Reposted by Phylisa WisdomAmy Spitalnick @amyspitalnick.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Just vile Islamophobic hate that has no place in this city — and that makes Muslims, Jews, and all of us less safe. 0328
Reposted by Phylisa WisdomAbby Chava Stein @abbystein.bsky.social · 03/03/2026This is NYC: Iftar + Purim = @mayor.nyc.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social breaking the fast on hamantaschen 🎭🥰 Ah Freilichen Purim to us all! 110021
Reposted by Phylisa WisdomRandi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Liam Conejo Ramos was just one of the hundreds of heartbreaking stories of what children are facing in immigrant detention centers. Kids are getting sick, having panic attacks, and getting just an hour of education a day. It's unacceptable and must change. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...nytimes.com‘I Just Want to Get Out of Here’: ICE Is Detaining Hundreds of Children 1289
Reposted by Phylisa WisdomNew Jewish Narrative @newjewishnarrative.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Mazal tov to our friend and colleague @phylisawisdom.bsky.social !!!! forward.com/fast-forward...forward.comMamdani appoints Phylisa Wisdom, progressive Jewish leader, to run Office to Combat AntisemitismMayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed Phylisa Wisdom, a progressive Jewish leader, to lead the Office to Combat Antisemitism. 092
Reposted by Phylisa WisdomThe Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Wonderful news from NYC: We are thrilled to hear that @mayor.nyc.gov has selected @phylisawisdom.bsky.social to lead the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism!forward.comMamdani appoints Phylisa Wisdom, progressive Jewish leader, to run Office to Combat AntisemitismMayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed Phylisa Wisdom, a progressive Jewish leader, to lead the Office to Combat Antisemitism. 0204
Reposted by Phylisa WisdomElad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Big congrats to @phylisawisdom.bsky.social! Good news for NYC and the Jews 🙏forward.comMamdani appoints Phylisa Wisdom, progressive Jewish leader, to run Office to Combat AntisemitismMayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed Phylisa Wisdom, a progressive Jewish leader, to lead the Office to Combat Antisemitism. 08618
Reposted by Phylisa WisdomBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Mazel tov to Phylisa Wisdom on being appointed to head the @mayor.nyc.gov Office to Combat Antisemitism. @phylisawisdom.bsky.social is the perfect person for the job. I’ve had the blessing to watch her lead @nyjewishagenda.bsky.social in many critical moments. 325736
Reposted by Phylisa WisdomAmi Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 05/02/2026There are many talented organizers charting a different course – an approach to keeping our community safe through solidarity, relationships, smart policy interventions, and universal civil rights. @phylisawisdom.bsky.social is a great choice and I suspect she too will champion that model. 9/9forward.comMamdani appoints Phylisa Wisdom, progressive Jewish leader, to run Office to Combat AntisemitismMayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed Phylisa Wisdom, a progressive Jewish leader, to lead the Office to Combat Antisemitism. 0122
Reposted by Phylisa WisdomMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Current state of things: One Fox News host casually declares that Epstein’s money comes from “Jewish billionaires” and a “Jewish banking family,” another responds that he was a “sex rabbi.” www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/jes... 1401968663
Phylisa Wisdom @phylisawisdom.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Always a pleasure to talk to @jacobkornbluh.bsky.social! 061
Reposted by Phylisa WisdomRabbi Jill Jacobs @rabbijilljacobs.bsky.social · 23/07/2025"“God’s name is being desecrated through our sins,” Rabbi Amital wrote nearly five decades ago. “Is it possible to remain silent?!” Today, his challenge tragically rings just as true." My words in the Forward today (appropriately on Rav Amital’s yahrtzeit) forward.com/opinion/7575...forward.comGaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders?A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct. 410044
Reposted by Phylisa WisdomRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 10/07/2025It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you. It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone. 117173924698
Reposted by Phylisa WisdomBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 09/07/2025“Secret police” are your words, not mine. Seems like you’ve been giving them a lot of thought. Unlike NYPD, your agents don’t identify themselves & wear masks that cover their faces. Now they ignore judges’ rulings, too. What law enforcement agents are supposed to uphold … is the rule of law. 1274299186497
Reposted by Phylisa Wisdomnyjewishagenda.bsky.social @nyjewishagenda.bsky.social · 22/05/2025This violence does nothing to help the Palestinian cause, but will raise tensions in NY and undermine the work being done to advance peace in Israel & Palestine. This senseless, antisemitic attack contributes to growing fears in Jewish communities in NY & throughout the country. 2/4 011
