Melissa
@melissagayle.bsky.social
Writer. NU/VCFA WCYA alum. One day some little fat girl in ohio could be the next Mozart & make a beautiful film on her father's camera-corder -Francis Ford Coppola. rep @LindaCamacho she/her
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Melissa
@melissagayle.bsky.social
· Mar 19
John Garfield Is the Hottest Old Hollywood Jewish Star You’ve Never Heard Of - Hey Alma
Last summer, my grandmother and I watched “The Breaking Point,” a 1950 Hemingway adaptation about a desperate fishing boat captain whose efforts to provide for his family by getting involved with smug...
www.heyalma.com
I wrote about John Garfield for Hey Alma so that the youths could learn about him: www.heyalma.com/john-garfiel...
October 8, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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My For You page on every streaming service: "Look at all these period dramas. Bet you wanna watch every single one of them, you fucking loser. Never met a big ole hat you didn't like, did you?"
They got me there.
They got me there.
October 8, 2026 at 2:07 PM
My For You page on every streaming service: "Look at all these period dramas. Bet you wanna watch every single one of them, you fucking loser. Never met a big ole hat you didn't like, did you?"
They got me there.
They got me there.
I didn't know we had a high school hall of fame but this makes sense; mazel to Vanessa and Jonah! www.cleveland.com/community/20...
Vanessa and Jonah Bayer among 18 inducted into Orange Alumni Association Hall of Fame
Actor/comedian Vanessa Bayer and her brother, music journalist and mental health counselor Jonah Bayer, believe that a podcast they co-host might have helped them gain entry into the Orange Alumni Ass...
www.cleveland.com
October 8, 2026 at 2:38 AM
I didn't know we had a high school hall of fame but this makes sense; mazel to Vanessa and Jonah! www.cleveland.com/community/20...
someone smarter than me could probably write an essay about the popularity of RRR and the way a lot of people reacted to 10/7 but that seems beyond my capabilities
October 8, 2026 at 12:27 AM
someone smarter than me could probably write an essay about the popularity of RRR and the way a lot of people reacted to 10/7 but that seems beyond my capabilities
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Oct 7th as a Jew outside Israel, was a uniquely bizarre and traumatizing thing because you were just glued to watching it happen, and so were all the Jews in your life, and all your Goyish friends had no idea
or worse were unmasked invasion of the body snatchers style as Jew haters
or worse were unmasked invasion of the body snatchers style as Jew haters
I remember going to sleep just after mid-night October 7th 2023, and the first reports were just starting to trickle in, not anything to indicate what was really happening, scattered reports of individual paragliders
its really hard to sum up the before and after of it
its really hard to sum up the before and after of it
October 7, 2026 at 4:19 AM
Oct 7th as a Jew outside Israel, was a uniquely bizarre and traumatizing thing because you were just glued to watching it happen, and so were all the Jews in your life, and all your Goyish friends had no idea
or worse were unmasked invasion of the body snatchers style as Jew haters
or worse were unmasked invasion of the body snatchers style as Jew haters
my amazon about you made three separate notes about my Greek yogurt preferences
October 7, 2026 at 11:08 PM
my amazon about you made three separate notes about my Greek yogurt preferences
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For The New York Times, I wrote about how Rod Serling create The Twilight Zone in part because it was the only way in the 1950 and 60s for him to comment on the subjects he cared about most, and how that's a good blueprint for contemporary media to deal with our surreal current moment:
Opinion | ‘The Twilight Zone’ Created a Blueprint for Surviving Our Surreal Moment (Gift Article)
With “The Twilight Zone,” Rod Serling created a durable blueprint for understanding our surreal reality.
www.nytimes.com
October 7, 2026 at 7:08 PM
For The New York Times, I wrote about how Rod Serling create The Twilight Zone in part because it was the only way in the 1950 and 60s for him to comment on the subjects he cared about most, and how that's a good blueprint for contemporary media to deal with our surreal current moment:
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another day another horrible rape news story
October 7, 2026 at 7:12 PM
another day another horrible rape news story
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Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
www.phoenixnewtimes.com
October 7, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”
just booked xmas flights to FL and I hate how West Palm is DJT airport now 🤮
October 7, 2026 at 6:40 PM
just booked xmas flights to FL and I hate how West Palm is DJT airport now 🤮
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when the world turns on its axis
It’s an extinction level event
those take longer than three years
to recover from.
