#Judaism

We didn't survive 2,000 years of exile only to fall apart because we miss some onegs. While most cultures in the ancient world died when they were captured or subjugated,
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The assumption that all Orthodox Jews are homophobes is just wrong. The chief rabbi of the commonwealth has published LGBT guides for orthodox schools. He actively calls for more acceptance.
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The tragedy in Meron yesterday is heartbreaking on so many levels but what's even more heartbreaking is the fact that it was avoidable and predicted. A thread: 2/xMeron is believed
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Not expecting any major upsets in the next hour, so here we go with the educational tweets on this week's least-read women theologians.https://twitter.com/dirkster42_/status/1311728448725950464 Rachel Adler is one of the pioneers
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It’s antisemitic to conflate Jewishness with Zionism. Lots of Zionists are Christians. Lots of Jews are anti-Zionist. Please stop stereotyping us Jews for political convenience. Jews who tell you that
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I want to share a few thoughts on why I find the whole “interfaith” project to be so problematic, since I find myself occasionally saying stuff about it on here.
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The Chief Rabbi won’t even attend a service inside my synagogue, because men and women sit together. The Chief Rabbi won’t accept my stepdad as Jewish, despite the Friday night
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Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad never existed, but were fictional characters made up to molest minds with a false enslaving concept of god. Neither Judaism, Christianity, nor Islam can ever liberate
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Thread on Judaism and blood rituals. In the Talmud.https://twitter.com/J_H_5/status/1225740792863522818 The ADL and others crucified (so to speak) this guy.Ariel Toaff, Professor of Medieval and Renaissance History at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
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Growing up Christian, I believed the Jewish religion taught basically all the same things I believed about heaven, hell, and a guy named The Devil who wanted to take us
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Jewish views of God that aren't the "Old Man in the Sky." A LOOONG Lots of people say to me "I don't believe in God." And they are surprised to
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It's an Armageddon fetish, straight up. I wish it were complicated, but it's not. They fetishize Judaism as peripheral and integral to the Rapture.But if you ask them if Jewish
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Newsnight included Len McCluskey dismissing Peter Mandelson's views, on the grounds he 'should go into a room and count his gold'. Newsnight read out a Unite statement saying this couldn't
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I am at real risk of becoming some sort of religious contemplative person if this solitaryness keeps up Basically I had this series of thoughts today1. When I love some
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for whatever reason the roil that is my brain has decided to think about how i may not have encountered the in your face, yelling about how you killed jesus
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Seeing a lot of posts going back & forth about the “correct” way to mourn RBG while respecting her Jewish faith.Not to get into the weeds here but yeah, some
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