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by Rabbi Steven Abraham

Look honestly at where American Jewish money goes: Holocaust education centers, memorial plaques, security infrastructure (which we genuinely need and which I would never begrudge), and cemetery associations with endowments that may outlast the congregations that own them.

Then look at what we starve. The preschool that operates at a loss and is therefore always one board meeting away from closing. The Tuesday afternoon religious school whose teacher is paid something between a stipend and an insult. The camp scholarship fund that ran dry in March. The youth program without enough money for a professional advisor. The young family that would join the synagogue if dues and tuition were survivable.

We know how to bury Jews beautifully. We are less certain how to make being Jewish on a Tuesday afternoon in Nebraska feel like something other than an obligation to be endured.

Our tradition is not ambiguous about the dignity owed to the dead. Kevod ha-met is a sacred obligation, so serious that caring for a met mitzvah (an abandoned corpse with no one to arrange burial) overrides nearly every other communal responsibility. Cemeteries should be beautiful. The grass should be cut, the stones should stand straight, and the names should remain legible. We should perform that work with reverence because forgotten graves represent forgotten lives.

But a manicured cemetery is not Jewish continuity. Without the living, it is an archive.

The architecture of Jewish law bends toward life. Nearly every commandment yields to pikuach nefesh, the preservation of human life. The dead, the Talmud says with characteristic lack of sentimentality, are free from the commandments. They have finished their work.

We have not. A community that invests more imagination in those who have finished than in those who have not has quietly decided how its own story will end.

The future of Judaism has never been built in cemeteries. It has been built in classrooms, around campfires, at Shabbat tables, and during chaotic preschool drop-offs. It has been built by underpaid teachers, exhausted parents, patient tutors, and rabbis trying to convince a 13-year-old that the Torah portion in front of them belongs to them too.

Every cemetery exists because previous generations invested in the living. Every gravestone marks someone who was once a child learning Aleph-Bet. This is why Horn’s subtitle matters even more than her title. Her answer to the Jewish question is not death, revenge, or retreat. It is a love story for the living.

She wants Judaism understood as a 3,000-year-old anti-tyrannical movement, a civilization organized around the conviction that no human being is a god and no empire is permanent. That is a story worth telling the Achashverosh’s among our neighbors.

It is also a story that requires actual Jews who know it.

We cannot hand a child a heritage of moral defiance if the totality of her Jewish education consists of a Holocaust unit and a bar mitzvah tutor hired in the spring. We cannot complain that young Jews do not defend Judaism when we have not taught them what Judaism is. We cannot speak endlessly of continuity while treating preschool, religious school, camp and youth engagement as budgetary luxuries.

The greatest memorial we can build to previous generations is another generation.

Horn’s new book arrives during Elul, the season of cheshbon ha-nefesh, honest moral accounting. She has, in effect, handed the American Jewish community an examination of conscience in hardcover.

Read it. Argue with it. Then look at your Jewish community’s budget, which may be the most honest theological document any Jewish institution produces. Ask whether it was written by people who expect Jews to be here in 50 years.

Let the cemeteries be beautiful, but fund the preschool. Pay the Wednesday school teacher. Send the child to camp. Help the young family walk through the door.

which is to say, if you say or write something that you thought was fine and normal. then a marginalized person in the notes goes HEY WTF. pause and listen. it's (usually) not a personal attack, it's someone saying "hey! you harmed me!!". Instead of answering "no I didn't and how dare you call me racist", try "huh? I don't want to hurt people, can you expain?"

to give drash to pshat -

I very often see the complaint,

"how come when I criticize Israel I always get Nazis showing up and thinking I'm on their side?"

guess what, buddy? it's because the language you used in that criticism had a secret second meaning of "I hate filthy Jews!"

to fix the issue of summoning dogs, take the time to learn which things you say are dog whistles, and stop saying them... wow! like magic!

yet again, wish I had a better source, if any outlets would show concern about these things, it would be nice.

A disgraced Palestinian author who has openly celebrated the murder of Jews and Christians has received a coveted book deal from Simon & Schuster, the prestigious New York City publishing house, the Washington Free Beacon can report.

Susan Abulhawa, who has attacked "Jewish Supremacist Vampires" and called Hamas's Oct. 7 massacre "a spectacular moment," has reached an agreement for Atria Books, a Simon & Schuster imprint, to republish two of her novels in September.

