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Emily J

@EmExAstris

9 years

Too long for twitter, but that's what screenshots are for. #NeverAgain #RefugeesWelcome

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

2 years

This is a subtweet, but to 100% clear: “original sin” is a Christian idea. It started with Paul and was solidified by Augustine. Bluntly, to Judaism, the whole concept is a perversion of Torah.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

4 years

Ok protip for non-Jews: this is an extra loss for us. She’s one of ours. And this just happened as we are facing the most holy time of the year separated from each other. We need you to get this fight started. We’ll join you Monday.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

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Bedaquiline came out in 2004. 660,000 donated courses in 19 years when there are 500,000 cases of MDR-TB each year is not something to brag about. Release the patent. #PatientsNotPatents

Johnson & Johnson

@JNJNews

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It is false to suggest—as some recently have—that our patents are being used to prevent access to SIRTURO® (bedaquiline), our medicine for MDR-TB. In fact, we have already entered into a collaboration with the Stop TB Partnership’s Global Drug Facility (“GDF”)—the largest

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

1 year

When I was in college, I took a piece of matzah over to the pizza station and asked if I could have some sauce and cheese to make a matzah pizza, fully intending to take it over to microwave. The cook offered to run it through the pizza oven for me so it would get crispy on top.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

3 years

I complain about this every NYE and July 4, but random citizens should not be able to buy explosives and then set them off wherever the fuck they want.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

5 years

I failed the Physics GRE twice and it kept me out of grad school. I helped fly the Cassini mission.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

1 year

Thanks, dining hall cook, for making Passover a little more tasty and making me a little less “weird”. Those matzah pizzas were the best.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

1 year

@Mifield @crippledscholar @Muffin_Chips @BufferingJuffy Every athlete who completes at the Olympic level is, in some way or another, a biological outlier. It’s *why* they are Olympians. People just ignore that fact when the athlete is a white cis man.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

2 years

Today is apparently “Jewish theology for Christians” day, so here’s another that I know some find 🤯: The Psalms are poetry. The Psalms make excellent liturgy, but not good theology. We don’t derive Law from Psalms.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

2 years

There is no “tasteful” way to do a Nazi/Jewish love story. Full stop.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

3 years

Your occasional reminder that phrases like “American Taliban”, “Y’allqueda” and “Christian Sharia” are both islamophobic and a way to dodge the fact that this stuff is very much American Christianity.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

1 year

Ok, I promised this explanation to a couple of people: Why the Jewish God is not named "Yahweh", why you think it is, and why a lot of Jews don't appreciate it when you call their God that:

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

3 years

Christians - there’s literally an ongoing, violent attack going on in a synagogue right now - because it’s a synagogue. The hostages are at risk *because they are Jews*. Talking about attacks on churches right now is *centering yourselves*. Cut it out.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

1 year

@IBJIYONGI @lyft I bet the driver dumped the cat. I once had an Uber driver start driving when my 85 yo grandma was only half inside. He could have seriously injured her.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

2 years

Half my family is Christian. I’ve celebrated Christmas my entire life. How I negotiate celebrating a Christian holiday as a Jew with an interfaith family is a personal matter. But it doesn’t make the holiday not Christian, or me not Jewish.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

1 year

IMPORTANT - there is a *very dangerous* worm that’s propagating itself through common Minecraft mods. If you have any kinds of mods on your game, you need to read this.

Violet Moon

@VazkiiMods

1 year

We have finished rewriting the fractureiser virus document into a more concise and readable repository for users. If you a Modded Minecraft player and are concerned about the virus and want to know what to do, please read: (RT appreciated ty)

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@EmExAstris

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(Obviously I didn’t observe cross-contamination as treyf. I don’t now, either, because I am medically required to instead treat most cross-contamination with chametz as poison)

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

2 years

@DaniRabaiotti So many people not getting that the issue isn’t “mom wants to go to Berlin on a work trip” but “mom wants to go on *every* work trip and when she’s told no she gets mean and manipulative”

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

1 year

I know this conversation has been had before, but I think the rest of the world should occasionally be reminded that golems are a specifically Jewish folklore creature that protected an oppressed minority from the persecution of their neighbors, not generic “robots but fantasy”.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

4 years

I once asked a Christian friend why she proselytized. She said she found great joy in Jesus, and because she cared about me, she wanted me to know that joy. I said, “Ok, but I find that same joy in Judaism.” This had *literally never occurred to her*.

