Marc Reiner

@TommyBeer Have you ever seen him show as much emotion as he did in the first half?

OG the best lol “What is the key for the second half” OG: “Doing it for another half”

@sammorril That was the most emotional I have ever seen him

Evergreen tweet: I fucking love OG Anunoby.

My latest for the Times of Israel: Israel and the Great Partisan Sort in American Politics. I'll serialize it here. Uriel Zehavi’s sweeping essay on the “sorting” of American politics and its implications for Israel advocacy, which I recommend reading in full, is unsettling precisely because so much of it rings true. His central argument is not that Israel lost Democratic support because of any one war, settlement announcement, or even because of Benjamin Netanyahu’s long and increasingly open alliance with Republicans. 1/

@havivrettiggur “You’re darn tootin’”??? That is so unbelievably Wisconsin that it almost negates your deep Israeli identity. 😄

Sorry to write a whole post about myself. But I get this kind of comment sometimes. The accusation that I’m really just American, that I’m from Wisconsin or Ohio. Or sometimes New York, for some reason. I feel like responding to it. Oddly enough, it’s always a critique. If I was from Ohio, they seem to believe, then what I say can be discounted. I don’t quite understand the logic behind the accusation. But it’s worth addressing it. Because for some reason it seems to matter to people. I never made aliyah, Mr. Petti. I was born in Jerusalem. The first half of my childhood was in Israel. My first language is Hebrew. You’re right that I could have stayed in America after high school, but I was never actually American, not culturally or religiously or in my identity. My friends knew it, my guidance counselor knew it. No one who knew me thought I was capable of doing anything except going back. I didn’t even apply to any college. Is this privilege? You’re darn-tootin’ it is. As I keep teaching in my lectures, we’re the most privileged Jews who ever lived, Israelis and Americans alike. But I’m nevertheless very much of one side of that great Jewish divide. I served in a combat role in the IDF, like my father and brothers. Studied Jewish history and philosophy at Hebrew University, where both my parents had gone to school. I never lived as an adult in America, don’t know American music or television. My kids were all born in Jerusalem. So though my admiration for America runs deep, and I can usually (but not always) understand and navigate its conversations — especially when it comes to straddling the deep cultural gaps between Israeli and American Jews — I’m nevertheless not an American. So why do they insist that I am? I like to think it’s a sneering way to compliment my English. My English has always been excellent. In fifth grade, when I still had an Israeli accent, I came in second place in the school wide spelling bee. Not gonna apologize for that. I have a little bit of a love affair with English. (I also did well in my high school French accent competition. Slightly proud of that as well.) But of course it’s not that. They live in an epistemic hierarchy of self-abnegation. The more American you are in their mental world, the less authentic and valid is your identity or opinion. They’re accusing me of being as much the moral cosplayer as they are. This is an aesthetic argument. It’s not falsifiable, but also not serious. It’s exactly what’s wrong with how the American left looks out at the world. So I’ll just respond with this: Even if I were a Martian, those girls you’re defending would still be mocking real suffering while unaware of their ridiculous privilege. In fact, a great deal of the American left’s silence on Iran is part of a larger culture of denying any human experience or suffering that doesn’t fit a preordained ideological narrative. Maybe work on that instead of obsessing about me.

@noam_dworman That said, I still think you should keep at least five layers between you and Naturman.

Dead on correct.

@ChrisMurphyCT The only surprise is you haven’t blamed Israel

The refs have taken control of this game. Fouls are 11 to 4? Ridiculous. Only reason Michigan is in this game.

For the Fab 5. For Trey Burke. For John Beilein. For the Big 10. For Sweet 16 Tommy. For Willy and GBR. For Titus who doesn’t have a basketball program. For the Michigan Man way. For Jolin. For winning with class. For the Mud Bowl. For the Team The Team The Team . For Connor Stallions. For the Block M. For proving those who stay will become champions! For Dusty May. For proving you can have elite academics and athletics. For all the Walmart Wolverines. For every kid that dreamed of going to Michigan but didn’t get in and went to MSU. For greatness. For immortality. For all the Wolverines across the globe. Let’s go get this title for us! #Goblue 🇺🇸

@JLEdwardsIII @ShaxNBA Has it been consistently bad or has it gotten better in recent months when KAT and JB have played better defense?

