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Aryeh Cohen

@irmiklat.bsky.social
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Teacher, writer, rabbi, thinker, social justice activist. Book: Justice in the City: An Argument from the Sources of Rabbinic Judaism Podcast: Daf Shvui dafshvui.buzzsprout.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
The attack at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney today was a vile act of antisemitic terror. I mourn those who were murdered and will be keeping their families, the Jewish community, and the Chabad movement in my prayers. May the memories of all those killed be a blessing.

While we are still waiting for all the facts to emerge, what we already know is devastating. At least 11 dead, including Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who held deep ties to Crown Heights. At least 29 injured. Another Jewish community plunged into mourning and loss, a holiday of light so painfully reduced to a day of darkness. This attack is merely the latest, most horrifying iteration in a growing pattern of violence targeted at Jewish people across the world. Too many no longer feel safe to be themselves, to express their faith publicly, to worship in their synagogues without armed security stationed outside. What happened at Bondi is what many Jewish people fear will happen in their communities too.

On Bondi Beach today, as men with long guns targeted innocents, another man ran towards the gunfire and disarmed a shooter. Tonight, as Jewish New Yorkers light menorahs and usher in a first night of Hanukkah clouded by grief, let us look to his example and confront hatred with the urgency and action it demands. When I am Mayor, I will work every day to keep Jewish New Yorkers safe—on our streets, our subways, at shul, in every moment of every day. Let this be a purpose shared by every New Yorker, and let us banish this horrific violence to the past.
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
My prediction is that within six months of opening day, this will be unsanitary, violent, and the government will say "they cut medicaid we just couldn't provide the services." and yet, the police and courts will continue to dump and confine people there. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
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In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
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Arthur Waskow: In Memorium · Jewschool
One often hears the platitude, “they don’t make them like that anymore” but in Waskow’s case I think it is true. He was a person of his time, but he also transcended his time.
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
I have a poem in the new issue of Ilanot Review. www.ilanotreview.com/flaw-and-fav...
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[Untitled] - Ilanot Review
Aryeh Cohen sometimes you have to ignorethe blinding burning pull of angeroverlook the sharp edges the teethhoned on a stone of short andpiercing jabs and settle on thequotidian. checking the manuscri...
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
It might now be the day after. jewschool.com/the-day-afte...
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The Day After for the American Jewish Community · Jewschool
On the day after, the leaders of these organizations, the rabbis of these synagogues, will have to look at themselves in the mirror and see the tens of thousands of dead Palestinians and ask themselve...
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
These comedians will obviously be cancelled in 3…2…1 Well, let's try again. 3…2…1 … Is this mic working? www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...
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Comedians, human rights groups slam top U.S. comics taking the stage in Saudi Arabia
Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart and Others Are Taking the Stage in Riyadh's 'World's Biggest Comedy Festival,' Which Human Rights Groups Call a Whitewashing of Repression
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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Over 1,000 Rabbis and Jewish Peace Activists in Brooklyn Demand Gaza Ceasefire
Here in New York, more than 1,000 rabbis and Jewish peace activists led a protest Thursday demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and an end to U.S. arms transfers to Israel. They gathered at Brookly...
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Brad Takei @bradtakei.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Trump’s lying (again). The shutdown isn’t about ‘illegal aliens,’ it’s about Republicans refusing to extend health care subsidies for millions of Americans.
Truth Social post by President Donald J. Trump that says: 'Every dollar wasted on non-citizens is stolen from veterans, seniors, and working families. Democrats are about to shutdown the government because they demand we fund health for illegal aliens. - JD Vance. Shut it down.'
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
This horrific anitsemitic attack on the holiest day of the year for Jews should be widely condemned. Violence only begets more violence. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/w...
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Deadly Attack Outside U.K. Synagogue on Yom Kippur Is Declared Terrorism
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Once again the ADL proves that it is a doormat for a wannabe dictator.
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
For a momentary breath of fresh air in the ongoing putrefaction of martyrology read the dismissal of Trump's suit against the Times. (link to the decision in the first comment)
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
There is political violence happening every day in this country. It is perpetrated by ICE, DHS, CPB, FBI and the whole evil alphabet of DJT's militias. Nonviolent resistance is not an option, its an obligation. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...
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Protesters and Federal Agents Clash Outside an ICE Detention Facility Near Chicago
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
This year we are all going into the holiday with a whole in are hearts. May we mix our tears for the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and the Israeli hostages, both dead and alive, with the sweetness of hope that this year we will achieve a cease fire and Palestinian liberation,
Picture of a round challah with a whole in the middle.
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
We are at that time of year when mi-dor le-dor, traditions of Rosh Hashanah challah baking are passed down from YouTube to baker.
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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A Statement From US Jews Opposing Trump’s Attacks on Colleges and Students
The statement condemns Trump’s “disingenuous” weaponization of antisemitism to target universities and deport campus activists.
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
WaPo continues to bow and scrape before the administration.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The note referred to undocumented people as vermin.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Stephen Miller was directly involved in one of the largest acts of organized domestic political violence the United States has seen in modern times, the Jan 6 insurrection. Any news org that doesn't make this fact central is helping Miller deceive its customers.
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
This is what white nationalist autocracy looks like. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Here are the details of Trump's $1.2-billion call to remake UCLA in a conservative image
The Times describes the details, for the first time, of the 28-page proposal the Trump administration has made to remake the UCLA campus.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Nobody should be assassinated. However, being assassinated, does not erase the fact that you were a racist, antisemitic, xenophobe.
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
1. The Jewish establishment needs to sit up and listen to the kids; 2. the last sentence in the story gives away the game. "A group of billionaire realtors, a number of them Jewish, convened an emergency meeting Tuesday morning to discuss ways to help defeat Mamdani." forward.com/fast-forward...
