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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

1 year

Five years ago on this day, I was teaching a class about the origins of anti-Judaism in the Hellenistic world when a Polish-American student raised her hand and said to me, “I am proud to come from a country with no history of antisemitism.”

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I’ve never shared the whole story publicly (and probably won’t do so for a long time). But I’m traumatized by it every day. Very short moral of the story: antisemitism exists. When something happens to your colleagues, stand up. I’m grateful every day to my colleagues who did.

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My first cab after landing in Israel last night was with a Bedouin driver who spent a half hour telling me about his son who serves in the IDF (and showing me pictures on his phone while speeding down the highway) and going on and on, in Hebrew with a smattering of Arabic, about

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When I responded by gently pushing back with some concrete examples, she burst into tears. That night, I received the first of dozens of harassing emails that were part of a campaign to get me fired. These emails were sent to my institutions’ president, dean, faculty, and me.

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1 year

When the President of the institution did not act quickly enough to fire me, she reported me to the Polish Consulate, who conducted an investigation into my anti-Polish activities. Among the accusations against me: I had used the phrase “Polish concentration camp” (I had not).

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1 year

The incident divided the class into two parts: those who vocally supported her, and those who were horrified by what was happening but were too afraid to speak.

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

2 years

Yes Dave there are lots of Jews in Hollywood because 1. They were excluded from nearly every other major industry and 2. They brought technology with them from Europe to advance the field of movie making. That’s not a conspiracy. That’s survival

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Malka Simkovich

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3 months

Yesterday afternoon, my children and their friends were playing outside our house. It was a beautiful Passover afternoon and my husband and I, along with close friends of ours from Boston, were enjoying quality time in our kitchen. As our children played, a school bus pulled out

Joel Pollak

@joelpollak

3 months

The story you're not hearing is about the feeling within the Jewish community, expressed vocally in synagogues the last two days, that American Jews have been abandoned by the country's leaders to the whims of ignorant, entitled thugs who are behaving like Brownshirts on campus.

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1 year

@RzczNIEpsplt I don’t want anyone to ever feel pressured to apologize on behalf of someone else in their ethic, national, or religious group. Nevertheless, your comment means a lot to me- thank you

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1 year

@Jerseyguy427 wow...that's awful. just to clarify, I didn't find my student's initial claim to be antisemitic (though it was naive and easily refutable). The antisemitism came in her reaction to my response, which drew from conspiracy theories and accused me of having powerful sway over others

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5 months

I just left my house in Skokie and passed a car adorned with Palestinian flags and the Hamas flag. The drivers had their windows halfway down and were wearing Hamas headbands. They were laughing and yelling, though I couldn’t hear what they were saying. I live in a neighborhood

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1 year

@ShlomoFelber This is what she was taught and she was absolutely convinced (or chose to be convinced..)

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

10 months

If you don't know that before 2005 Israeli Jews lived in Gaza and that Israel forced its people out in an attempt to generate a peace deal and that since that time Hamas has used Gaza as a launching pad to kill Israelis, for the love of God stop tweeting

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5 months

Jonathan Glazer’s statement about “the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict” is clearly nonsensical (and it boggles me that he wrote it in advance), but it’s a sentence that could only be written when one has inculcated the idea that Jews and their

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

4 months

One of the most disturbing aspects of being a Jew in America today is the shock of watching so many liberally-minded non-Jewish friends refuse to name antisemitism unless it comes from the right. With the exception of a tiny brave few, the majority have refused to meet this

Haviv Rettig Gur

@havivrettiggur

4 months

This has been my exact experience in meeting American Jews over the past six months. From right to pretty deep on the left, you encounter the same shift in Jewish consciousness. The argument that the new anti-Zionism is functionally antisemitic isn’t a talking point. Most of the

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Malka Simkovich

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8 months

I hope the hostages never find out how many people in the world turned their backs on them, refused to see their pain, and have closed their eyes to the pain of those who love them. I truly believe that the knowledge of this rejection has changed most Jews forever.