Rishus Cold Yetzer

@JustSayXtian

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@Exists18 2) I shouldn't *have* to tell people I'm happy as I am. It should be assumed. It's no one's job to try to make me change my religious beliefs. My religious believes deserve respect out of the gate, not only when I demand it.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

4 years

Dr. @VinGuptaMD just made an excellent point - you don’t need to be a healthcare worker to give shots. I give myself shots every week. There are people who give themselves shots every day. Vaccinate me and point me at a line of people. I’ll stop when my hands give out.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

1 year

Reminder: there are less than 20 million Jews on the entire planet. We literally cannot handhold 7 billion gentiles through antisemitism on a one-to-one basis. Y’all have to do some of the work yourselves.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

4 years

Yes, I think it is completely appropriate for a father who has buried two children and their mother to want a loving picture with the son he’s almost lost.

John Cardillo

@johncardillo

4 years

Does this look like an appropriate father/son interaction to you?

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

2 years

“Modern America is a safer place to be Jewish than most times and places in history” is 1) true 2) a low fucking bar 3) not contradicted by the fact that it’s less safe than it was 10 years ago 4) not the same as there being no antisemitism here

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

1 year

Jewish men complaining about people using disposable plates for Passover and then responding to women who point out the sheer workload of this holiday with "but it's bad for the environment" can take several seats.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

1 year

Today in things Christians would know if they talked to living Jews: “Rabbi” meaning “person of religious authority” postdates Jesus. It meaning “congregational leader” *really* postdates him. The apostles are basically calling him “Maestro” - a respectful version of “teacher”.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

1 year

I'D LOVE TO. AUTHORIZE ANOTHER BOOSTER.

HHS.gov

@HHSGov

2 years

If your last COVID vaccine was before September 2022, your immunity has faded. Restore it with an updated vaccine.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

2 years

My synagogue President just announced from the bimah that @KosherSoul is going to be our visiting lecturer and my mom and I had a full-on fangirl moment in the front pew. 😂

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

1 year

Jews don't say our God's Name. Jews *can't* say our God's name. We tend not to like it overmuch when other people try. It's disrespectful. And when other people do so by proving they're using our texts with no Jewish guidance or knowledge of context, it's also kinda silly. /fin

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

1 year

Raise your hand if you’ve been somebody’s first Jew 🤚🏻

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

3 years

This is true in every. single. field. No abuser is so brilliant that they’re contributing more than all the people they’ve driven out.

John Hopson

@jwhopson

3 years

We could replace every abuser in the games industry with the next best person and the quality and success of the games would only go up. These people cost us far more talent than they bring to the table.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

2 years

I've probably told this story, but in UG I had a very good friend who was Christian. I asked her why she proselytized. She said "I find great joy in Jesus, and I want you to have that joy." I said, "Ok, but I get that same kind of joy in Judaism." This had never occurred to her.

Zappy Legs

@JewCantWalk

2 years

No amount of explaining your religion could detract from the joy I find in mine. You imagine us as impoverished, but our Gd and our daily practice fill us with riches.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

1 year

This is my favorite version of this meme. Ever.

Rishus Cold Yetzer

@JustSayXtian

1 year

@dust_m23 @QueenMab87 @Uncle_Kemal

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

3 years

Occasional reminder that unless you’ve had extensive genetic testing, you have no idea what your sex chromosomes are. Even if your puberty was normal. Even if you’ve had kids. Nature is more complicated than you learned in 6th grade biology.

Commander Stephanie Sterling

@JimSterling

3 years

Except there are people who *aren't* born in one of those two states, and science already agrees that sex and gender are different. If you wanna toss science around, toss it right, genius.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

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Once during a family vacation some guy on…something wandered into our rented house early in the morning. My dad’s father-in-law found him, and with all his children and grandchildren to protect, this is what that Texan did did: he said “Sir, you’re in the wrong house.”

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

1 year

This is the last day of Jewish American Heritage Month, which has, as usual, gone mostly unmarked except for talking about antisemitism. Talking about antisemitism is important (I do it a lot), but minorities are more than their oppression. What gives you Jewish American joy?

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

1 year

Some Jews also don't say "Adonai" outside of prayer, because that word has functionally taken the place of the Tetragrammaton and they want to preserve its sanctity. They often say "HaShem", which literally translates as "The Name".

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

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One of the nastiest fights I’ve ever had with a mutual on here was when I was mourning my family’s loss of Yiddish to Americanization in the the context of the linguistic damage of the Holocaust and she insisted it was exactly the same that her family no longer speaks German.

