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On This Day — August 12–13, 1952

Night of the Murdered Poets: Stalin massacres the greatest living Yiddish writers in a prison basement.

Thirteen leading Soviet Jewish intellectuals, including poets, novelists, and cultural figures, were taken to Moscow’s Lubyanka prison and executed by firing squad on Stalin’s direct orders.

They had been members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, which the Soviets used during the war to rally Jewish support against the Nazis.

Once the war was over, Stalin turned on them.

They were accused of “Zionism,” “bourgeois nationalism,” and treason. Their real crime was writing in Yiddish and maintaining a distinct Jewish cultural identity inside the Soviet empire.

Stalin destroyed the last major center of Yiddish literature in Europe.

The Night of the Murdered Poets remains one of the clearest proofs that Soviet “anti-fascism” had no problem murdering Jews once they were no longer seen as “useful.”

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✡️🇮🇱 URGENT: ISRAELI MOTHER & DAUGHTER MISSING The search continues for Mali Yahalomi, 50, and her daughter Liel, 23, who have been missing since Friday, August 7, while traveling in Austria and the Czech Republic. 🇮🇱 Israeli, Austrian and Czech authorities are coordinating the search. 🚨 If you have seen them or have ANY information, please contact: 📞 Israeli Embassy emergency line: [phone] 📱 Search WhatsApp: [phone] Please SHARE widely — even the smallest piece of information could help bring Mali and Liel home safely. 🙏🏻

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see987t

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Dude, I’m exhausted. And an insomniac. Pardon my typos.

waxewod

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Antisemitism isn’t just a Jewish issue; it’s a human issue. It’s our duty to stand against it and speak out.

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Can’t wait to hear what the mayor of the city with America’s largest Jewish population has to say about this.

shmads.y

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His recent interview seemed to state, if I have this right, that people should care about social causes more than they should care about Jews. And that if you want universal healthcare, or if you give a damn about the climate, or if you want free lunches for poor students … that should outweigh the safety of 7.5 million Jews. What’s so unbelievably bizarre to me, but I can’t fucking fathom, is why the DSA would have ANY opinion about Israel, much less make hating it their platform. If they really cared about the people in the United States, they should focus on the people in the United States. Instead, they spend all their time degrading the one tiny Jewish country in the whole world. The only democracy in the Middle East. The only safe haven for the LGBTQ-plus community in the Middle East. The only country in the Middle East where Jews, Christians, and Muslims live together in peace. They hate this country so much. They say not a word about the countries where women can’t drive. Where women can’t sing. Where a woman wouldn’t be able to go see Jon Stewart filming his show without a chaperone.  I have no idea why someone like Jon Stewart can’t see it.

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Grief doesn't announce itself as one wave. 

It's a thousand small ones, each pulling something out from under you before you've found your footing from the last. 

A memory. 

A name you almost said out loud before catching yourself. 

A version of your day that used to include someone who isn't here to receive it.

Somewhere in that current, people start to lose track of themselves.

Not because they're weak. 

Because the mind, left alone with a wound too big to hold, starts running in circles looking for solid ground that isn't there anymore.

Rambam knew this too. 

He wrote that a person who doesn't grieve at all is cruel — but a person who grieves without end drowns in a sorrow that was never meant to be permanent. 

Even he, who measured almost everything in Jewish life down to the smallest detail, left room here for something the law couldn't fully contain.

Maybe because he understood what it feels like when the thoughts won't stop. When you can't find the person you used to be underneath the weight of what you lost.

You are not lost. 

You are only far from shore. 

And the tide, eventually, brings everything back.

@nnahle

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An Irish man named Paddy got into an argument with a Jewish woman in a French supermarket. He ended up saying "sorry Hitler didn’t finished the job" and then threatened to put a bullet in her head.

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A POWERFUL SHOW OF SUPPORT FOR ISRAELI MEDICINE

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On This Day — August 11, 1942

America received the first clear warning of a Nazi industrial mass murder of Jews by gas, and then buried it.

By this point, the Allies already knew about the “Holocaust by Bullets”: the mass shootings that had already killed nearly two million Jews in the East.

What arrived on August 11 was different.

Gerhart Riegner of the World Jewish Congress walked into the U.S. Consulate in Geneva and delivered this cable (photo: the actual British Foreign Office copy, registered 11 August 1942):

“Received alarming report that, in the Fuehrer’s Headquarters, a plan has been discussed … all Jews in countries occupied or controlled by Germany number 3½–4 millions should … be at one blow exterminated … ways of execution are still being discussed including the use of prussic acid.”

His German industrialist source had already proven deadly accurate after correctly predicting the invasion of the Soviet Union five weeks early.

The American vice-consul strongly endorsed Riegner’s reliability and forwarded the message.

The State Department suppressed it.

The British copy only reached Rabbi Stephen Wise on August 28.

This was the first detailed warning of a centralized, industrial plan to murder millions of Jews by gas. The free world received it, and then locked it in a drawer.

They knew what was coming.

They chose silence.