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

5 months

@PeterTobias8 @CHSommers I’m aware. Look at the flag attached to the back of the car.

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

1 year

Sorry that this has to be said (and vaguely, since it involves a colleague) but the claim that 1st century Jews didn't care for the vulnerable exists primarily in (Christian) academic circles where unfamiliarity with the actual texts that Jews wrote at this time is tolerated 1/3

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

2 months

@Heidi__Matthews @JustinTrudeau I’m so glad you’re openly stating your position that condemning Palestinian men who rape Jewish girls is racist. Reserving your moral indignation not for the rapists but for those who condemn them makes it perfectly clear that your position aligns with Nazis. Thanks for the

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

9 months

Please, if you are a non-Jewish person with Jewish colleagues and you haven't reached out to them since October 7, do not email them with a request that begins, "I hope you're doing well!" Literally not a single Jew who works on a campus, or anywhere else, is doing well

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

10 months

Blaming the Jews for their own murder is the oldest story in the book. But good news - you're not an illiterate serf in medieval England. Stop falling for it.

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

3 months

@GeorgFrank999 I know it intellectually but it means a lot to hear it. Thank you!

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

2 years

To friends who say birding is pointless I present my teenage son's insight that Noah sent the raven because it's a scavenger and he expected it to return only with food from the dead, but then forced himself to hope in the possibility of life by sending out the plant-eating dove

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

8 months

It's a good time to remember that Chanukah is not actually about a culture clash between Judaism and Hellenism - Hellenism was around for almost 150 years before Jews in Judea rebelled against the Syrian Greeks. Rather than being about a culture clash, Chanukah is about the

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

12 days

I’m incredibly excited to be joining the Jewish Publication Society as its incoming Director and Editor-in-Chief. This organization is deeply personal to me: my first internship was at JPS’s Philadelphia offices in 2003, and its director, Rabbi Barry Schwartz, commissioned my

The Jewish Publication Society

@JewishPub

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JPS Welcomes New Director and Editor-in-Chief Dr. Malka Z. Simkovich The Jewish Publication Society is pleased to welcome our new Director and Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Malka Z. Simkovich, who will join JPS on September 1, 2024. Dr. Simkovich joins JPS after serving as the

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

9 months

I miss the five minutes when the world felt bad that Jewish babies and children were mutilated, raped, beheaded, tortured, abducted, and killed, and it almost seemed - just for a second - that most decent people were going to publicly stand with us in our anguish

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

1 year

@RzczNIEpsplt I’m annoyed by my typo in the response above, which is obviously supposed to read “ethnic,” not “ethic” :)

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

1 year

Thinking about Judaism only through the lens of texts that belong to the Christian tradition (even those that were written prior to the parting of the ways) will inevitably present a polemical and problematic false binary 2/3

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

2 years

Academics: Tenure is a meaningless vestige of the medieval feudal system which functions to bond undercompensated apprentices to their guild by cultivating a sense of obligation and long-term commitment! Same academics: I got tenure!!!! also - I got tenure!!!!!

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

3 months

I’m boarding a flight from Chicago to New York with a couple dozen Sephardi kids- boys wearing gold necklaces and kipas and girls wearing “bring them home” dog tags, most of whom (I’d bet) have grandparents who were born in Iran and Syria. Kudos to these kids for wearing their

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1 year

Given how the Church has persecuted Jews, this binary ironically presents Christianity as a religion of love that "fixes" Jewish misanthropy. 3/3

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Malka Simkovich

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1 year

and I'm baffled that this still needs to be said 4/3

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Malka Simkovich

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6 months

The word "indiscriminate" is cropping up in many editorials to describe what Israel is doing in Gaza. As soon as I see it, I stop reading because in using it, the writer of the editorial has shown him or herself to be unserious. Such writers are using the word

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Malka Simkovich

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10 months

Greetings to the colleague who has blocked me and is now posting tweets that support Hamas's "resistance" and that wish for the destruction of Israel, and who fancies herself an advocate for the oppressed while celebrating terrorism and bloodshed: I've got screenshots 😘😘

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

9 months

Academia: doing intellectual somersaults to elide the murder of Israeli citizens, to ignore the theological Jew-hatred that drives it, to place blame for Nazi-like torture of Jews on Jews themselves, and to throw Jewish students and professors who disagree to the curb since 1967

Katherine Franke

@ProfKFranke

9 months

Columbia/Barnard faculty have signed an open letter supporting our students, making the point that identifying with the suffering of Gazans and historically contextualizing the current war in Israel/Gaza is not anti-Semitic. Please read and share.