Jewish Language Project

@JewishLanguages

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Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is a day when we remember the millions of lives lost to genocide. We mourn those lives; we at the Jewish Language Project also mourn the bounty of linguistic knowledge that was lost to these horrors. #language #YomHaShoah

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

1 year

Other other addendum: In English, the Jewish, Muslim, and Christian gods are all called "God". Similarly, in Arabic they're all called "Allah". They're functionally titles, not names. (Pretty tangential, but it's bugging me because of the convo that prompted this thread)

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

1 year

The number of people seemingly unironically arguing that if a particular goat belonging to a 9-year-old wasn’t slaughtered it would be the end of law and order is a sobering reflection on how authoritarian this country is.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

1 year

The god of Judaism has many names - things we call God - but only one Name. The true name of God is often called the Tetragrammaton in English. I'm not going to type it out in Hebrew - I'll explain why later - but it's anglicized as "YHVH".

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

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Addendum: this sense of holiness around the name of God is also why you'll see Jews hyphenate "G-d" or "L-rd". It's a way to avoid writing out a name for our deity. I personally don't do that because the Tetragrammaton isn't in Hebrew, but it's a matter of personal preference.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

1 year

The Name of God was only ever pronounced by one person - the High Priest - once a year - on Yom Kippur - and in one place - the Holy of Holies, which once contained the Ark of the Covenant. It is too holy to be used in any other context.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

1 year

Sometime after the fall of the Temple and the end of the priestly rituals, the pronunciation of the Name was lost. We do not know how to say our God's true name anymore.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

1 year

My shul has a masked section in the sanctuary (yes it’s not ideal). But today when we broke into four groups to discuss the teaching from 3 lay leaders, the rabbi declared he would be leading the masked group. It’s not hard to demonstrate that shoving us to the edges is wrong.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

1 year

Since we can no longer pronounce the Tetragrammaton, we use substitutes. The most common is "Adonai", which translates as "Lord", and can mean both an earthly lord or a supernatural one.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

5 years

Another company without a single Jew on the design staff 🤦🏼‍♀️

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

4 years

Also note: there is going to be a whole flood of Jews from the east coast who find out about this tomorrow night and Sunday night. Be prepared for the fresh waves of grief and panic.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

1 year

The Tetragrammaton written in Hebrew is considered similarly holy. Anything it's written or printed on has to be specially disposed of.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

1 year

That's a bit of a bad rendering because of some weirdness with characters being reused in Hebrew, but you get the idea. "Yahweh" is what happens when someone interprets what is essentially a mnemonic device literally.

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@EmExAstris

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6) The US government in general, and NASA in particular, should not be subsidizing a company owned by a man who fascist, racist, transphobic, antisemitic, and every other variety of bigot. 3/

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

2 years

I don't think I've shared this in a while, so: Want to know what Jews call the leading Pharisees of the first century? We call them "Tannaim", meaning "Teachers". Want to know what else we call them? "*The* Rabbis".

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

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There is this thing that Jews (including me) do when dealing with antisemitism where we qualify the hell out of everything because any unqualified statement is just a toehold for people trying to justify the antisemitism we're discussing. It's not an easy habit to break.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

4 years

Why on earth would Biden take two popular & powerful senators *out* of the senate? He needs allies in the senate to work with him.

Scott Lemieux🥥

@LemieuxLGM

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"If Joe Biden were truly progressive he would want the two most prominent progressive leaders in the Senate replaced by Republican governors"

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@EmExAstris

1 year

Now you have to understand how Hebrew is written. The alphabet only has consonants in it. Vowels are not always written, but when they are they take the form of diacritic marks around the consonants.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

2 years

I can never decide which is more intolerable to Christians: that Judaism has been around longer than their group, or that we’re still here.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

2 years

I refuse to parse Rabbi Harvey's tweets or debate if he went "too far". I refuse to qualify my statements of support with "well, *I* wouldn't say...". This is the bottom line: Nothing that a Jew can ever say justifies antisemitism.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

4 years

Regular PSA: if you were raised in or adjacent to white American Christianity, you understand white American Christianity. Other religions do not fit that framework, no matter how much you insist they do.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

2 years

It is absolutely amazing how closely the language of evangelism mirrors the language of abuse. “We hit you because we love you.”

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

1 year

Other other other addenda: There's way too much scholarship and history on this to summarize in one Twitter thread, written to address a certain question. I am not an expert. And there is no "one Jewish answer" to almost any question.

