, one more man stands in the shadows, silent. His name is Naftali Bennett, chairman of Beyachad, and no government will be formed without him. He is not enthusiastic about breaking any of the three promises. If he had his choice of which promise to break, it would likely be no Bibi. But once again, Eisenkot is hoping to win a game of chicken. If it comes to the last week and a unity government looks like a pipe dream, Eisenkot is hoping Bennett will fall in line behind Lieberman rather than face another election with nothing to show for his brief return to the Knesset.
Trump’s attitude toward unity resembles Bennett’s: he’s warm to the idea but unwilling to do much to bring it about. Asked on Sunday about Eisenkot receiving the mandate, the president who endorsed Netanyahu before the election shrugged off the difference: “They’re very similar in terms of their policy.”
That could be an endorsement of unity or an admission that he doesn’t much care about the outcome.
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Dovi Safier retweeted
Worth taking a few minutes to listen to @yechielleiter.
Israeli Ambassador @yechielleiter delivered the keynote address at tonight’s Kinus Hashluchim. His entire speech is must-watch material, but if you only have a couple of minutes, his closing remarks were deeply moving and a timeless message for us all.
(Transcript and full speech👇🏻)
Dovi Safier retweeted
Ambassador @yechielleiter is a treasure. God Bless him and his family.
Israeli Ambassador @yechielleiter delivered the keynote address at tonight’s Kinus Hashluchim. His entire speech is must-watch material, but if you only have a couple of minutes, his closing remarks were deeply moving and a timeless message for us all.
(Transcript and full speech👇🏻)
Israeli Ambassador @yechielleiter delivered the keynote address at tonight’s Kinus Hashluchim. His entire speech is must-watch material, but if you only have a couple of minutes, his closing remarks were deeply moving and a timeless message for us all.
(Transcript and full speech👇🏻)
“I close with the following thought from my son.
I would be happy if I could come just with good news. The good news is this: When Moshe began his basic training—grueling, very difficult—he came home for Shabbos, Friday afternoon, after spending 36 hours ba'shetach, in the desert, with just dates to eat. They had marched for some 80, 90 kilometers, and they were carrying a very heavy load on their back, some 50, 60 kilos.
And his eyes were sunken and he was emaciated, and I said, 'Moshe, how is it that under that weight your knees don't buckle? How do you maintain the weight on your shoulders?'
He said, 'Abba'—my tzaddik said to me—'Abba, I have a patent. I developed a patent.'
'What's your patent, Moshe?'
He said, 'Simple. I add weight.'
I said, 'Nu, Moshe, I'm asking you a serious question.'
No, he said, 'Abba, I'm serious. I add weight. I add the hopes and prayers and dreams of my bubbas and zaides on my shoulders, and then I can bear any weight on my back.'
And he always used to say, 'Abba, if you ask me to sleep more and do less, remember what the Rebbe told Rav Steinsaltz.' Moshe learned in the Yeshiva Tichonit of Rav Steinsaltz.
Rav Steinsaltz told them that he went to the Rebbe, and he said, 'What should I delete from my schedule? I'm translating this, and I'm writing commentary on that, and I'm speaking and writing.' And the Rebbe said, 'Add more.'
Moshe said, 'If you tell me to delete something, Abba, I'm gonna add more.'
And so now I ask of all of the ambassadors in this room, your excellencies: add more. Add a little more.
You're carrying—you're carrying not only for yourselves. You're carrying not only for yourselves. And you're carrying not only for the Jews who aren't carrying yet enough of a backpack on their back. You're carrying for all the generations that have waited for this day, and that are now facing threats once again, as we have throughout our history.
And in order to confront the attempt to annihilate this vision of a better world—of a world that's led by the understanding and the knowledge of a Creator and an arbiter of destiny through a Mashiach—we need to add more to the weight that we carry on our shoulders.
Toda raba lachem."
A great night for the Democratic Party, an even greater one for China.
Jewish Democrats in America: “We must unite against the anti-Semitic Muslim to save our country”
Jewish Democrats in Israel: “We must join together with the Anti-Semitic Muslims to save our country”
“We cannot preach inclusion while punishing dissent. We cannot promise to heal a divided country if we cannot tolerate disagreement among ourselves. And we cannot build a lasting majority by making Americans feel their concerns are unwelcome.
Loyalty to a party should never require abandoning your values or judgment.”
-@HaleyforMI
Michigan has rabbis, lay leaders, day school heads and shul presidents. When it came to finding 500 “Jewish Leaders” for an @AbdulElSayed petition, the @nytimes skipped all of them and found Jaime B., Emily K. and Jessica S. #NewspaperOfNoRecord
NYT: The letter, signed by more than 500 people who identify as Jewish leaders or voters in Michigan, says that the election of Abdul El-Sayed, is “clearly the better choice for Jews” compared with Trump MAGA Republican Mike Rogers.
#JewsForAbdul
nytimes.com/2026/09/17/us/po…
“Demography always defeats energy. As long as the avg number of children in an Ultra-Orthodox family is 6, in a National Orthodox family is 4, and in an Arab family is 3, but in a secular Jewish family is 2.2, you cannot win in the long run.”
🎯 🎯 🎯 analysis from @AmitSegal
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🚨 Haley Stevens’ Jewish fiancé and Dem supporter Jason Turkish has seen enough and is supporting @MikeRogersForMI
“We have never seen a candidate for U.S. Senate act so recklessly toward the safety of Jews in the community as we have seen from Abdul.”
Story from @detroitnews 👇🏻
SCOOP: Haley Stevens' fiancé says he's voting for Mike Rogers for Senate over Abdul El-Sayed
detroitnews.com/story/news/p…
via @nannburke & @detroitnews
Best real-time election tracker I've ever seen.
A brilliant use of AI showing the live feed of Israeli election data where you can drill down by city and suburb and eventually you will see how many votes per city etc....
English on top left
Access here: smilganir.github.io/isr-soci…
Works best on desktop computer not phone
Forget MLB players or owners, by the time these 😴 playoffs are over, it’s gonna be the fans going on strike.