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1 year

@GoGoogleMe oh my. did you point that out, and was she receptive?

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@Malka_Simkovich

8 months

Antisemitism is when you hate Jews so much that against all proof and logic you insist that it’s more likely that Jews spent their own money, time, and effort to intricately stage their own murder, torture, and abduction rather than believing the claims made by Hamas that they

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Malka Simkovich

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3 years

At an interfaith event this fall a woman asked me “what lesson can we learn from the Holocaust?” I answered that the only lesson is to stop allegorizing the Jewish people by thinking about them as learning opportunities. We’re not an allegory. Stand up for us. Speak out.

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

10 months

The cover of my forthcoming book, Letters From Home, is out, and it's gorgeous! Pre-order is available at , and more details about book events and signings are coming soon. Thank you to the team at @psupress for their amazing work!

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

1 year

Fun getting these messages. To those suggesting I was making my story up: this was a public event that is easily verifiable, and I still have my student's emails, that were threatening just like this one. Messages like this only confirm that every word I wrote is true.

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

2 years

I can’t tell you how many Orthodox Jewish friends have dismissed my work (without reading it) and have asked why I don’t work on something “safer.” Maybe the tides are changing. Either way, endorsements like these keep me going.

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

9 months

Looking for a way to measure the moral integrity of humanity? Analyze people's reactions to a Gaza hospital exploding in relation to whether they think Israel did it. When it's thought to be Israel, it's a Nazi genocide. When it's proven to be Hamas, it's an unfortunate tragedy

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

9 months

"Several people driving by shout obscenities at the Jewish participants, including, “kill the babies!” Three blocks away from my house.

Jews in Chicago suburb use empty strollers to spotlight children held hostage in Gaza

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www.timesofisrael.com

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

1 year

Contract signed. Homeland and Diaspora in Jewish Antiquity is coming out with @Eisenbrauns Press in 2024!

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

9 months

You don’t have to be Jewish to care about the stolen babies, beheaded children, raped women, and the joyous celebrations that took place on the streets of Gaza in response to the news of the massacre. No one is free until everyone is free of Hamas

Susan Sarandon

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9 months

You don’t have to be Palestinian to care about what’s happening in Gaza. I stand with Palestine. No one is free until everyone is free.

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1 year

@dieworkwear I love your posts and follow you regularly. But as a scholar of Second Temple Judaism, you are way off base. There is not a single Jewish text that would back up this outrageous and anti-Jewish claim.

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

10 months

There are now calls throughout the world, including Chicago, to engage in violent acts against Jews. Think this through. People are calling for Jews to be killed to punish other Jews for fighting back against being killed. There are no calls by Jews to other Jews to take revenge.

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

4 months

@1rorycowan Thank you for making us Jews feel a tiny bit less alone.

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

1 year

@rpotter200 @brumyehuda interesting you bring that up - I specifically responded to her by mentioning the Kielce and Jedwabne pogroms. In later emails she insisted that these programs never happened

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Malka Simkovich

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1 year

I’m more annoyed by that awful comma, but it’s worth clarifying that in this ad, “Orthodox” clearly means rigid, antiquated, monolithic, and unevolving. Since Orthodox Jews would reject these adjectives in their self-definition, this line is problematic. 1/2

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Malka Simkovich

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2 months

Want to know what happened after a child screamed "The Nazis are coming for you!" from a school bus across the street, outside of Bessie Rhodes school, at our children who were playing outside our front yard? Nothing. Nothing happened. After repeatedly reaching out to the school