Emily J

@EmExAstris

1 year

@JewStats Given different transliteration standards, I think that's an argument that could easily go in circles. I also know there are accepted academic uses for "Yahweh", but I wrote this to specifically address the common Christian use of it as a/"the" name for Gd.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

1 year

@docm77 Ah, kids. So proud to show off new things they have learned, so lacking in filter. 😆🤦🏼‍♀️

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

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As mentioned, "Adonai" is the most common spoken substitute for the Tetragrammaton (there are others). The vowels for "Adonai" are [A][O][AI]. If you stick them on the Tetragrammaton, it comes out Y[A]H[O]V[AI]H.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

1 year

Other addendum: Since I didn't make this explicit anywhere - Y/J and V/W are interchangeable, depending on how you anglicize Hebrew. The way Americans pronounce the letters "Y" and "V" are the sounds that actually appear in Hebrew.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

2 years

New rule: if you’re going to make a statement about “Abrahamic religions” you have to be able to name more than 3 of them. 🤷‍♀️ 🦁⭐️ 📜 ✴️

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

1 year

If your upbringing didn’t include education on what scabbing means, learning about it via letterhead is way better than learning about it via destroyed career.

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Emily J

@EmExAstris

2 years

I’m tired of knowing that every Christian I exchange words with likely hates me, it’s just a question of if they admit it. I’m tired of there being billions of you, but the number of you who I know are actively fighting antisemitism in the church is maybe in the double digits.

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@EmExAstris

5 years

@Shoggoth_Lord @JustSayXtian Yep. We all disappeared after Jesus was born. It’s a big mystery.

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@EmExAstris

1 year

Every time I see a story like this I think of the time a friend of mine from college texted me to ask if I would help with a surprise public proposal to his gf (also a friend of mine) and I literally dropped everything, called him, and said “Have you cleared this with her?”

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@EmExAstris

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The Tetragrammaton has no known vowels (if it did, we'd be able to pronounce it.) However, in book-form copies of Jewish scriptures, it is very common to put the vowels of the word you are supposed to *say* on the consonants of the Tetragrammaton, which you are *reading*.

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@EmExAstris

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In the picture linked, the consonants are in black, vowels are in red. (The blue are trope marks, we are not getting into that, entirely different subject, I just didn't want to make my own graphic.)

Niqqud - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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@EmExAstris

2 years

Also, how I and my family celebrate in our own home is *absolutely* not justification for the Christian supremacy and hegemony that pervades supposedly secular and public spaces this time of year.

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@EmExAstris

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@Meme7604 @sallyKP No, because these people think they own their children. Know what my nurse asked me during these private convos when I was a kid? If I was safe at home. I never had to say “no”, but it’s vitally important for the kids who do.

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@EmExAstris

5 years

I’d like everyone to think about the fact that Judaism has ritual rules for what we’re supposed to do when our neighbors are trying to kill us for our faith.

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

@TheRaDR

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We’re not supposed to “publicize the miracle” of Hanukkah during times of danger. Is that now? My latest, on Hanukkah and the rise in antisemitism:

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@EmExAstris

1 year

Mel Gibson is not a tragic figure. Pretending he is devalues all the cruelty he has perpetrated.

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@EmExAstris

4 years

Next week is Passover. Think Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. We get out the special china, drag kids across the country to grandma’s, cram as many people as possible around card tables & cook for days. And every Jew I know is celebrating alone. If we can do it, so can you.

Rep. Lois Frankel

@RepLoisFrankel

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We've already seen the impact massive religious gatherings can have on a #healthcare system in places like South Korea & France, where thousands were infected. @GovRonDesantis must close this dangerous loophole, especially as important holidays approach.

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I’m not going to RT the speculations about “outting” our top secret underwater sensors, I’m just going to say the following: 1. No intelligence operative on the planet is surprised the US Navy has underwater acoustic sensors.

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Today is Yom HaShoah, a day of remembrance for the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. It’s tied to the day starving residents of the Warsaw Ghetto rose up against the Nazis and stopped the deportation of their families for nearly a month.

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An antisemite is trying to upset a bunch of Jews by saying mean things about Moses. 🤣 Child, we’ve been saying mean things about Moses literally since he turned up in Egypt to say he wanted to talk to Pharaoh. Trust me, you’re not going to come up with something new.

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@EmExAstris

1 year

Reminder to Christians: Christian antisemitism isn’t yours to forgive.

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@EmExAstris

2 years

To be clear, your Jewish friends are not ok right now.

