I post Jewish things. Sometimes other things. Like sports. But mostly Jewish things. Senior Jewish Educator for @JudaismUnbound /The UnYeshiva. he/him
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13 Dec 2024
Shabbat Shalom. In Hebrew, the Torah begins with "Bruh....shit."
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12 Nov 2024
I don't know how anyone's answer in 2024 to "how can Dems win elections in the future" is any version of "they need to move in X direction ideologically."
Some folks are saying X is "a more centrist" direction, others "a more left" direction. I think that's the wrong debate.
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12 Nov 2024
We can respond "But practicing for a debate, or being deliberate, doesn't inherently mean you're insincere!"
True! I think Kamala Harris was sincere in her beliefs -- those I agree with and those I don't. And...I don't think that matters.
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12 Nov 2024
My preference for Dem candidates is certainly that they would be more left. And...I don't think it's true to say that that automatically would yield better results.
People want to treat substance over style but...I really think we're losing mostly on style.
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8 Nov 2024
It's amazing how many people's answers to "how do we stop alienating working-class voters" begin with "we should stop caring about Trans people."
I suggest answers to this question of how to not-alienate voters that are not "we should pick a group of voters, and alienate them."
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Lex Rofeberg retweeted
6 Nov 2024
Utter depravity. According to exit polls 80% of American Jews voted for Harris. We are waking up horrified for our country and our communities
6 Nov 2024
We congratulate President Donald J. Trump, Vice President-elect J.D. Vance and all the candidates who won last night. We look forward to working with the incoming Administration, Congress and all elected officials in pursuit of our 111-year-old mission — to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and secure justice and fair treatment to all.
We remain steadfastly committed to that timeless mission as we fight the torrent of antisemitism sweeping our society along with all forms of hate and extremism — offline and online, on campuses and in schools, in the US and around the world.
adl.org/resources/press-rele…
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6 Nov 2024
This is the ADL, folks. Can we please stop pretending they meaningfully speak for any collective-Jewish anything, and build up alternatives?
Absolutely wild, but not very surprising, that there is no mention of racism, Islamophobia...anything other than antisemitism.
6 Nov 2024
We congratulate President Donald J. Trump, Vice President-elect J.D. Vance and all the candidates who won last night. We look forward to working with the incoming Administration, Congress and all elected officials in pursuit of our 111-year-old mission — to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and secure justice and fair treatment to all.
We remain steadfastly committed to that timeless mission as we fight the torrent of antisemitism sweeping our society along with all forms of hate and extremism — offline and online, on campuses and in schools, in the US and around the world.
adl.org/resources/press-rele…
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6 Nov 2024
First, they don't actually fight antisemitism very well. Which is evident here, given that they are "looking forward" to working with the folks most contributing to its growth in recent years.
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Second, they keep playing a game of make-believe, paying lip-service to opposing amorphous concepts of "hate" and "extremism" while directly fomenting them -- and avoiding any words that read as "woke ("Islamophobia," "Transphobia," even "Racism").
They aren't fighting those.
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6 Nov 2024
We should really think twice before saying things like "We're gonna be okay."
A lot of people aren't gonna be okay. We probably need to hold that truth really dearly, and not comfort ourselves with "it's not so bad," if we're gonna fight for a world where more will be okay.
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30 Oct 2024
People, please, for the love of all that is holy stop throwing around "Shiksa" as some kind of neutral or cute term!
This is happening EVERYWHERE I look, online especially but also in offline Jewish communities. Stop!
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30 Oct 2024
Following up, due to @annarajagopal's sharing, to add that I should've said from the get-go that, in addition to being thrown at non-Jewish women, it's also thrown at Jewish women who are deemed to "not look Jewish" or not practice Judaism by someone's definition of "properly."
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30 Oct 2024
this word is also highly racialized by zionists within the jewish community. i'm an anti-zionist jew and in 2021, zionists sent a package of live roaches to my house with this word on it and my south asian surname spelled into an insult.
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30 Oct 2024
And the response of "oh lol you think blonde women are some oppressed group???"
It is possible for a group to be centered via societal beauty standards...and for that group to simultaneously be targeted by unnecessary and harmful micro-aggressions in Jewish spaces!
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30 Oct 2024
Also...the word totally hasn't only meant "blonde woman" historically. Framing it as such is a way to dodge accountability. That's a common usage, sure, but it is absolutely used as an umbrella term for all non-Jewish women, grouping them together as threats to the Jewish future.
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