Me: 'Yeah, I'm not on twitter much these days. I prefer Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit.'

Them: 'Oh really? Why is that?'

Me:

He’s back on his bullshit.

Not great for the Jews.

We need universal free pre-k, now.

We need to lift children out of poverty, now.

A must-read piece on Israel’s experience in this war from possibly Israel’s greatest writer.

“Who will we be — Israelis and Palestinians — when this long, cruel war comes to an end?”

nytimes.com/2024/03/01/opi…

Listening to a seminar at American Jewish University on the incredible shrinking rabbinate.

The takeaway: this is a very hard job, it is unstable, it is somewhat thankless, it might not be not a great financial decision, and the future is very cloudy.

My response: yup!

shira telushkin

Looking for a word in the Zohar via Sefaria | Free Virtual Jewish Library

and it only comes up once

and it's in a Sefaria sheet of your good friend and teacher, Adir Yolkut .

If someone wanted to give me a fellowship to get a PhD in Judaic Studies here at Pitt

researching Hassidut in the Peshisecha and Kotzker and Amshinover schools of thought

I would not say no.

Adir Yolkut

My religious school students created Prayer Monopoly (they answer questions about the Amidah.)

Note that the salary for rabbis (+$500) is higher than for cantors (+$300).

Love these kids.

Republicans becoming the pro-Russia party.

Does not compute for us 80s kids.

For a guy who is generally unhinged,

this is one of the most unhinged things ever

“Build bigger armies or I’ll sic the neighborhood bully on you.”

According to Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kotzk

God gives us the capacity, through holiness and commandments, to know God

in ways beyond the imaginations of the philosophers.

Yesterdays Torah from Tracy Chapman is this:

Nothing is better than being authentic.

This gives us so much hope: over a thousand Jewish and Palestinian citizens gathered today in Haifa for the 4th national convention of Standing Together, discussing the struggle against the war & occupation and for equality and Israeli-Palestinian peace. Our movement is growing!

The only way forward!