[email protected] is uncivil

@gwensnyderPHL

2 years

To be clear, "88" itself is not a new thing. Nazis have used that (88 = HH = Heil Hitler) for ages, it's one of their most well-known dog whistles. What is new is powerful actors like the RNC and Elon using it in their communications like it's funny and no big deal.

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Of all the discussions that we repeatedly have on twitter, Christians claiming Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” as a Christian hymn is the one that’s consistently the most hilarious.

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@EmExAstris

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Older guys: if you’re “scared” that something from your past is going to come out of the woodwork, that doesn’t mean today’s standards are unreasonable. It means you probably owe someone an apology.

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9) There is absolutely nothing that company is doing that couldn’t be done elsewhere. Because the CEO has jackshit to do with the actual work. 10) So NASA should give the contracts it holds elsewhere and let the actual talent follow the money. If you snitch tag, I block

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@EmExAstris

3 years

Holy crap, a Twitter main character *reflected* and *learned* from his experience. Really lovely to see this follow-up.

Jeremy Schneider

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3 years

After three days of reflecting on this tweet and an evening spent reading at a bar, I have some thoughts.

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@EmExAstris

3 years

As soon as someone says “halachic Jew” I become immediately uninterested in their opinions. There’s no reason to use that phrase except to set up some types of Jews as less than others.

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@EmExAstris

2 years

I honestly think that some of the reactions Jwitter gets are because so many gentiles have never had to deal with more than one or two Jews at a time, let alone in a context that evens the field somewhat.

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@EmExAstris

3 years

@docm77 I find this particularly funny because IMO German is a far superior language to curse in.

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@EmExAstris

4 years

Please retweet if you are a Christian or culturally Christian person who actively checks the calendar for conflicts with holidays other than Christmas and Easter when scheduling things.

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@EmExAstris

2 years

Christians tell people their deeply held beliefs are wrong *all the time* and run screaming when they get the same back. Because power imbalances are a thing and they’ve been protected by hegemony all their lives.

StatsJew

@JewStats

2 years

It is polite not to tell someone that their deeply held beliefs are wrong. But sometimes Christians sometimes have a habit of assuming people in minority religions are stubborn, rather than just a different religion, so direct speech is necessary.

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@EmExAstris

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Yes, all Christian “seders” are hateful. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

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@EmExAstris

1 year

@itsamini @JehanneIDubrow You get a lead apron regardless, unless you are somehow getting an X-ray in World War I.

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@EmExAstris

1 year

Two white Christian progressive men engaged in antisemitism on this site yesterday. Both have been called on it by people of all and no religion. Both have entirely ignored the response. Both of them will face no consequence other than lost followers. And both will do it again.

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@EmExAstris

3 years

I just got a *phone call* from a proselytizing Jehovah's Witness. This is extremely not ok. Infographic from @C_Stroop

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@EmExAstris

1 year

@AuDHDAndrew Matzah pizza is one of the best parts of pesach! It’s always worked fine for me except for the inherent fragility of matzah

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@EmExAstris

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@anonymousprofs Like, I agree completely, but given the number of professors who assume every single student is a liar and a cheat, you have to understand where it’s coming from.

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@EmExAstris

1 year

The Christian who called me a c*nt today is having *so* many people say nice things to her to make her feel better about viciously attacking Jews.

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@EmExAstris

1 year

@diannaeanderson Is she seriously trying to make a point by looking just at the literal numbers on paychecks?

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@EmExAstris

4 years

This is your semi-annual reminder that one of the most important and beautiful services in the Jewish year is built around a prayer about the agonies of forced conversion and how seriously we take oaths. And it’s been used for centuries to call Jews liars.

Rishus Cold Yetzer

@JustSayXtian

4 years

@millzoomer This part says that if some frothing at the mouth fanatical Christian comes and torches your house and puts a sword at your throat and makes you vow to forswear your God and consecrate yourself to another, that you don't really mean it.

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@EmExAstris

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Call me a curmudgeon, but I am firmly a part of the apparently shrinking population who thinks pet dogs don’t belong in grocery stores, and *certainly* don’t belong in shopping carts.

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@EmExAstris

2 years

If you have Jewish friends, they have considered if you would hide them.

Mohammed Hashim

@mohashim

2 years

A few years ago, I helped bring some community members together and a really prominent and successful Jewish woman made a comment that struck me very deeply. She roughly said, ‘for me to truly have trust, I would need to believe that you would hide me’. thread 1/10

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