Rabbi/Teacher/Secondary Elite. Anarcho-Kotzker. Perpetually learning. Good Torah is Good Torah. I serve God not labels. I do not read scripts or perform on cue
Also something rubs me the wrong way when it's like "well they're gonna kill themselves anyway whaddya gonna do some people just die because they don't conform to society's expectations it's fine we should do nothing"
But what it comes down to is, I'm not sophisticated enough to rationalize kids killing themselves as part of the greater good because of The Culture War or whatever. (shrug) I'm a simple man. I see a dead kid, I get sad. I'd rather there be less dead kids.
Because people seem to be retweeting this I'm gonna shout out Rabbi
@EmilyAviva
, one of my absolute favorite people on earth. Don't listen to me on this stuff listen to her also listen to her in general she's a secret gadol
I really don't know how people are spinning "blowing up pagers and radios given out specifically to Hezbollah members to communicate with other Hezbollah members about Hezbollah stuff" as "indiscriminate"
the insane bullying of a guy who just posted a picture of himself smiling and saying he's proud to be Jewish, under the guise of "anti-zionism" is really telling of how toxic everything is right now
People tend to assume that just because the lesson they took from the Holocaust was man's inhumanity to man and the danger of fascism, that is also what Jews took out of it, when the "lesson" many Jews got was more "you cannot trust any of these so-called good people"
Just a supreme display of arrogance to assume that the method of car disposal has anything to do with your little theory. Would it be any easier to investigate a cubed car?
I love Yom Kippur because it's one day of the year where my general tendency toward ruthless self criticism and self loathing is uplifted and sanctified and given religious value.
Stop saying that Jews are hiding the Talmud from you. The whole damn thing is available online, for free, translated into English. We got nothing to hide.
Honestly, Whoopi Goldberg's only crime is knowing an average amount about the Holocaust.
The average amount is a bad amount, to be sure. But it's an average amount.
Fun fact it is actually possible to be against Israel's actions in Gaza, even to be an antizionist, without a stunning ignorance (best case scenario!) of Jewish culture and history. Y'all can do it. I believe in you!
This is not a thing, people. Kippahs are allowed to touch the ground. They can even be thrown out in the regular trash. They're not religious objects, they're head coverings.
I'm sorry, the idea that the *IDF* sent "soldiers with chemical weapons" to effing Columbia University was always ridiculous paranoia and deluded grandeur and if you believed that I think less of you
Everybody loves to hear the stories of Righteous Gentiles because you're like "I would have been a righteous gentile! I would have saved Jews!"....but statistically speaking, no, you wouldn't have
Because every single bit of the body must be buried, (to the point that even the sponges used for cleanup are buried), and the cars in question are so full of blood and ashes and remains that its *impossible to get them out* the unprecedented decision was made to bury cars
If chants didn’t do it for you, maybe this will: today
@ColumbiaBDS
and
@jvplive
posted the infamous “bloody hands” photo of Palestinians celebrating the lynching of two Jews who accidentally entered Ramallah.
Jews who support killing Jews should be ashamed of themselves.
If Democrats lose in November it’s because for months, we refused to condemn this. From Dearborn to Harvard, we catered to the radicals in the name of being a “big tent” party. There can’t be room for those who assault cops, burn our flags, and support Hamas in our party.
"I wandered around a country I had never been to before, not speaking the language, for ten days. I now have opinions on the moral worth of the entire country. Put me on the cover of The New Yorker"
...ok?
because its not enough that 1200 Jews were murdered, beaten, raped, burned, and tortured in one day, no, we have to *beg* you and plead with you to please believe we didn't do it to ourselves
The problem is not that Jody Micah is a Holocaust denier it's that it took her denying the Holocaust for you to believe us about what she's been saying and doing for *months*
but mr. one hit wonder over here thinks that the only reasons Jews have for doing things are nefarious and demonic, so here I am having to justify Jewish burial practices
I'm just so tired of the academia-washing of antisemitism I constantly see out there, and there's very little anyone can do about it because you can apparently say anything if you bury it under twenty feet of jargon
Personally, it's much more interesting to me that Churchill was a thoroughly bad person who happened to be the exact right person for a precise moment in history where he was needed against a bunch of worse people than any kind of anodyne and uncritical hero worship
If you're a rabbinic leader of some sort and you follow libsoftiktok you are telling LGBTQ people in your orbit that you are okay with them dead. Act accordingly.
Zionism is the belief in Jewish self-determination and sovereignty in our historical homeland. Sovereignty means having your own country with all the responsibilities that entails. Those responsibilities include not pissing off your allies to the point they stop sending you arms.
Last year I said that people should really consider translating "the four sons" as "the four children" because we shouldn't be implying girls aren't part of Judaism simply because Hebrew lacks a gender neutral plural pronoun and people got super mad at me, but I'll say it again
Yad Vashem recognizes 28,217 "Righteous Among the Nations". That seems like a lot until you remember the population of Europe was 554 million in 1939. So the odds are, give or take, 99.005% that no, you wouldn't have
The more normalized denial of sexual violence on October 7 gets, the deeper my disillusionment with the left gets and the bleaker I feel about the future of the global Jewish community.
