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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

Joined April 2017
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@MisfitTorah
ואני בסוף מערב
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Every day I thank God I managed to avoid the Future Jewish Leader Industrial Complex
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Apparently people are discussing Jojo Rabbit and I am sorry no line about Judaism ever written goes as hard as this
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For those wondering why I, an Orthodox Rabbi, am outraged by the Texas trans law, aren't I supposed to stand up for Torah Values or whatever A thread:
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@MisfitTorah
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I don't like it when kids kill themselves.
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End of thread.
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Also idk guys the trans people I know are pretty pro letting people transition and I'm pretty sure they know more about it than I do
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I also went to a convenience store recently and didn't kill anyone, where's my medal
@ShaykhSulaiman
Sulaiman Ahmed
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OCT 7 FOOTAGE: HAMAS ENTER A CONVENIENT STORE TAKE FOOD AND DO NOT KILL ANYONE
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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"
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@MisfitTorah
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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.
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"but the suicide rate is the same before and after transition"
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Follow actual trans people, frum trans people, listen to what they have to say. I deserve no credit for stepping over a bar that's like, underground.
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@MisfitTorah
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Can Orthodox Jews be weirdos without it being proof of something for once in our freaking lives
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@MisfitTorah
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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
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@MisfitTorah
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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"
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@MisfitTorah
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It continues to amaze me just how bad a judge of character Bernie Sanders is.
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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
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@MisfitTorah
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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"
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@NiceJewishQueer is cool too.
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Ah yes, the Jews, conquerors, colonizers, and ruling class of the entire Middle East
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@MisfitTorah
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Where does he think the word "Ghetto" comes from
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~Jachnun Supremacist~ נפתלי בן מתתיהו
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This was a serious question…
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This makes me furious for the obvious reasons, but also because this is a matter of Jewish law.
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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?
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@JosieBrendaA ! Follow her too!
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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.
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@MisfitTorah
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Twitter is such a wild place where you can in ten minutes see both of these posts
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@MisfitTorah
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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.
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Look man, be anti-Zionist, whatever, I don't care, but like, have some self respect, jeez
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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.
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Biggest challenge to my faith in my lifetime is these jerks
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Barak Ravid
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Israeli right wing activists blocked aid trucks which were on their way to Gaza today at the Tarqumiya crossing in the West Bank
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It's so adorable when Ben Shapiro decides he is a Serious Student of Intellectual History and gets like everything wrong.
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Literally nauseates me that Chaya Raichik ostensibly shares a religious identification with me
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I'm going to throw something
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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!
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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.
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why are the ZIONISTS covering up the WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING
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sarah🌻🍉
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It's wild that they never talk about resistance groups nor events like the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
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Just got my DNA test back I'm 99.7% Ashkenazi Jewish. I paid 70 bucks to find that out.
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@nomchompsky "Dear God, Thank you for the venison. Carrot God, Thank you for the carrots"
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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
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Sometimes a bunch of weirdos dig a tunnel for reasons other than child abuse. Why does this need to be said
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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
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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
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Oh OK then
@timerube
Dirk Fuckner 🚯
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man
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I went to their instagram to confirm: yes, they posted this, and with no comment. This is just straight up incitement to violence at this point.
@LishiBaker
Elisha (Lishi) Baker
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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.
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You spoke at the RNC, stop saying "we" when referring to Democrats, that's not a credibility you have anymore, there are consequences to your actions
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Shabbos Kestenbaum
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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.
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"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?
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Yes, Hebrew, the only language in the world with loan words
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A. D. Gordon 🐐
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So true!! And the word Merkava comes from Mecca..
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This just in: No Orthodox Jews live in Flatbush!
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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
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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*
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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
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I can't quite explain this but Natasha Lyonne has Old Rabbi Energy
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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
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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
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"what do Jews think of Jesus" It's very simple: we don't.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Let's never pretend this person is acting in good faith again
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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
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I have no idea why gas prices are some people's only criteria on which they judge a president.
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..... Who comes up with this BS
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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.
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What a colossal waste of tzedaka money
@Osint613
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A New Jersey EMS service has introduced the first Tesla Cybertruck for emergency response vehicle. I’m not sure @elonmusk knows about this yet
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why is it so small Chris
@crawlings13
El Reconqristador ابو شربل 🇲🇽
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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.
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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.
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@Bad_bureaucrat Misogyny but make it anti-colonial
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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
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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:
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Ah yes, because מפני חטאנו גלינו מארצנו is a phrase written by 19th century Europeans
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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.
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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.
@jvplive
Jewish Voice for Peace
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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.
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In my experience, the only people who think being the chosen people really is a statement about Jews being better than everyone else are antisemites.
@Haqiqatjou
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About 50% of Jews are atheists. They don't believe in God, but they do believe they are His chosen ones.
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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!
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Read between the lines here and it's actually an extremely funny story
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@ZacharyBraiterm
Zachary Braiterman
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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
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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
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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?
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@playnicenow2
Stephanie Sharf
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@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.
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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"
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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
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I think I speak for all neurodivergent people when I say that the super power I wish I had was being able to tell when I'm being annoying
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1. Credit where credit is due 2. The fact that AOC, whose political skill should not be underestimated, sees the wind blowing this way is good news.
@AOC
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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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.
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"If it were not for the accident of my birth, I would be antisemitic." -Henry Kissinger
@ADL
ADL
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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
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Oh my god a Jew has money in a bank we must summon the Einsatzengruppen or else who knows what will happen
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Real glad Andrew Tate has gone mask off full antisemite so at least he'll turn off Jewish middle schoolers
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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.
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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
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As I suspected, which is that Bushnell's opinion that all Israelis are legitimate targets for violence is just the norm on the left these days.
@fluxus2
🇵🇸fluxus🇵🇸☮️RIP Aaron Bushnell-CEASEFIRE NOW☮️
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This text was recently written by Aaron Bushnell. It demonstrates that Bushnell was entirely sane, knew his facts, was logical, coherent, and thoroughly lucid.
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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
@agelender
Amanda Gelender🔮
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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.
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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
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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
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If only there was some kind of ethnoreligious minority in Germany that knew how to make a good bagel, oh well
@WheatPM
⛏️ Nax🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Took going to northern Germany to find a bagel and it's uhh, something
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I hope all the new followers are ready for a whole lot of Jewish stuff?
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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.
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This is the Europe that people want to send us back to, because, they promise, things will be different this time!
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Just say Jewish Jack this is taking forever
@african_stream
African Stream
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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
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@MisfitTorah
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I think we take for granted how insane it is that the Talmud Bavli exists and that it is our most authoritative legal source
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Scrolling through Twitter for my daily dose of "oh god they're gonna kill us all in a pogrom any minute now, aren't they"
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@MisfitTorah
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3 months
"excuse me, burning the Talmud is an important part of my culture"
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ואני בסוף מערב
7 months
I like to think of Esther saying softly, under her breath, "boop"
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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.
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