Jessica Laino, a spokeswoman for Simon & Schuster, sent a press release in July to the Free Beacon trumpeting the news and praising Abulhawa's "signature lyrical voice" and "nuanced characters."

Laino said Atria would rerelease Abulhawa's past novels Mornings in Jenin and The Blue Between Sky and Water on Sept. 29, 2026.

Atria is a prestigious imprint that has published bestselling authors such as Colleen Hoover, Brad Thor, Janet Evanovich, and Philippa Gregory.

Abulhawa first came to wide public attention months after the Free Beacon revealed that Rama Duwaji, the N-word-slinging, Oct. 7-celebrating wife of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, had provided illustrations for an essay published in the Abulhawa book Every Moment Is a Life.

The essay was published in February in Everything Is Political—an offshoot of self-described "environmental & social justice nonprofit organization" Slow Factory.

Abulhawa's record of posting explosive content denigrating Jews and celebrating violence was evident long before the Duwaji collaboration.

In one December 2025 post on X, Abulhawa wrote that Israelis are "rootless, soulless ghouls" and in September of that year called Israel a "cultureless, rootless human aberration in the form of a manufactured 'nation,'" adding that "we live in the time of jewish supremacist demons."

Also in September, Abulhawa described a pro-Israel commentator as a "lying Jewish supremacist cockroach" and bemoaned "Dual loyalty zionists."

Abulhawa described Israelis as "demonic parasite[s]" in a November post in which she said "Israel must be dismantled if humanity is going to have any chance at a moral future" and in another post said "we will have our revenge someday" against the "sons of satan."

The torrent of hate even led Mamdani—a long-documented opposer of Israel—to condemn his wife's erstwhile collaborator.

"I think that that rhetoric is patently unacceptable. I think it's reprehensible," Mamdani said of Abulhawa at a March 13 press conference, when asked about his wife's artistic collaboration with the writer (Mamdani claims Duwaji didn't know about the postings).

Abulhawa's hate-filled rants have continued even after Simon & Schuster announced the book deal. In a July 31 post on X Abulhawa declared the Holocaust had "lost its meaning" and that "the whole world is sick of hearing about it."

"These clowns invoke that genocide with every perceived slight," Abulhawa complained. "There is an extreme overrepresentation of Jews in every branch of government, media, and culture."

Earlier in July, she suggested that Jews were to blame for bringing the Holocaust onto themselves, and that it could soon happen again.

"The way zios keep boasting about the extraordinary power they wield reminds me of how they also boasted and took credit for Germany's defeat in the First World War that culminated in the Treaty of Versailles and led to the rise of extreme anti-Jewish sentiment. History will rhyme," read a July 24 post on X, which now has a community note to inform users it directly repeats the Nazi-era "stab-in-the-back" blood libel against Jews.

Rest in power Comrade Kozo Okamoto. You were an inspiration to all who knew you and all who knew of your heroic life. You were an embodiment of solidarity and love of the people," Abulhawa posted the very next day.

Okamoto was the last surviving participant of the 1972 Lod Airport Massacre, which left 26 people dead, including 17 Christian pilgrims from Puerto Rico. Lod Airport, in Tel Aviv, is now Ben Gurion International Airport.

Representatives for Simon & Schuster, Atria, and its parent company, the private equity firm KKR, did not respond to requests for comment.

Fun Fact: maga Karácsony játszotta át a Toxikológiához vezető utcát Baánék környezetpusztításához, amivel pedig megakadályozhatta volna a Vidámpark bezárását és az azóta is funkciótlan biodóm megépítését, illetve egy hatalmas parkoló engedélyezését is. A nagyszerű Magyar Narancs épp a következő héten szerepeltette a címlapon Karácsonyt, a ligetvédőt.

én mikor ilyeneket hallok - és a forrás miatt nem hamis vádaskodásnak gondolom - a karácsonyról kialakult képem miatt, hogy jó dolgokat csinál, jótékony hatással van, arra szoktam gondolni, hogy valaminek az ára volt, valamilyen küzdelem része, valami félrébb sikerült terv, és nem arra, hogy önérdek vagy geciség vagy általános jellemtelenség. navigálás a reálpolitikában a maga kockázataival egy mocskos rendszerben, az elérhető célokért, de a nagyobb célt sem elárulva és szem elől tévesztve, nem én csak uwu kis szakpolitikus vagyok egy részterületen, hanem a szabad budapest hirdetője, a pride kirobbantója

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