Zackary Berger שלום בערגער

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Doctor, researcher, poet, translator. #AbolishICE #BlackLivesMatter prons: he él ער הוא 他 https://linktr.ee/zackarysholemberger

Ka-boom presto change-o, now you've disappeared The box is sawn in half Assistants grab my shoulders, drag me off the stage Thru smoke and glitter and ash Mumble something Mumble sorry, bye My heart hit the ground and now it's broken My heart hit the ground and now I'm hoping, hoping To bring you back and make you stay But I can't change anything I'm gonna sit right down and stop trying I'm gonna sit right down and start crying, crying That's the way I feel these days So that's the way it's gonna be Sim-sala-bim, everything's so dim But my saucer eyes don't blink My pencils are lined up like a firing squad And there's something in my drink Mumble something Mumble sorry, 'night My heart hit the ground and now it's broken My heart hit the ground and now I'm hoping, hoping To bring you back and make you stay But I can't change anything I'm gonna sit right down and stop trying I'm gonna sit right down and start crying, crying That's the way I feel these days So that's the way it's gonna be
Protecting Immigrants: Strategies for Advocacy, Safety and Trust Thursday 5/7/26 3:30-4:30 ET Chesapeake A/B
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RECKONING She was a woman worth a certain amount to her family: a pension or lump sum. All I could say was this is human when I saw her on the street, red gathered at what must have been her neck. "Count the holes in my body" — she faced me: I retched — "some of which I made when jumping." What man reckons what the living owe the dead? I didn’t kill you. My every liberal part aches for the laborer, the immigrant, the seamstress whose callused finger bled. "I’m killed and rise up daily. My scalded heart fibrillates, a sack of worker ants. My words in your mouth are beit-din’s lead."
טײַערע פֿרײַנד, מיר זײַנען זײער צופֿרידן צו מעלדן װעגן אַ נײַער דערשײַנונג אין דער װעלט פֿון ייִדישער ליטעראַטור: „מאָרגנרויט“, אַ דיגיטאַלישע צײַטשריפֿט פֿאַר לינק־געשטימטע שרײַבערס און זײערע שאַפֿונגען. מיר גרײטן צו דעם ערשטן נומער, און מיר זאַמלען ווײַט און ברייט נײַע שאַפֿונגען. דאָס מײנט מען אײַך און אײַערע װערק! מיר װילן, אַז די שײַן פֿונעם מאָרגנרױט זאָל באַלײַכטן אײַערע ליכטיקע אותיות און געדאַנקען. אפֿשר פֿרעגט איר, „װאָס מיינט לינק־געשטימט?“ איז דער ענטפֿער: מיר זײַנען נישט בודק־ציצית, עס װענדט זיך אין אײַער זעלבסט־דעפֿיניציע. מיר פֿאַרבעטן אַלע ייִדישע שרײַבערס װאָס װילן זײַן אַ טײל פֿון דעם לינקן, אינקלוסיװן, קװיר־פֿרײַנדלעכן זשורנאַל אונדז צו שיקן זייערע שאַפֿונגען. פֿרעגט איר: „װאָסער זשאַנער?“ ענטפֿערן מיר: װאָס איר װילט, אַבי שריפֿטלעך. מיר זוכן אַלערלײ מינים שריפֿטן, אַרײַנגערעכנט פּאָעזיע, דערצײלונגען, אַרטיקלען, עסײען, רעצענזיעס, זכרונות און רעפּאָרטאַזשן. מע מעג שרײַבן װעגן פּראָגרעסיװע טעמעס, אָבער דאָס איז נישט קײן פֿאָדערונג, און מיר קוקן אַרויס אויפֿן לײענען װערק װעגן פֿאַרשידענע טעמעס. די װערק זאָלן זײַן נישט מער װי 3000 װערטער. מע מעג שרײַבן אויף װאָס פֿאַר אַן אָרטאָגראַפֿיע איז באַקװעם. מיר זוכן װערק סײַ פֿון עטאַבלירטע שרײַבערס, סײַ פֿון נײַערע. מיר קוקן באַזונדערש שטאַרק אַרױס צוזאַמענצואַרבעטן מיט שרײַבערס װאָס שטעלן זײערע ערשטע טריט. זײַט אַזױ גוט, שיקט אַרײַן אײַערע מאַטעריאַלן ביזן ערשטן מײַ, 2026. מע מעג שיקן אַ גאַנצע שאַפֿונג, אַ קיצור, אָדער אַ פֿאָרלײג. שיקט אײַערע װערק אין אַ גוגל־דאָק (אָדער אַ פּע־דע־עף) צו: ongebn.morgnroyt@gmail.com אין דער טעמע־שורה דאַרפֿט איר שרײַבן אײַער משפּחה־נאָמען און װאָסער זשאַנער איר שרײַבט. למשל: [פּראָזע] לעמפּעל: „פּאַקיסאַנדראַ“ אָדער [לידער] דראַפּקין: „אדם“ אָדער [עסיי] אויערבאַך: „יזכּור“. עס זײַנען אויך דאָ פֿאַרשידענע געלעגנהײטן אָנטײל צו נעמען אינעם זשורנאַל. קודם בעטן מיר, מע זאָל העלפֿן פֿאַרשפּרײטן די ידיעה. טאָמער קענט איר מענטשן װאָס װאָלטן געװאָלט שרײַבן פֿאַר אַ לינקן זשורנאַל, זײַט אַזוי גוט און טײלט זיך מיט דער דאָזיקער פֿאַרבעטונג. טאָמער װילט איר העלפֿן שאַ…
Dear healthcare workers: If I send you a message in MyChart titled “should I go to the ER?” Please don’t ignore my question and tell me the doctor will read my concerns tomorrow 🫠 Dear patients: MyChart isn’t for emergencies.