@ClydeSoFly10 Looking sublime in red bovine!

Knicks vs. Pelicans - 3/24/26 - Grade: A+

@iowahawkblog It would work in Orange County. Ask @Franksantopadre

My god this is pure genius

@noam_dworman @wethefifth Veiled shot at @DanNaturman ?

I did my 5th Column @wethefifth debut. Nerve-wracking to be in with pros.

@HowieRose Howie, thank you so much for the thousands of hours of announcing and companionship over the radio. You are truly the voice of the New York Mets and therefore pretty much a family member of everyone in our community. Wishing you a long, healthy, joyous retirement.

If your country has freedom of religion, but members of one religion need to pay millions on security just to safely gather, then your country does not have freedom of religion.

I no longer respond to these types. But it’s worth pointing out how they rely on equating tragic and regretful errors with the deliberate targeting of innocent children. If they didn’t, they’d have nothing. They have to equate our side’s obvious mistakes with their side’s cherished goals.

The young man on the left is 19-year-old Shalom Lapid. On the right is Mordechai Lapid, a world famous Jewish refusenik who defeated the Soviet Union and risked his life to leave Russia and come to Israel so he can live as a Jew. On December 6th 1993 a Palestinian car drove by them and sprayed the family car with bullets. The father Mordechai and his son Shalom died from their wounds, and three other children were injured. The doctor that arrived on the scene was it close friend of the family; his name was doctor Baruch Goldstein. After his friend died in his hands, many said Goldstein was deeply traumatized by this event. Thres months later, on February 25th 1995 Goldstein would carry out the most heinous terrorist attack ever carried out by a Jew. He would shoot Muslim worshipers while they were praying in a mosque in Hebron killing 25 Muslim worshipers and injuring over 100. Goldstein was very rightfully condemned by every single Jewish organization, rabbi, and the Israeli government. At no point did ANYONE say that "Goldstein had close family friends who died in his hands after being murdered by Palestinians". Why? Because there is never an excuse for terrorism. Seeing so many media outlets whitewash the heinous attack on Temple Israel in Michigan is appalling and a direct continuation of what they have done to legitimize the horrors of October 7th carried out against the Jewish state of Israel.

Jews should not need to pay a “Jewish tax” just to live and worship safely! The amount of money that Jews are forced to pay on security is out of control. They should be able to put this money towards Jewish schools, camps, and community centers. @realDonaldTrump @AGPamBondi @FBI @FBIDirectorKash

@elliotsteinmetz @coachbrucepearl @YUathletics @YUNews I’m 56 years old and can barely play pop-a-shot now, but this makes me want to run through a wall!

Big thank you to @coachbrucepearl who took the time to give our guys a message before tomorrow’s Sweet 16 game. @YUathletics

@bethanyshondark @TuckerCarlson Bless you. I don’t understand why public officials don’t have to pay for their security but centers of Jewish life that are under threat do

I post this after every single antisemitic terrorist attack. Please look up the synagogue closest to you and make a donation. You likely have a Chabad. No, that’s not a secret cabal as @TuckerCarlson claimed. The Jewish community bears the cost of maintaining our security.

“The war in Iran/Gaza has made Jews unsafe.” Where was the war when Jews were gunned down in Pittsburgh? In Poway? In Jersey City? Slashed with a knife in Monsey? When they were taken hostage in Colleyville? There will always be a “reason” for murderous antisemitism. Your job is to understand that the “reason,” whether it be the spread of Covid, opening borders, greedy inflation of rent, or the genocide libel, is in and of itself an antisemitic lie that was formed with the explicit intent to justify violence.

The Jewish community is in my thoughts right now, and I’m grateful for the armed security forces and law enforcement. The global scourge of antisemitism is rampant. The constant criticism targeting Israel and the Jewish community only serves to inflame and accelerate hate.