Join BAR and Lisa Selin Davis for a live chat on the Park Slope Food Co-Op saga
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Journalist Lisa Selin Davis will be joining us on Substack Live on Monday, June 1st at 12 PM PT / 3 PM ET for a conversation about the war in the Middle East section of the Park Slope Food Co-Op. If we run out of hummus, we can probably convince Lisa to engage in a little trans talk as well.
This chat is for Primos only and will be archived afterward for those who can’t make it. You should receive an email notification shortly before it begins. (Not getting our emails? Check your Substack settings.)
Leave any comments or questions below. See you there.
This is my Reese’s Peanut Butter cup of a Substack livestream! Well done!
Two questions:
- I also posted this Ross Douthat piece in a comment on her rundown of what happened: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/opinion/israel-us-public-opinion.html In it he says that he thinks Israel is held to a higher standard because they and the atrocities that resulted in the state’s founding are taught as part of “our” (the U.S., the West, etc) history. I’m wondering if LSD (heh) has considered this? By appealing to “we should be held to the same standards as China or Saudi Arabia”, are we allowing ourselves to be alienated from “American” or “Western” ideals?
- LSD (heh, heh) also mentioned being looked at as an “October 8th Jew” (which will get very confusing when the High Holy Days fall on that date and the “Twice A Year Jews” like myself show up). I’m curious what her relationship to Judaism was, and currently is (no judgement here, bacon cheeseburgers are one of my favorite foods). For that matter: Jesse, what is your relationship to Judaism like? You had a question to the British guy who wrote “Jews Don’t Count” about how the only noticeable Jews were religious ones? That seems odd to me: Barbara Streisand; Groucho Marx; Elliot Gould; Richard Dreyfus; Lenny Bruce; Albert Einstein, et al. But you’re about 10 years younger than me, and maybe that makes a difference? Katie, feel free to speak of your relationship with Islam if time permits :-)
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