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Let's talk about trauma, terror and the Golden Calf for a moment, shall we?1/x THREAD This is based off of the jamming and teaching that @SlaterTheDoctor and I did on
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I keep seeing this narrative here about how the Jews were passive and meek during the Holocaust, didn’t protest, and it makes me furious. It is wrong, it is dangerous,
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Was reminded just now of when I was a rabbinical student & got pickpocketed in a cafe in Jerusalem &, panicked, I ran to the waiter and said the only
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We already knew Trump was in favor of concentration camps. That’s not news.https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/06/19/never-again-means-nothing-if-holocaust-analogies-are-always-off-limits/ Ok I’ll just quote myself. Is CBP runni
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It's time for some Audre Lorde. (It's always time for Audre Lorde.) "My fear of anger taught me nothing. Your fear of that anger will teach you nothing, also." "Every
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Lots of people are rightfully going after CNN’s ridiculous “both sides” framing here, but I want to zero in on a specific aspect of her statement—one that we see a
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I get the strong desire to return to normal life now. I, too, want so badly to go out and do something fun & normal. But every spiritual tradition teaches
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In advance of Rosh Hashana, I want to unpack one of the most loaded bits of liturgy in the tradition. “Who will live and who will die? Who by the
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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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A couple notes on the origins of the idea of mothers being paragons of angelic, selfless love (hint: it was a backlash against women's increasing independence.)1/x thread BTW this is
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Over here on Jewish time, we’re in the middle of counting the Omer, the seven week time between Passover and our next major holiday, Shavuot. It has some pretty powerful
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“Judeo-Christian” isn’t a thing. It a) positions Jews & Christians against Muslims, is Islamophobic b) elides Christian oppression & murder of Jews over more than 1000 years & c) ignores
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