The online pearl clutching about this is worse than the actual extinguishing. The core Jewish population of Poland is 0.0001% of the general population. It's extremely weird to be putting up menorahs in the parliament of a country like that. Not everything is a Chabad House.
Oh my god, touch grass, people. Stop this nonsense. This is some QAnon-level paranoia. The New York Times is not using its crossword puzzles to signal Nazism for whatever reason I don't understand.
we have to sit there while all you armchair massacre experts go ahead and peer closely at the pictures of our charred and mutilated remains and pronounce it unconvincing evidence to warrant our grief
Dear goyim who can't understand how Judaism simultaneously adapts to new circumstances and affirms its commitment to its laws on the books through the creative use of loopholes:
Just in case anyone's confused: My position on Israel is that no one's going anywhere and the sooner everyone accepts that the better off we'll all be.
these people know so little about Judaism they honestly think the first anti-zionist synagogue in the US was opened in 2019 instead of whenever R. Yoel of Satmar got here.
As long as Zionism has existed, there were Jews standing in opposition to it. From the Jewish Labor Bund, to Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt; from Hajo Meyer to Judith Butler. In 2019, Tzedek Chicago became the first anti-Zionist synagogue in the US.
I know it's hard to believe but just because we have funny hats doesn't mean every member of the Orthodox community spends every moment of their lives plotting to unspeakable evil. Crazy, I know!
7 Anti-Zionist Jewish artists get work accepted at SF Jewish Museum's and then pull work from exhibition because museum won't meet their demands via
@JTAnews
It's important to understand that JewBelong is essentially one woman's tweets but instead of putting it on twitter she puts them on billboards because she's that rich
Sometimes you see a tweet so horrible you go to their profile to see what kind of person says such a thing out loud and I discovered....something arguably worse?
@MrSmarmyPants
Converts were not raised Jewish, they are not blood, they know the lyrics very well but not the melody. Appreciate them for their sacrifice but be aware they are really only half Jewish at best no matter how good a matzoh ball soup they can make.
Current leftist activism is reading about how evil Imperialism and colonialism is and instead of doing some introspection about your own role in this, going "how could the Jews do this"
you people wouldn't believe the murder of a Jew until the corpse began to rot in your living room and even then you'd be sticking your fingers in their wounds to test to see if its really blood or is it strawberry jam
The callousness, dehumanization, and targeting of Jews on display at last night’s protest outside the Nova Festival exhibit was atrocious antisemitism - plain and simple.
Antisemitism has no place in our city nor any broader movement that centers human dignity and liberation.
Henry Kissinger was a towering intellect, diplomat and practitioner who - not without controversy - helped shape American foreign policy with a lasting impact worldwide. A refugee from Nazi Germany, and the first Jewish Secretary of State, he was unapologetic about his heritage
The premise of Ben Shapiro's piece on Modern Orthodoxy is that we can just exclude LGBTQ people out of existence. This premise is both false and not something we ought to want.
If you want to talk about the history of Jewish assimilation — the loss of our languages, our particular cultural identities, our styles of dress, our religion — the most important date is 1948
This text was recently written by Aaron Bushnell. It demonstrates that Bushnell was entirely sane, knew his facts, was logical, coherent, and thoroughly lucid.
This is the kind of thing I'm talking about when I say that social media is making people perform their emotions and identity. You really really don't need to do this and the need you have to mark yourself as Better Than The Others is pathology, not virtue
When I tell people I’m Jewish, I also pro-actively say I’m anti-zionist.
I do so because Israel kills in the name of Jews, most Jews are Zionist, & I want to be clear where I stand. If Jewish folks don’t want to be incorrectly conflated with Israel, the answer is to end Zionism.
I'm so so sorry that the people who spent their last moments tied up in those cars as they burned to death didn't scream loud enough for you to hear. We will next time try to be murdered in a way that makes it more obvious to you. We'll try to be considerate of your time
Ben Shapiro is the worst sort of person in that he has two qualities that exacerbate each other:
A) a conviction that his own views are logical and rational and everyone else's aren't
B) an absolute refusal, perhaps even an inability, to criticially examine his own views
All I know is, there are LGBTQ people who want to learn Torah and be Shomer mitzvos to the best of their ability, and we should be encouraging people to learn Torah and be Shomer mitzvos to the best of their ability. I'm not sophisticated enough to think beyond that.
𝗭𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗦 𝗜𝗡 𝗛𝗔𝗜𝗧𝗜 & 𝗔𝗙𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗔!
Zionism, a political ideology that many say has hijacked Judaism to pursue settler-colonialism in occupied Palestine, does not end at the borders of the state of Israel. Zionist businessmen Gilbert Bigio and Dan Gertler cast a
This is such a clear example of people using Jews as a scapegoat (in all the senses of the word) for all of colonialism and Imperialism. It's all just purging of guilt by placing it on the Eternal Other.