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I got myself peelable stickers to help with learning Classical Hebrew. The problem I’m just realizing now is that there really aren’t that many things in my apartment that had a word for them 2500 years ago.

The urge to ask every cute woman who sings Yiddish songs on TikTok while looking kinda gay whether she needs a wife.

Fuck off, antisemite.

You ever just think about how much it sucks that Musk bought Twitter and absolutely destroyed it? Like man, that used to be where I'd meet new people, make real life friends, etc. Now, whenever I glance over there to check something, it's just unrecognizable.

He went to MIT and Princeton for his degrees. The discrimination issue but the details seem wrong.

I’ve seen people fired or disciplined for trivializing the Holocaust over things several orders of magnitude more measured and reasonable than this statement. *This* is the sort of stuff that should lose you a job.

(Except it is absolutely real, I took the screenshot myself.)

THE JERUSALEM POST 'Hamas starving hostages as Nazis starved Jews': Netanyahu responds to Hamas, PIJ hostage videos

Can you imagine having this little self-awareness? I struggle to even believe this is real.

This is such an unhinged thing to say.

It’s hard to tell apart the IDF from the Romans’ ego-driven and sadistic decimation of Galilee and Judaea in response to a desperate revolt by an occupied people.

Today I watched Legend of Destruction, a gorgeous movie about the destruction of the Second Temple, and the parallels to what is happening in Gaza are hard to miss. The stark inequality, the asymmetric warfare, the entirely avoidable famine, the deadly infighting. Oof.

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The rain feels very appropriate for Tisha b’Av.

Torah for the 21st Century by Rabbi Ariel Stone תּוֹרָה הִיא, וְלִלְמוֹד אֲנִי צָרִיךְ This too is Torah, and I need to learn it - BT Berakhot 62a

Tisha B'Av 5785: painful, necessary Torah.
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Why I changed my mind on the genocide charge against Israel For the past 21 months of horrific violence and heartbreaking suffering in the Gaza Strip, I’ve been wrestling with the contentious…

A tipping point is happening.

From the Chair of Israel Studies at UCLA:

And I certainly grant that חזק can be used with such a meaning, and very much seems to be used with that meaning in those three passages.

But I don’t see how we can say anything about Jeremiah 20:7 based on it, since חֲזַקְתַּ֖נִי is in qal form, while the other three examples are hiphil??

Heschel claims that חֲזַקְתַּ֖נִי in Jeremiah 20:7 refers to sexual assault, but his explanation doesn’t seem to make sense to me?

The examples given of such a use are Deuteronomy 22:25, Judges 19:25, and 2 Samuel 13:11.

Can’t read Torah except the sadder parts for Tisha b’Av, but what about doomscrolling?

Both? Both.

It’s only one particular Kabbalistic reading.

I don’t know him much but his video lacks the charisma and accessibility to everyday people you need out of an NDP leader. I also hear from anti-Zionist folks I trust that he really crosses into antisemitism.

It’s almost like the ADL is getting used by antisemites.

Love to see Christian fascists are redefining antisemitism to mean opposition to Israel but somehow emphatically NOT hatred of Jews.

The only time to criticize democrats is when they have enough power that nothing you say could possibly make a difference.

What do y’all do for Havdalah when Tisha b’Av falls on Sunday?

I think it should be illegal for companies to have different trademarks that compete over what is essentially the same product space while not making clear that it’s all owned by the same company. In other words, companies shouldn’t be allowed to deliberately create the illusion of competition.

a drawing of a person playing drums with the words ba dum tsss Alt: a drawing of a person playing drums with the words ba dum tsss

Jew Reddit? Do you mean Jewddit?

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Ask for ‘ibbur, then you get to dip into adult someones for a bit instead.

“Everyday objects change owners, because each of these must uplift certain sparks from them. Once a person has finished this task, he has no further claim to the object.”

Kabbalistic communism? Kabbalistic communism!