Now seems like a good time to share something I wrote several years ago, on Nike, Colin Kaepernick, and the myth of good and bad companies. theatlantic.com/business/archi…

The US Attorney EDNY release on Brooklyn's Central United Talmudic Academy Yeshiva admitting to fraud is in Yiddish and in English

NEW: A migrant unable to legally work in U.S. was paid to help coordinate Gov. Ron DeSantis’ migrant flights, putting the Republican governor’s high-profile political gambit in conflict with his push to crack down on undocumented labor.

miamiherald.com/news/politics-… w/ Sarah Blaskey 🏝

steinmetz is an amazing talent but headlines like drive me nuts. haredim are a new modern phenomenon.

A non-profit is giving away free avocadoes to basically anyone who wants one in the Philadelphia area, because there is a gigantic surplus of them. There is no limit to how many you can take.

whyy.org/articles/phill… HT: Eric Balchunas

Can't make this up: A few clubs at Berkeley Law ban Zionist speakers > an op-ed claims the law school is an antisemitic 'Jew-free zone' > a pro-Israel group responds by driving a Hitler billboard truck around campus > People assume the truck is antisemitic jweekly.com/2022/10/14/hit…

Rapper Talib Kweli on Instagram: 'I remember the last time I really hung out with Kanye West, he told me he wanted to be Jewish.... He said everybody he knows who makes a lot of money is Jewish. Seems like he don't want to be Jewish anymore.' instagram.com/reel/Cjs8J_SJx…

This article on how algorithms are affecting how landlords set rent - enabling new kinds of diffuse collusion and disrupting social ties, encouraging high rents over stable relationships, is fascinating and depressing. propublica.org/article/yields…

SCOOP: We got a memo from American Jewish Committee's Sara Coodin sharply criticizing @KLMarcus's Op-Ed claiming that there are 'Jewish-free zones' at Berkeley Law. The memo highlights tension over the best strategy to combat campus Palestine activism. W/ Mari Cohen jewishcurrents.org/in-internal-me…

They united to oppose an extremist party entering Israel’s government in 2019. This time, leading US Jewish groups are staying quiet. - Jewish Telegraphic Agency jta.org/2022/10/13/pol… via @jtanews

The only clearly written explanation of what an NFT is that I have come across. Via Lucy Bernholz pacscenter.stanford.edu/wp-content/upl…

A year after I discovered the smoking-gun document that proved Stanford introduced a Jewish quota in the 1950s, the university has officially apologized and issued a 75 page report. news.stanford.edu/report/2022/10…

For JTA | Jewish news, I explored the origins of the idea, recently amplified by Ye (the artist formerly known as Kanye West), that Black people are the 'real' Jews. jta.org/2022/10/12/rel…

‘Black people are actually Jew[s]’: The historical origins of Kanye West’s inflammatory comments
via Andrew Esensten jta.org/2022/10/12/rel…

Breaking: NY has found that a Hasidic yeshiva in Brooklyn is breaking state education law by not providing a basic education. First ruling of its kind, and a major rebuke of City Hall's investigation into the school. w/ Brian M. Rosenthal
nytimes.com/2022/10/12/nyr…