“Get over it”
we still curse Amalek.
“Get over it”
you can’t unspill blood.
“Get over it”
I never will and never can
It’s an extinction level event
those take longer than three years
to recover from.
“Get over it”
we still curse Amalek.
“Get over it”
you can’t unspill blood.
“Get over it”
I never will and never can
October 7, 2026 at 8:29 AM
when the world turns on its axis
It’s an extinction level event
those take longer than three years
to recover from.
“Get over it”
we still curse Amalek.
“Get over it”
you can’t unspill blood.
“Get over it”
I never will and never can
It’s an extinction level event
those take longer than three years
to recover from.
“Get over it”
we still curse Amalek.
“Get over it”
you can’t unspill blood.
“Get over it”
I never will and never can
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Remembering the Oscar-winning EVA MARIE SAINT — who left us yesterday aged 102 — after a career spanning an incredible 8 decades.
ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)
ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)
October 7, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Remembering the Oscar-winning EVA MARIE SAINT — who left us yesterday aged 102 — after a career spanning an incredible 8 decades.
ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)
ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)
something I'm thinking about today is the utter inability of most of kidlit to give one single solitary shit about Israeli children killed or taken hostage and how it's made me wonder if I'll ever feel like a part of that community again
October 7, 2026 at 5:33 PM
something I'm thinking about today is the utter inability of most of kidlit to give one single solitary shit about Israeli children killed or taken hostage and how it's made me wonder if I'll ever feel like a part of that community again
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A lot of things in the last three years have shocked me, but perhaps none quite as much as the complete inability of large swathes of the left to criticize Israel without lapsing into virulent antisemitism. Such a profound failure on both the moral and pragmatic level.
If you want to know why Jews are suspicious of you when you're just trying to be a well-meaning antizionist gentile, consider that these two things were written by the same man, Guangtian Ha, a (currently suspended) religion professor at Haverford
October 7, 2026 at 11:38 AM
A lot of things in the last three years have shocked me, but perhaps none quite as much as the complete inability of large swathes of the left to criticize Israel without lapsing into virulent antisemitism. Such a profound failure on both the moral and pragmatic level.
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Something ppl need to realize is that almost everyone in Israel--and a good chunk of Jews outside of Israel--knew someone who was seriously hurt or killed by Hamas during the Oct 7 Massacre.
It's like if 9/11 killed multiple orders of magnitude more people per capita.
It's like if 9/11 killed multiple orders of magnitude more people per capita.
Then, as the day went on, we realised it was real
Then a friend asked me if I knew any journalists who could help find her friends brother who had gone missing in the attacks
Then came the immediate surge of antisemitism here
Later, I found out my old housemates cousin was killed in the attacks
Then a friend asked me if I knew any journalists who could help find her friends brother who had gone missing in the attacks
Then came the immediate surge of antisemitism here
Later, I found out my old housemates cousin was killed in the attacks
October 7, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Something ppl need to realize is that almost everyone in Israel--and a good chunk of Jews outside of Israel--knew someone who was seriously hurt or killed by Hamas during the Oct 7 Massacre.
It's like if 9/11 killed multiple orders of magnitude more people per capita.
It's like if 9/11 killed multiple orders of magnitude more people per capita.
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It does feel especially uncomfortable after the jeans/genes ad.
October 7, 2026 at 4:15 PM
It does feel especially uncomfortable after the jeans/genes ad.
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Haven't we Jews suffered enough pagesix.com/2026/10/05/c...