Reposted by Phylisa Wisdomnyjewishagenda.bsky.social @nyjewishagenda.bsky.social · 22/05/2025We are shocked by the vile, antisemitic attack last night outside the AJC event at the Capitol Jewish Museum in Washington D.C. 1/4 011
Reposted by Phylisa WisdomRabbi Jill Jacobs @rabbijilljacobs.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Supporting hostages & supporting 1st amendment is not either/or choice. Nor does one have to agree w/what a person says to believe they have right to say it--and to not be deported. Anyone committed to democracy & the Jewish people must reject such binaries. jewishinsider.com/2025/05/dan-...jewishinsider.comDan Goldman: Democrats shouldn’t make antisemitic visa holders into ‘martyrs’The New York congressman said that his party needs to be focusing more heavily on the hostages, rather than the detentions of antisemitic campus activists 0105
Reposted by Phylisa WisdomMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22/04/2025 Correct from the president of Harvard www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u... 8467231499
Reposted by Phylisa WisdomJulie Zebrak @juliezebrak.bsky.social · 20/04/2025JFNA and Eric Fingerhut attacking a statement from the Conservative & Reform movements & others, organized by JCPA, as not “mainstream”…. tells me that JFNA in fact is outside the mainstream. This attack inspired me to make a gift to JCPA. Join me: jewishpublicaffairs.org/donate/ 39232
Reposted by Phylisa WisdomEmily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Did the president come out with strong condemnation of this attack on a Jewish governor on the first night of Pass– what’s that? He gave a brief statement claiming the guy wasn’t a “Trump fan”? And then his admin went back to threatening students over “antisemitism”? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...nbcnews.comWhat we know about the suspect in arson at Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's residenceCody A. Balmer has been accused of a slew of crimes, including terrorism, prosecutors said Monday. 1153
Reposted by Phylisa WisdomEmily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 11/04/2025"I don't know how to read a story of deliverance from an unjust system w/o thinking of how my own country is...attempting to expel someone for their 'expected beliefs,' or of how this is being done in the name of Jewish safety" For @forward.com on Moses & Mahmoud Khalil forward.com/opinion/7119...forward.comPassover teaches us why Jews should stand with Mahmoud KhalilAs Judge Jamee Comans has ruled Mahmoud Khalil can be deported, U.S. Jews celebrating Passover must think harder about what liberty means. 07220
Phylisa Wisdom @phylisawisdom.bsky.social · 11/04/2025I hope that at every single seder, as we contemplate and celebrate our ancient liberation story, we draw connections between what is being done in our names and what was historically done to us. None of this is about Jewish safety, none of this is okay. 031
Phylisa Wisdom @phylisawisdom.bsky.social · 11/04/2025NYJA was proud to join this effort. May we go into Passover thinking about liberation for all people, and each of our roles in that. 020
Phylisa Wisdom @phylisawisdom.bsky.social · 10/04/2025NO THANK YOU, Marco. apnews.com/article/mahm... 010
Reposted by Phylisa WisdomNew Jewish Narrative @newjewishnarrative.bsky.social · 09/04/2025(🧵1/3) DHS can now deny immigration benefits -- including applying for visas and lawful residency -- based on whether or not the current administration thinks your social media activity aligns with *their* interpretation of antisemitism. 1157
Reposted by Phylisa WisdomBend the Arc: Jewish Action @bendthearc.bsky.social · 09/04/2025BREAKING: The Trump administration will begin screening immigrants’ social media for “antisemitism.” This will NOT fight antisemitism. This is simply using Jews as an excuse to move a cruel, anti-immigrant, authoritarian agenda. We refuse to be used this way. www.uscis.gov/newsroom/new...uscis.govDHS to Begin Screening Aliens’ Social Media Activity for Antisemitism | USCISToday U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will begin considering aliens’ antisemitic activity on social media and the physical harassment of Jewish individuals as grounds for denying imm... 7232105
Reposted by Phylisa WisdomAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Tonight we learned that it was indeed Andry, the gay man sent to El Salvador because of his “mom” and “dad” tattoos, who an American journalist saw sobbing as guards slapped him repeatedly and shaved his head. He is an innocent. And Trump sent him to a torture prison. Bring them back! 24596393740
Reposted by Phylisa WisdomJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 03/04/2025It has been two weeks since a Georgia woman was arrested for her miscarriage, and not one major national outlet has covered the story 238124595132
Reposted by Phylisa WisdomKevin Rachlin @sikevin99.bsky.social · 04/04/2025I am a proud Ohioan and stick up for my state constantly. Bernie Moreno does not represent the good in the Buckeye state. The fact that he has the audacity to call the highest ranking Jewish politician ( @schumer.senate.gov) fuhrer is beyond disgusting and antisemitic. All should condemn this. 051
