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  1. @JewishBook Oh boy...Should I be nervous? 9:05 AM May 29th via web in reply to JewishBook
  2. Intrepid @pdberger interviews Bklyn DA Hynes who insists he's the "goy" for the job of prosecuting child abuse: bit.ly/MVn0LG 7:45 AM May 29th via web
  3. @GabiBirkner We already miss you! @jdforward @nate_lavey @joshnathankazis @Jane_Eisner @pdberger @naomizeveloff 5:25 PM May 25th via Echofon in reply to GabiBirkner
  4. @nate_lavey You're not causing enough havoc on the Americans, you had to cross the border?! 5:07 PM May 22nd via web in reply to nate_lavey
  5. @jpodhoretz Here he seems to have gotten lost on his way to Tel Aviv 2012 and ended up somewhere in a fantasy version of Tel Aviv 1994. 9:10 AM May 21st via web in reply to jpodhoretz
  6. In a look at Tel Aviv, 60 Minutes mentions Titanic, Pompeii, and Sodom. Glad there was no drinking game involved: bit.ly/K7SY47 9:02 AM May 21st via web
  7. Had even more to say about that 60 Minutes piece on Tel Aviv, but my hand hurt from punching the wall in frustration bit.ly/K7SY47 8:58 AM May 21st via web
  8. @NoahPollak It still doesn't explain the vast difference in rhetoric between an ECI ad and his words last night. 2/2 1:10 PM May 16th via web in reply to NoahPollak
  9. @NoahPollak It always becomes personal with you, doesn't it? And that is not really answer. 1/2 1:09 PM May 16th via web in reply to NoahPollak
  10. Who Took Over Bill Kristol's Body Last Night? bit.ly/LbYUfZ 11:49 AM May 16th via web
  11. And, @NoahPollak, Kristol said that the diff. between Obama and Romney on Iran and Israel is "not that great"? ECI stands for what again? 10:40 AM May 16th via web
  12. Curious, @NoahPollak , how do you explain Kristol's words last night? 'I agree with Obama’s Israel policies to a considerable degree.' 10:29 AM May 16th via web
  13. Awesome. I had no idea this was Victor's article. RT @CJR The story behind CJR chair Victor Navasky's "Mad Men" cameo theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/… 2:05 PM May 15th via web
  14. Great piece by @toddgitlin in @jdforward on 50 years since Port Huron Statement, the manifesto that launched the 60s: bit.ly/KHg16i 1:41 PM May 14th via web
  15. @paulmcleary Mine asked to have her nails painted...I think you may be in a less dangerous situation. 8:26 PM May 12th via Echofon in reply to paulmcleary
  • Name Gal Beckerman
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  • Bio Opinion Editor at the Forward and the author of When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry
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