Humanitarian Medical Care: Reports from Doctors Returning from Gaza - Panel and Q&A event As the humanitarian crisis in Gaza continues to unfold, firsthand medical testimony offers a crucial lens into the realities of conflict, civilian suffering, and the challenges of delivering care under extreme conditions. This panel brings together physicians with extensive experience delivering medical care in Gaza, including Dr. Mark Perlmutter, an orthopedic surgeon with over 30 years of experience in global medical relief, Dr. Terry Jodrie, an emergency medicine physician based in Washington, DC, who worked at trauma stabilization points in Gaza, and Dr. Razan Al-Nahhas, an emergency medicine physician at Johns Hopkins who has been in Gaza in 2024, 2025, and 2026. Drawing on their direct experiences, Dr. Perlmutter, Dr. Jodrie, and Dr. Al-Nahhas will offer firsthand perspectives on the medical and humanitarian dimensions of the ongoing crisis, followed by a live Q&A with the audience. Wednesday, February 25 7:00 PM Mergenthaler 111 (Homewood Campus) Wednesday, March 4 7:00 PM Turner Auditorium (JHMI Campus) This event is co-sponsored by the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism; Department of Political Science; Department of English; Alexander Grass Humanities Institute; Center for Africana Studies; Islamic Studies Program; Medicine, Science, and the Humanities Program; Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Center for Humanitarian Health; Center for Public Health and Human Rights; Center for Advanced Media Studies; Friends of MSF Student Chapter; Arab Student Union; Teachers and Researchers United–UE Local 197.
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AVELO AIRLINES IS ENDING ITS CONTRACT WITH ICE This happened because thousands of people in Maryland and across the country organized.
a flyer directing ICE agents, "fascist clowns," to stop it
a menorah of historical synagogues lit for the seventh night of Chanukah
a menorah lit for the third night of Chanukah
three lit menorahs on the second night of Chanukah
several menorahs each with one candle and one guide candle lit
An Open Letter from Jewish Marylanders in Support of Senator Van Hollen in the Face of Criticism from the Jewish Community Relations Council As Jewish Marylanders, we are writing to express our strong support for Senator Chris Van Hollen in the face of criticism from the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington. Senator Van Hollen is an internationally recognized leader in promoting human rights, and has recently taken courageous stances on issues ranging from Gaza to the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case. As reported in multiple news outlets, JCRC CEO Ron Halber recently called out the Senator’s criticism of Israel in front of an audience of state and local elected officials at its annual Lox and Legislators breakfast. Among other things, Halber said that “on the issue of Israel, I would say the overwhelming majority of the Jewish community feels betrayed.” We are here to insist that this is simply false. We stand with Senator Van Hollen, and with the majority of Americans who support his efforts. The JCRC purports to be the “centralized community relations agency of the organized Jewish community in our nation’s capital.” And yet it has steadfastly refused to acknowledge the existence of the many members of the community it claims to represent who disagree with JCRC’s stance on Israel. In Maryland as elsewhere, Jewish opinion has shifted dramatically. A Washington Post poll recently found that 61% of U.S. Jews believe that Israel is committing war crimes. Many of us deeply appreciate the Senator’s consistent leadership and his dedication to raising his voice against the ongoing destruction Palestinian life and society. Ron Halber and the JCRC do not speak for us. Senator Van Hollen has been and continues to be on solid ground in his criticism of Israel, as seen in the repeated opinions from international human rights organizations and experts on international law. His stance has been consonant with the positions that have made him a …
"For the first time in recorded history, some formal institutions... committed themselves to transcending the division of humanity into men and women."
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Bret: Er, like the House minority leader. Hakeem Jeffries, who, uh, just endorsed Mamdani? Or the Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, whose last name, in Hebrew, means “Remaining Uncharacteristically Mum In Order to Protect Myself From a Primary Challenge from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez”?
told the tree You are my father And dwelt in its shade many days With its split trunk Tangled branches Leaves covering the face of the sun I told the brook You are my mother And dwelt in its waters many nights With its rushing stream Pure rapids Spring of its love I told the mute stone You are my daughter The stone whose blue is like whiteness The stone covered in silence for many days Without a name or bodily likeness
Every Life a Universe Stop the Genocide Oct 7, 6:30 pm West Mount Vernon Place in Baltimore near the Washington Monument
Migrant children have posed a particular challenge to the Trump administration’s immigration agenda because they are entitled to special protections. -- NY Times
Join Hopkins faculty and staff to counter the use of accusations of antisemitism as a cudgel to attack higher education. Letter release and news conference Friday 8/22 1pm Hopkins Beach.
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