This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss. The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes. Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment. To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity.

As I sit here at my son Neriyah’s bedside, I am thinking about what the most appropriate message would be as we enter the Simchat Torah holiday. Neriyah is still on life support and my first thought is one of immense gratitude for the support and all the prayers on his behalf. Your prayers have given my family and me tremendous strength in the knowledge that prayers matter. Prime Minister Netanyahu visited us in the hospital today to share a much-needed sense of comfort and support. Please continue to pray for Neriyah’s recovery, perhaps next Simchat Torah he will be able to rejoice together with his darling wife and children.

Last week, the Miller Strategies team was incredibly proud to support our Founder and CEO @JeffMillerCA2TX as the 2026 American Friends of Lubavitch (Chabad) Lamplighter Award Honoree! This well-deserved recognition reflects the leadership, values, and purpose Jeff brings to everything he does. We are so grateful to learn from his dedicated and fearless example, especially as Chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council and in the fight against antisemitism. Jeff’s commitment to standing up for the Jewish community and ensuring that Jewish life can be lived openly, proudly, and safely is the embodiment of a true Lamplighter. Jeff, we are so proud to work alongside such a remarkable boss and leader. Thank you for fearlessly standing up, speaking out, and fighting back against antisemitism. Congratulations on this meaningful and extraordinary honor!

Vice President @JDVance at the Republican Midterm Convention calls out Democrats for standing with Hamas: “A few years ago they cheered on the most horrific slaughter of innocent civilian Jews that we have seen in a generation.” Thank you Mr. Vice President for speaking out.

Some personal news I’m grateful to share. After a medical appointment at the Mayo Clinic this week, my pathology results came back clear. I am cancer free. Thank you to my family, friends, doctors, and everyone who prayed for me, checked in, and supported me along the way. A special thank you to President Trump for his unwavering support. I am deeply grateful and will continue to work to advance his America First Agenda.

Props to @JaredEMoskowitz for consistently being one of the only elected Jewish Democrats to admit the glaringly obvious on a regular basis

Symbols of hate, including the Nazi flag, were brought to Kia Center this weekend. But hate will never be welcome here. Our community will continue to stand against antisemitism and all forms of hate to ensure that Orlando is a place where every person is valued and respected.

Tucker Carlson has gone so far down the rabbit hole that he's now adopted Nazi framing on Jews. Not just any Nazis. Goebbels. Hitler. Tucker claimed Jews have "completely hijacked" the U.S. government, painted Jews as rootless with "no real interest in the United States and its future, who aren't tied to its past, and who are basically just wearing [the U.S.] as a skin suit." Tucker further claimed the "skin suit" wearers also control the E.U. and NATO, and are actually responsible for the war in Ukraine — which Putin was "forced" to invade — all in order to "reset the international monetary system." Tucker's rhetoric paralleled Goebbels and Hitler, whether intentionally or not, by: 1) Portraying Jews as aliens "who aren't tied to [America's] past" & have "no real interest in... its future" — akin to Goebbels' "rootless and nomadic." 2) Claiming Jews "completely hijacked" the U.S. government — Hitler claimed that Jews secretly pushed subsequent nations to enter WW I against Germany, and both Goebbels & Hitler repeatedly claimed it was the Jews who got Britain, the Soviet Union, and the U.S. into WW II. 3) Portraying Jews as an alien taking control of a host body by "wearing [the U.S.] as a skin suit" — In his 1942 Reichstag speech, Hitler said that Jews had "driven America to war," as well as the other Allied nations, who were merely "helpless tools of an international world parasite." (In the same show, Tucker also said that the U.S., NATO & EU were "all pawns in someone else's game, obviously.") 4) Suggesting that Jews used control over the U.S. and thus also NATO and the EU to push the entire world into war for financial gain ("reset the international monetary system") — In his infamous January 1939 Reichstag speech, Hitler warned that "international financial Jewry" was trying to "plung[e] the nations into a world war" so that "this rootless international race can profit from the business of war." For those who want to say that Tucker did not mean Jews because he eventually said "Israel" was the puppetmaster, that ignores the simple reality. Increasingly in recent months, Tucker no longer even bothers to distinguish between American Jews (or "neocons") and Israel. He sometimes references "Israel's proxies" or the Americans who are supposedly following orders, but he mostly glosses over any distinction. Consider how he described Ben Shapiro this month as nothing more than someone "created" by Israel, that the Jewish state got him "into Harvard Law" and made the Daily Wire successful by getting Shapiro's company a "deal with Facebook that no one else got." Tucker then made it explicit that he views American Jews as mere extentions of Israel, claiming that Shapiro's views are simply "the opinions of the people who prop up Ben Shapiro, who created Ben Shapiro. This is what they think." Tucker apparently thinks he is cleverly avoiding anti-Semitism by applying Nazi-era tropes to "Israel." (And he loves to trot out a few deeply anti-Israel Jews as cover for "not all Jews!".) But, of course, the "Israel" shtick doesn't work when you make no distinction between Israel and American Jews — let alone when you absurdly claim that they're "created" by and simply follow orders from Israel. Surely JD Vance doesn't actually believe Jews — including those who work closely with him — have "no ties" to America's past or have "no real interest in its future." And Vance must find abhorrent the parasite imagery of American Jews wearing America as a "skin suit." When JD Vance addresses the Republican Jewish Coalition tonight, it's a perfect opportunity not just to "support Israel," but to specifically condemn Tucker's most grotesque rhetoric. Will he do it?