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How the German parties are marking #TagDerBefreiung on twitter: The CDU is emphasizing remembering victims and responsibility The SPD is emphasizing the message of "Never Again" and victims of Nazi
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so i've been reading about rent strikes and tenant movements in NYC before, during and after World War One. tweeting about it for interest and inspiration. Obviously conditions are different
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Lucy finally playing with a dog whose owner is under 30 and quite nice to look at. Hallelujah!!! I think I am in love? Might work up the chutzpah (yiddish
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Today is rough. On a theoretical level. I've got work to do. That I don't. Also trying to figure out whether I should attempt to try to tweet as...well...yeah, I
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Jewish artists you should be supporting (a thread) Yitz Jordan, better known as his stage name “Y-Love” is a musician. Ariel Tidhar is a Jewish woman who owns a jewelry
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Since I just needed to write this in replies to someone, FYI:Jewish atheists are a thing. In fact, there’s a long and proud secular Jewish tradition that stretches back at
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"Gevalt!!! Never give up hope! There is no despair." -Rebbe Nahman of Breslov, late 18th c. UkraineA thread about this statement, during a time when a lot of us are
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THIS is what Twitter is all about. Thousands coming together to tell the wildest, most amazing stories of ancestors. So here are a couple of mine...https://twitter.com/lifesafeast/status/1387117957550071813 My great-grandpa Kalman was
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1. A lot of people are struggling with this. So here’s an easy guide to distinguish the various peoples of the Russian Empire/Soviet Union, which may illuminate racial tensions, motivations,
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My great grand father was a Bundist. That's how that side of my family got refugee status in the USSR relatively early, because he knew Communist cadre and they put
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There is a term for this genre: Hasidsploitation.https://twitter.com/AyannaPrescod/status/959999399354093568 These are the rules of Chasidic/orthodox Jews in Hollywood:Chekov's Sheitel: If there is a wig in a movie worn by a Chasidic
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It’s even hotter than it was last night...time for another late night thread on an aspect of Judaism - reading from the Torah.And when I say “reading from the Torah”,
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✡︎ Dutch Jewry ✡︎A thread on the history of Dutch Jews because I’m bored and I am Dutch Jew. ✡︎ ORIGINS ✡︎It’s speculated the earliest Jews arrived in the Low
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The @jdforward convened a group of Jewish thinkers and asked how COVID is changing and will change the American Jewish world. Here are their replies.https://forward.com/tag/after-corona/ Dr. @jeffreyherbst, President of American
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Followup thread: I’ve been talking to epidemiologists & health justice activists. Here are some tips to destigmatize Orthodox Jews, particularly Haredi (traditionalist Orthodox) Jews, & to address the greater COVID
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It's #NationalPetMonth so here is a thread of medieval women with their pets! First off is Miss Zeng, a young student of history from Song Dynasty China. Cat fancying was
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