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

1 year

@effjayem @ShlomoFelber Wow. Very depressing

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

9 months

You know something is very very wrong when Christians are afraid to condemn Hamas’s murder of Jewish babies because they worry that the condemnation itself - just the condemnation! - is too “pro-Jewish”

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@Malka_Simkovich

1 year

My kids still don’t know what I do

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@Malka_Simkovich

1 year

Yesterday I spoke at an Interfaith Clergy Event in Durham, NC about Judaism during the time of Jesus. The audience comprised Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant leaders. I closed the talk by giving participants this sheet and told them they had sixty seconds to fill it out.

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Malka Simkovich

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3 months

I just complimented the teacher on the kids’ behavior and asked where they go. You have a lot to be proud of, Magen David Yeshiva High School!

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

1 month

After five years of researching and writing and revising, my book on Israel-Diaspora relations in antiquity is finally out! You can purchase it at or at , where you can read more about the project (and some very gracious

Letters from Home: The Creation of Diaspora in Jewish Antiquity By Malka Z. Simkovich

The announcement by the Persian king Cyrus following his conquest of Babylon in 539 BCE that exiled Judahites could return to their homeland should have been cause for celebration. Instead, it...

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SeforimChatter

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1 month

Now available: Letters from Home: The Creation of Diaspora in Jewish Antiquity • Malka Simkovich @Malka_Simkovich

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@Malka_Simkovich

9 months

“What if Jews did nothing, allowing their children to remain tortured in captivity while rockets continued to rain on their citizens, because we’re telling them to shut up and take it?”

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9 months

Epically stupid Guardian letter

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Malka Simkovich

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9 months

For all your "but what about the Jews, aren't they, like, really bad too" friends, here's a template response that can help you bow out of the conversation by recommending books that they won't want to read

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

6 months

I am hesitant to share my review of Yonatan Adler’s recent book, The Origins of Judaism, for the most recent issue of Jewish Review of Books, not only because it’s yet another day of loss and grief for Israel and the Jewish people, and such a review seems insignificant, but also

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

9 months

It's exactly this behavior that demonstrates the necessity of a Jewish homeland. My choice, and the choice of my peers, is to stay in America, where our children will be in the workforce with antisemites in fifteen years, or move to Israel.

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9 months

Holy shit, we have our work cut out for us in deprogramming a whole generation of antisemites. This is a high school in San Francisco.

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Malka Simkovich

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3 months

Many of you have asked me what my husband and I did following the incident two days ago outside our house. We informed the school leadership of what took place, and they promised to review the bus camera footage and follow up with us regarding how they plan to respond. We have

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

10 months

Bomb threat at my synagogue today, two blocks away from my house. And if you want to understand how Jew hatred works, Philo explained it in the year 38 CE at the very end of Embassy to Gaius, paragraph 371. Look it up.

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Malka Simkovich

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9 months

Someone punches you in the face. Ow, You cry. Shut up, the person says. I didn't punch you in the face. Why are you saying that? What's wrong with you? Why are you so selfish? You're the problem. You punched ME in the face. You don't make me feel safe. Welcome to being a Jew

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Malka Simkovich

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9 months

I'd like to thank everyone who has insisted that Israel deserved what it got, that Israel has no right to respond, that murdering babies is justified, and that, while Islamophobia is a crisis, antisemitism doesn't exist, for reminding me today of why exactly the Jews need a State

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

2 years

Since @washingtonpost loves embedding images of Orthodox Jews in articles about disease, will their next article feature an image of one of the tens of thousands of Orthodox Jews who donated plasma during the first year of the covid pandemic?

Robyn Ackerman

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Washington Post uses not one but 2 photos of Orthodox Jews from Brooklyn (photo from 2019) in a story about a Measles Outbreak in Ohio. As a marketing exec, I can tell you that imagery choice is the most influential aspect of messaging.

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Malka Simkovich

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9 months

Can everyone please just be like my colleague Kate Oxsen who speaks out against antisemitism without acting like it's a controversial stance, and gifts me nail polish on a random Monday??

