Ari Ne'eman

These are some very exciting #HCBS policy measures from @JoshShapiroPA in Pennsylvania - it's nice to see a Governor advancing disability policy wins in this difficult funding environment! pa.gov/agencies/dhs/n…

@DerekPederson3 These are both more or less correct.

Very few people who agree with both of these correct claims: A) The settler movement in the West Bank are modern-day fascists, and the Netanyahu government's implicit endorsement of the recent rein of terror there against Palestinians is not only morally repugnant but potentially catastrophic for the future of Israel and the region. B) The IDF did not systematically target civilians in the Gaza Strip and I still have no idea why that became consensus when it's pretty obvious to me that, even if the IDF were simply *indifferent* to civilian loss of life, they would have easily killed orders of magnitude more people than they actually did kill, and in a much shorter time frame. And it would not even really be that unusual for urban combat.

Temple Israel released photos of the devastation from last week’s attack. It’s hard to look at these photos and not feel like it could have easily been my synagogue instead — an attack on any Jewish community is an attack on all of us. Support rebuilding: temple-israel.org/home.html?fbcl…

“But what do we do when we can’t get to a shelter?” asked one participant, Erella, before answering her own question: “We pray that God doesn’t want us yet.” timesofisrael.com/were-playing-r…

This is a truly bizarre and unempathetic response from a sitting US Congressman to a junior staffer expressing entirely justified concerns about antisemitism. We have entered a truly dangerous moral space today. I don't know how we got here, but I fear where things are heading.

As a kid, when I used to travel to Europe, I remember being shocked at the security outside every single synagogue. Men with huge machine guns, often requiring pre -registration from tourists to attend services, a passport, etc. It felt so foreign, so unreal. So over the top. I get it now.

Just some out-of-time musings into the ether as I make final edits on the book.

If it is an accounting exercise, there will always be someone for whom the math doesn't work.

Nineteenth century America saw a dramatic expansion in construction of institutions for the mentally ill, driven by the well-intentioned 'moral treatment' movement, which believed that humane institutions would render mental illness quickly curable.

אחרי ששמעתי את זה, אני כבר לא כל כך דואגת לגבי העברית שלי

This is significant - approaching the issue of restraint and seclusion in schools as an ADA violation brings new tools to bear on a longstanding problem. edweek.org/teaching-learn…

כשהישראליות והאוטיזם שבי נפגשים

@JakeAuch Proud to have you represent our state. ❤️

A friend in Israel is my age with a young family. They are in a bomb shelter with an infant & children right now. He tells me — ‘morale is high; we’re exhausted & worse but in it to win it. And we feel fellowship profoundly with the Americans; we are part of something bigger than us.’ It’s a fellowship of free people, and one that I hope Iranians themselves may join after decades of brutal repression.

Although nearly 8 million Americans use Medicaid home and community-based services for long-term support, there is more to learn about the best ways to finance and deliver this care, from Jacob M. Sims Speyer, @aneeman, Norma B. Coe, and Ellen Meara nber.org/papers/w34701

The authors of a new Perspective argue that autism research programs should focus on both causes and effective services and supports. Alarmist claims, chasing of debunked theories of causation, and further stigmatizing autism are counterproductive. Read the Perspective by Tara Eicher, PhD, John Quackenbush, PhD (@johnquackenbush), and Ari Ne’eman, PhD (@aneeman): nej.md/4a5QRA4