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It's clear now that the mayor of New York is going to continue calling out the actions of a small minority of Hasidic Jews and implicating all New York Jews

Alright Jwitter let's do this. What's a goyified name of a Jewish food that made you screamhttps://twitter.com/JewishWonk/status/1259668258241884161 Names that made you laugh are also acceptable We found a strong contender

A conclusion I reached that felt more long-term than near-term until COVID-19:If Americans do not mobilize to reinvigorate/reform our institutions our democracy will not endure.It won't end over night. Maybe

Today is #YomHaShoah, the Jewish Holocaust Remembrance Day. You're going to see many (rightfully) somber messages, but this is not one of them. Instead, I'd like to discuss popular memory.Thread.

I do not find movies about Hasidic Jews interesting because the entire appeal is "look how weird and foreign these people are." Whether the creators understand it or not the

So this year because I was at home I had to pay attention to the Haggadah more than usual. In the commentary of the Haggadah I used it referenced the

hi @CDCgov pls advisehttps://twitter.com/rachsyme/status/1247545212257349634 My assumption is that shamayim is a sterile environment. One could make the argument that because we know of at least two humans who made it

Below is Yuli Edelstein, Knesset speaker, prisoner of Zion who spent years in the gulag (repressive labor camps where millions died), celebrating Sigd with the Ethiopian Jewish community.Both Ethiopian &