Kate Oxsen

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9 months

As a Catholic Xtian it is my duty to denounce antisemitism...it is quite literally a matter of life & death. It is for you & your generation that I am here...To make sure we live in a world where no Jewish child has to fear or be ashamed of being Jewish.

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10 months

Celebrating the abduction and murder of civilization children. Keep defending them so that the world sees you for who you really are

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10 months

“It’s a beautiful day” Palestinian protester says “we are celebrating.” in exchange with Israel supporters in downtown San Francisco

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5 months

Today’s “I don’t hate the Jews, I just hate the Zionists,” is yesterday’s “I don’t hate the Jews, I just hate the Pharisees”

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3 months

@Bill17371 This is beautiful. Thank you!

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@Heidi__Matthews What humanitarians those Iranian leaders are! Such teddy bears and softies who deeply care for the dignity and welfare of human life. Truly a “masterful” response of genocidal terror that invites admiration and commendation — when the target is Jews.

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2 years

Friendly heads up to the dudes sending me emails every day that list all the sources I didn't mention

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1 year

Shout out to the Jewish academic holdouts who ignore the diacritic H and still write "chag sameach" in their emails in imitation of our humble ancestors

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3 years

Once again, SBL’s midwest regional meeting excludes the participation of observant Jews by holding their conference on Shabbat. Whenever I’ve complained I’ve been told to get over it, and that there isn’t a choice. There is a choice.

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@goxfightxwin There is a recording of it happening but ok, antisemite. Do you think the earth is flat too?

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Why aren’t more people taking a public stand against this brazen Jew-hatred that is endangering Jews on campus and beyond? Where are our friends who have unhesitatingly stood up on behalf of other minority groups being isolated and demonized?

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Pro-Hamas Columbia students chant shocking slogans at @Columbia : --> "From the river to the sea, Palestine is Arab!" --> "There is no god but Allah, and the martyr is Allah’s beloved!" --> "Israel Go to Hell!" --> "Resistance [Hamas] is justified!"

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2 years

Deleted my post about my nephew being harassed by antisemites because antisemites on Twitter were resharing the tweet and mocking it. I reported 8 such tweets for harassment and all 8 were found by Twitter to be non problematic. Great job, antisemites- Hitler would be so proud

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9 months

Most children who go to Jewish schools in the US today have to walk past armed security because of threats of violence against Jews. Most children who go to synagogues in the US likewise have to pass armed security because of threats of violence to Jews. Are you okay with this?

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2 years

My second conversation with @18forty is coming out in a few days. I remember little of the discussion except for the realization halfway in that we’d switched from discussing early Judaism to modern Orthodoxy - a switch that seems to keep happening to me these days. Stay tuned!

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7 months

I don't usually call out to a stranger by name and create a socially awkward situation by thanking them for all they do for the State of Israel and the Jewish people, but when I do, it's to @EylonALevy

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9 months

If you're not willing to talk about how ancient, uncomplicated, unexamined, gleeful "let's make them collectively guilty regardless of where they live and how old they are" Jew-hatred is a key part of what's happening right now, you're not entering this conversation in good faith

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2 years

Simkovich’s Law states that if one publicly critiques a recent church document for advancing anti-Jewish stereotypes in front of a Cardinal, a colleague will anxiously whisper into your ear, “he wrote it”

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2 months

This morning, the Jewish Review of Books published Dr. Yonatan Adler's response to my review of his book, The Origins of Judaism, in their most recent Winter issue, as well as my response. The core of our debate concerns how we select particular methods to define Jews and

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7 months

The shock, for many Jews, isn't that there are antisemitic conspiracy theorists who lay the source of all suffering at the Jews' feet. The shock is that there are millions of people who view themselves as rational, empathetic, and moral, who believe themselves to be good and

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

7 months

Imagine pressuring a historian of American history to affirm that George Washington was the first president of the United States. Affirming that Jesus was a Jew who lived in a land called Judea is so obvious that it is debasing to have to make the point. Which brings me to the

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

2 years

I would definitely listen to a podcast called "Josephus is not just a big fat liar." Thanks for sharing this!