Exclusive | Sydney Sweeney meets with rabbis as she and Scooter Braun think about a future with kids
“The couple is discussing having their own family and Scooter feels strongly on the subject,” says the source.
pagesix.com
October 7, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Haven't we Jews suffered enough pagesix.com/2026/10/05/c...
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This is such a fantastic resource for NYC parents! Providing families with meaningful ways to assess a school's quality is a real material public good in a city where for years parents who can afford to have paid private consultants $$ for this kind of info
I've been thinking about this guide for months, and I'm so happy it's now published.
NYC parents: you probably already know that school admission season started this week! myself and the AMAZING @chalkbeat.org team create this guide for you! [🧵]
NYC parents: you probably already know that school admission season started this week! myself and the AMAZING @chalkbeat.org team create this guide for you! [🧵]
How to Vet a Public School in New York City
Choosing an NYC school for your child? Here’s what to look for and what questions to ask, according to education journalists at Chalkbeat and The City Reporter.
thecityreporter.nyc
October 7, 2026 at 3:08 PM
This is such a fantastic resource for NYC parents! Providing families with meaningful ways to assess a school's quality is a real material public good in a city where for years parents who can afford to have paid private consultants $$ for this kind of info
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There are so many people, so many, that love film and want to dedicate their whole lives to making films, in front of the camera, behind it, in editing suites and casting rooms and makeup trailers. And that these locusts can come in and just devour the industry, take it from us all, is devastating.
“Workers change the sign on the Warner Bros. water tower to say ‘A Skydance Corporation’ on Tuesday”
GETTY IMAGES
GETTY IMAGES
October 7, 2026 at 3:19 AM
There are so many people, so many, that love film and want to dedicate their whole lives to making films, in front of the camera, behind it, in editing suites and casting rooms and makeup trailers. And that these locusts can come in and just devour the industry, take it from us all, is devastating.
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These three years must be a reminder: we cannot retreat into simple binaries.
We can mourn the horrific terror of October 7 and the devastating loss of Palestinian life. We can believe both Israelis and Palestinians deserve dignity, safety, freedom, and self-determination.
We can mourn the horrific terror of October 7 and the devastating loss of Palestinian life. We can believe both Israelis and Palestinians deserve dignity, safety, freedom, and self-determination.
October 7, 2026 at 1:28 PM
These three years must be a reminder: we cannot retreat into simple binaries.
We can mourn the horrific terror of October 7 and the devastating loss of Palestinian life. We can believe both Israelis and Palestinians deserve dignity, safety, freedom, and self-determination.
We can mourn the horrific terror of October 7 and the devastating loss of Palestinian life. We can believe both Israelis and Palestinians deserve dignity, safety, freedom, and self-determination.
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We can counter antisemitism in all of its forms AND reject Islamophobia, anti-Arab hate, racism, and all bigotry. We can advance both Jewish safety and truly inclusive democracy.
October 7, 2026 at 1:28 PM
We can counter antisemitism in all of its forms AND reject Islamophobia, anti-Arab hate, racism, and all bigotry. We can advance both Jewish safety and truly inclusive democracy.
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talking to my 13yo niece about the Baz Luhrmann Gatsby and Romeo + Juliet movies/soundtracks and this is why we need physical media; half the songs are missing
October 7, 2026 at 1:28 AM
talking to my 13yo niece about the Baz Luhrmann Gatsby and Romeo + Juliet movies/soundtracks and this is why we need physical media; half the songs are missing
my true answer is Jeremy Jordan's Miscast performance of She Used to Be Mine from Waitress www.youtube.com/watch?v=chkO...
October 7, 2026 at 1:12 AM
my true answer is Jeremy Jordan's Miscast performance of She Used to Be Mine from Waitress www.youtube.com/watch?v=chkO...
I've been listening to Lisa Loeb's cover of Keep On Loving You a lot this week www.youtube.com/watch?v=evCS...
October 7, 2026 at 1:09 AM
I've been listening to Lisa Loeb's cover of Keep On Loving You a lot this week www.youtube.com/watch?v=evCS...