“I do feel for the Hebrews and hope they are given slightly more humanitarian working conditions but the issue is so complicated! If we just let their people go what is stopping them from becoming too powerful and destroying us? That’s why I’m a Liberal Mitzrayonist”

Violating a law for medical needs *is* following halacha and we should honor it as such. It can be just as hard to break rules in the name of halachah as to follow them. And, like most halacha, it is easier to follow in community.

Aaron Berdofe There's a confounding scientific illiteracy at the heart of this that assumes medicine is based on One Study that definitively proves results. In reality it's usually a wide body of imperfect studies that point in the same direction.

FWIW, I think this article gets the dynamics here reversed - it's the 'upper-class' folks that are having the roughest time with inflation.

OK, so let's talk about this. The term 'Ashkenormativity' is used *internally* in Jewish communal discourse to refer to discrimination against non-Ashkenazi Jews — like north African and Yemenite Jews.

Luc Bernard World conflicts, to unaffected onlookers via social media like this, are a drama unfolding as content. They're cheering on narratives, completely unaware of the millions of actual lives being ripped apart in realtime

I’m really confused by this pamphlet. Ashkenormativity is an in group issue mostly concerning ensuring we don’t treat Ashkenazi Jewish culture as the dominate Jewish culture. Ashkenazi doesn’t even only include white* Jews

Throughout the ages Jews have made the Passover Seder their own by beautifying the table implements & the Haggadah with the best art & design of their cultures. illuminated Haggadahs from Spain, porcelain Seder plates from Germany, and from America …whatever the hell this is.

People threatening government officials with violence (including election officials) is act a huge problem in the US right now, and we should have consistent punishment for it.

This shows frequency of the word 'unqualified' in teaching reviews. Women in orange, men in blue.

I’ve said many times that it’s clear that the Zoomers out there stopping traffic have never watched Eyes on the Prize, but let me elaborate.

The Civil Rights Movement was not random disruption—every protest was strategic and meticulously planned. 1/6

You see, my dear friends, this is the problem of Sola Scriptura, in one tweet. If we merely go to the text, then one cannot say conclusively that Humpty Dumpty is an egg. Of course he’s an egg! Decades of authoritative nursery rhyme tradition declare that Humpty Dumpty is an egg!

1/ Everyone in Israel has been talking about the interceptions, but do you know why the Hebrew word for “interception” is יֵרוּט (jɛˈʁut)?

I realized not only do I have pierogis in the freezer but I kind of have to eat them now so don’t mind if I do

I think we can focus on non-Palestinian antisemitism for criticism, and uplift non-antisemitic Palestinian voices. Not because deradicalization is impossible, but because anyone in a war zone (or connected to one) needs a bit more grace for what they say.

If true? Excellent.

An actual leader could turn this impromptu alliance and heroic defense into a real alliance with Israel's neighbors and the path to a harmonious life alongside a Palestinian state.

Netanyahu is not a real leader.

Fascism is rife with incompetence and a level of corruption that people born and raised in democratic countries can hardly imagine.

Pesach mood

Story from my husband's family: in late 19th Century San Francisco, a cousin's husband, who was a Jew from China, was arrested for one of the biggest opium smuggling operations in the US at the time. I wish I knew more.