Neil Harris

@neilsharris

2 years

Great interview with Dr. ⁦⁦ @Malka_Simkovich ⁩ Although I think it should be subtitled, “Josephus is not a just a big fat liar.” Lots of great Second Temple lifestyle and literature insights.

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

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when it comes to hatred of Jews, the order has never been: 1. Jews do something bad 2. as a response, people come to hate Jews. Instead, it's 1. people hate Jews 2. and then do whatever they can to make the Jews guilty of something bad to make their Jew-hatred seem rational

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

4 months

I'm grateful to have had the opportunity to facilitate a four-month long conversation with a community of extraordinary people to discuss the subject of antisemitism (a better term is anti-Judaism, since the latter doesn't have modern valances). Our book journey focused on

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@navmydreams

4 months

Thank you @Malka_Simkovich @SruliFruchter and @18_forty for another interesting book journey. I learned so much and it has given me a lot to think about just like the previous one. Looking forward to the next journey!

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Malka Simkovich

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@EylonALevy I'm confused. I'm a dual citizen, have been to Israel over 30 times, have sisters, nieces, nephews, and close friends in Israel (and in the army), spend every summer in Israel - and you and I have even had a brief but meaningful conversation at Hostage Square, Eylon. I've put my

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

1 month

This is indeed the scariest part of this story. There are countless people - not merely elected leaders - who are watching this and shrugging their shoulders, deciding not to speak out against violent Jew-hatred because they worry that doing so will cost them too much social

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@samyebri

1 month

these terrorists told us when and where they were coming. For a week, we pleaded with our elected leaders to speak up. Not one made a public statement condemning these extremists. We pleaded up with our elected leaders to protect us but LAPD told us these elected officials…4/

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

1 year

Pro tip, if you’re at a virtual talk about the Holocaust, don’t ask in the chat how to apply the Holocaust’s lessons to help Palestinians who are victims of genocide by the Nazi Israeli State. Your friendly moderator (me) will delete your comment and tell the audience why. Cheers

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

8 months

@Eretz_Nehederet If you guys do nothing else, your careers will have been worth it for this brilliant and satirically perfect video

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

1 year

@GreggBerretta Yes, I’ve taught this text many times to catholic students who don’t know that later rabbinic texts require one to heal on Shabbat if it saves a life. A few things, though. 1. Personally I would prefer that Jews say Jesus rather than use a derogatory nickname; since it 1/3

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

7 months

On a scholars’ solidarity mission to Israel this week, my group visited Kfar Aza, where ten percent of the kibbutz’s residents were brutally tortured, shot, burned alive, or abducted on October 7th. We observed the destroyed homes, their contents, and saw evidence of horrific

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

2 years

So much hard work in academia goes unnoticed, and I'm deeply grateful for a gracious colleague who took the time to say something kind about my book. Thanks for reminding me to show this kindness to others!

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

2 years

Sad to hear that E. P. Sanders has died. His claim that most Jews practiced Common Judaism in the Second Temple era was the single most influential idea to combat the characterization of Judaism as fractured and sectarian, and to combat the binary between Judaism and Christianity

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

3 years

Summer camp I mean AJS is going as expected: I spent too much at the canteen (Starbucks), found a buddy for night activity (dinner reception), and listened to my bunk counselor (session chair) warn attendees to maintain personal hygiene, for God’s sake (keep masks on) #AJS2021

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Malka Simkovich

@Malka_Simkovich

1 year

When people react to a news item on Twitter, they're not saying, "This issue rates highest to me in importance above all other issues." They're saying, "When it comes to this issue, I have a distinctive voice that can uniquely contribute to the conversation." 1/2

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Malka Simkovich

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1 year

@GreggBerretta 4. My sense is that this story has its origins in intra-Jewish debates but a few generations later was indeed being deployed towards anti-Jewish polemic 3/3

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