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NYC voters say Mamdani best addressed the Israel-Palestinian conflict, poll shows
The survey showed the democratic socialist is favored in a crowded race, though a head-to-head matchup with Andrew Cuomo remains tight.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
The Onion News Network truck is currently stationed outside the Broadview ICE Detention facility just outside of Chicago.
The Onion News Network truck featuring the headline ICE Opens New Supermax Prison for Most Hardened Toddlers stationed outside the ICE facility.
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Rally just finished in Culver City. #FeedGazanow #stopthewar #returnthehostages
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Israel thinks that banning journalists will prevent the world from knowing the extent of the ongoing death and destruction in Gaza. They are wrong. It will only go to strengthen the perception that something truly evil is happening. Something truly evil is happening. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/o...
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Opinion | Israel’s Gaza Media Ban Is Indefensible
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Cause what you want to do is intimidate the firefighters. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Democrats seek ‘immediate answers’ after reported arrests of firefighters by US border agents
Senator Patty Murray calls Trump’s immigration policy ‘fundamentally sick’ after incident in Washington state
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/08/2025
Looks like... prosecutors found a sandwich they couldn't indict. 🕶️ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
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Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Well another notch in the fascist belt of ICE. A fruit delivery man with no criminal record at all. He was delivering strawberries in L.A. when Border Patrol stopped him. ‘The wrong place at the wrong time’ www.latimes.com/california/s...
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He was delivering strawberries in L.A. when Border Patrol stopped him. 'The wrong place at the wrong time'
Angel Rodrigo Minguela Palacios was delivering strawberries to a tearoom in Little Tokyo when Border Patrol agents massed nearby where Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding a news conference. Minguela ended u...
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
This Sunday I will be leading a text study and nonviolence practice session as part of CLUE's series Revolutionary Nonviolent Activism. Please come.
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
ADL’s Jonathan Greeblatt must resign. He has totally lost the plot, spewing lies in support of a right wing Zionist agenda. This is not making Jews safe. It is arguably making us less safe. forward.com/news/763210/...
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ADL chief attacks Zohran Mamdani, but gets his facts wrong
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt criticized Zohran Mamdani for not visiting synagogues, which he was, and not reaching out to Hasidic voters.
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Jeanine Piro with the goods. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Anybody remember that it was the GOP who said that the govt was not supposed to “pick winners and losers” in the economy?
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Why are anti-war demonstrators in Israel not mentioning god’s dying of hunger? newrepublic.com/article/1989...
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Palestinian Hunger Must Have a Place in Israeli Protest
I attend many moving protests in which Israelis inveigh against Netanyahu and speak of the hostages. But something important is missing.
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Sheriff’s Deputy shot man, who was lying face down on the ground, and was not charged because it was “self defense.” No charges for L.A. County deputy who shot man in back as he lay on pavement www.latimes.com/california/s...
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No charges for L.A. County deputy who shot man in back as he lay on pavement
Yen Liu will not face criminal charges in the 2021 shooting of Adrian Abelar, who had discarded a weapon and was prone on the ground when the deputy fired.
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Katie Unger @kungernyc.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Thousands of NY Jews demand an end to genocide, an end to mass starvation, and end to occupation. Never Again. #JewsSayNoMore @jfrejnyc.bsky.social @ifnotnowmovement.org
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
The New York mayoral election in which Zohran Mamdani is leading in the polls and has a growing following among Jewish voters (especially younger ones), will hopefully be a wake up call to establishment Jewish orgs that their gatekeeping is a political relic. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/n...
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Many Jewish Voters Back Mamdani. And Many Agree With Him on Gaza.
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
ICE is living up to their reputations as violent kidnappers. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...
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Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
I fixed it for you.
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
There I fixed it for you.
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I'm shocked, shocked. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Dropped cases against LA protesters reveal false claims from federal agents
Revealed: records show border patrol gave inaccurate testimony about people it jailed. Prosecutors now face ‘embarrassing’ dismissals
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 18/07/2025
Russian drone attacks the car of the Kherson rabbi english.nv.ua/nation/russi...
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Russian drone strikes car of Kherson chief rabbi
The Russian troops attacked the car of Kherson’s chief rabbi, Yosef Wolf, using an FPV drone, Ukraine's chief rabbi, Moshe Reuven Azman, wrote on Facebook late on July 17.
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
קול דמי אחיך צועקים אלי מן האדמה Your brother's blood cries out to me from the soil. #FoodtoGazaNow #CeaseFireNow www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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At least 57 killed in Gaza in 24 hours as Israel withdraws from ceasefire talks
Israeli PM looking at ‘alternative options’ to the discussions in Doha after removing his negotiators
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Same as it ever was. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...
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Justice Dept. Asks for 1-Day Sentence for Ex-Officer Convicted in Breonna Taylor Raid
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
“…and everyone will wear their underpants on top of their pants…”
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
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Family of US citizen beaten to death by Israeli settlers calls on Trump administration to prosecute killers
Sayfollah Musallet’s relatives criticize US government over West Bank killing: ‘Somebody needs to be held accountable’
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
So apparently the strategy is to bury your heads deeper in the sand and when you come up for air put your fingers in your ears and chant "lalalalalala I can't hear you!" Key takeaway in first comment. ejewishphilanthropy.com/identity-cri...
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‘Identity crises’ grip U.S. Jews, the field of Israel studies, Jewish People Policy Institute fellows find
JPPI presents the two studies in a webinar on Sunday
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
This is happening in ten days or so. I'll be there.
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Aryeh Cohen @irmiklat.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Once again Jewish Insider gets the scoop. The decline in American support couldn't have anything to do with the endless genocidal war Israel is waging in Gaza, could it?
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