A lot of socializing today... A bit a rotary, a walk w/Ava, and Steve plus Aaron and ???
Then I bbq'd a lamb roast for lunch and soon will meet Neal for dinner (Friday night!).
Last night had a pretty pleasant dinner w/Rick at Scabbies on the river near SMF. Neat place and supposedly lively on Friday nights ... if dancing can be my thing!
I'm still exhausted from both the trip and the ongoing dog barking from neighbor. Last night (early this morning) as the dog was still doing its barking past midnight I went next door and asked for some quiet. Maybe that was all it will take. I wait and see tonight. I would have liked to go over there during the day but I have not been thinking of the issue until night time.. Dog doesn't bark duing the day!! What time zone is it living in?
And I listened to the following: Atul Gawande | 2025 Harvard Alumni Day
Very good. Inspiring. Sent to me by Steve. Good for hospice oriented stuff AND for political stuff of these difficult days!
And there is considerations to consider about the Mamdani NYC mayoral primary win this week. Who will be mayor and what will happen relative to anti-semitism and anti-zionism? In an interview w/Stephen Colbert:
“There are many people in New York who don’t want to support you because of the Jewish community’s fear of the true and rising antisemitism,” Colbert said. “They’re very upset by some of the things you’ve said in the past, and they’re afraid that your mayorship would actually lead to increased antisemitism; that they believe that it would be more dangerous for them. What do you say to those New Yorkers who are afraid you wouldn’t be their mayor, that you wouldn’t protect them?”
Mamdani responded with the story of a Jewish friend who felt afraid during synagogue services in the wake of the Hamas attack, which he described as a war crime, and the story of a Jewish resident in Williamsburg who now locks a door he left open for decades.
“Antisemitism is not simply something that we should talk about,” Mamdani said. “It’s something that we have to tackle. We have to make clear there’s no room for it in this city, in this country, in this world.”
Mamdani has practiced the appeal in recent weeks, including in an interview with a Yiddish-language Hasidic newspaper, as his insurgent campaign has closed in on the front-runner, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Mamdani is under fire for declining to recognize Israel specifically as a Jewish state and defending the phrase “globalize the intifada.”
Colbert further pressed Mamdani on how he would reduce tensions between the city’s sizable Jewish and Muslim communities if elected New York’s first Muslim mayor. Mamdani has faced scrutiny for his unapologetically critical views of Israel and his embrace of the movement to boycott the country. Jewish voters, historically a crucial voting bloc in the Democratic primary, have tended to lean more to the right on Israel.
“New Yorkers know how to navigate disagreement,” Mamdani said, sharing another personal anecdote to highlight the shared destiny of both faiths. In 2018, while serving as campaign manager for Jewish state senate candidate Ross Barkan, Mamdani brought him to speak at a mosque in Bay Ridge. After Barkan’s speech, an older Palestinian man approached him and simply said, “Cousins.”
“I think that there is this possibility of building a shared life in our city,” Mamdani said.
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