Reposted by Phylisa WisdomAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥 9736363314393
Phylisa Wisdom @phylisawisdom.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Real ones thought about the Stackhouse filibuster episode all day. cc @bradleywhitford.bsky.social 000
Reposted by Phylisa WisdomSarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 01/04/2025People on here who are poo-pooing Booker underestimate the power of storytelling in politics. 390125381327
Reposted by Phylisa Wisdomdarth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 01/04/2025can not believe new york times pitchbot is on blue sky this place is going places i can feel it 615479221
Phylisa Wisdom @phylisawisdom.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Harvard’s president is okay with the Trump admin placing our community at the tip of its authoritarian spear, making us less safe by setting us up as scapegoats. They don’t know how to combat antisemitism, and they don’t actually care about doing so. 083
Reposted by Phylisa WisdomAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Oh my god. They deported a man who an immigration judge had declared was "more likely than not" to face persecution in El Salvador ... to El Salvador, during the big March 15 AEA flights! They outright admit it! Yet the Trump admin's response to a court is basically "oops, well, no take backsies." 8325311036
Reposted by Phylisa WisdomAmy Spitalnick @amyspitalnick.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Here’s the thing: nothing Harvard does matters, unless it’s a total capitulation to Trump — because for him this is not actually about fighting antisemitism. It’s about exploiting real, legitimate concerns about antisemitism to gut our educational institutions and our democracy. 3277
Reposted by Phylisa WisdomIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 26/03/2025When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry. 586236158168
Reposted by Phylisa WisdomElad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 25/03/2025As much as we're seeing cowardice, we should also recognize bravery when it appears. Jeffrey Goldberg knew very well he may be locked up for publishing what he put out, and it's a big deal he did what he was supposed to. It may seem like the "minimum" to some, but today the minimum is exceptional. 738684
Reposted by Phylisa WisdomHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 24/03/2025The only piece of actual wisdom I have ever learned about US politics is "Never believe something is too stupid to happen." 393632582
Reposted by Phylisa WisdomJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 17/03/2025A midwife has been arrested on felony abortion charges in Texas. She faces up to 20 years in prison. jessica.substack.com/p/breaking-t...jessica.substack.comBREAKING: Texas Midwife Arrested on Felony Abortion ChargesThis is Texas’ first post-Dobbs criminal abortion case 19935101978
Reposted by Phylisa WisdomTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2025The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril. 6833801910734
Phylisa Wisdom @phylisawisdom.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Can’t stop screaming this from the rooftops: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/how-... Don’t let anyone tell you this is normal.lawfaremedia.orgHow to Lose a Green CardGreen card holders like Columbia University’s Mahmoud Khalil are entitled to due process before having their permanent residency taken away. 032
Reposted by Phylisa WisdomJewish Council for Public Affairs @thejcpa.bsky.social · 11/03/2025"Multiple things can be true at the same time. We're facing real antisemitism....That doesn't mean that the very real fears & pains of the Jewish community should be exploited to undercut civil liberties, rule of law, and our democratic values." - @amyspitalnick.bsky.social on @msnbc.com 27928
Reposted by Phylisa WisdomYashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil. 17158142715
Reposted by Phylisa Wisdomnyjewishagenda.bsky.social @nyjewishagenda.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Our statement yesterday: 021
Reposted by Phylisa WisdomJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 11/03/2025There's no reason that this should surprise anyone. 320339
Phylisa Wisdom @phylisawisdom.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Proud to be quoted in his excellent, important piece. Jewish safety does not, cannot rely on an erosion of civil liberties. 061
Phylisa Wisdom @phylisawisdom.bsky.social · 10/03/2025NYJA’s statement on Mahmoud Khalil, and the dangerous precedent this sets. 000
Reposted by Phylisa WisdomAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/03/2025The general process (because of course there are exceptions) is that DHS has to file a Notice to Appear (a bit like an indictment) in immigration court, alleging that the person is removable for having violated a specific provision of immigration law. ICE bears the burden of proving removability. 15648185
