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Gail Labovitz

@gailsl.bsky.social
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That’s Rabbi Dr. Professor to you! Faculty (Rabbinic Literature and Halakhah) at the AJU/Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, and Conservative rabbi. she/her

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Men, stop telling women you denounce sexual assault and start telling your male friends.
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Gail Labovitz @gailsl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The entire thread is quite thought provoking, so read up and down. But it occurs to me as someone who teaches Talmud/Rabbinic Lit. in a program training future rabbis, that this is pretty much exactly what we’re doing with beit midrash/hevruta requirements…
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is not good and doesn’t attest to good things about her or about her seriousness www.jpost.com/diaspora/ant...
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UN's Francesca Albanese claims Jews in Nazi camps were called ‘Muslims' | The Jerusalem Post
“In fact, when they were being taken to the gas chambers, there are some accounts of life in the concentration camps saying that Jews were called ‘the Muslims,’” Albanese said.
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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Of course "transing your kids" is not a real thing. But "sex trafficking your kids" is a real thing that Matt Gaetz got caught doing.
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Malevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back"
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Gail Labovitz @gailsl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Thread well worth a few minutes of your time…
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@CoffeeShopRabbi.com @rruth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Book of Isaiah says, "Nachamu, nachamu ami" ["Comfort, comfort My people"]. This thread about comfort and discomfort makes a good point.
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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is long, but it really sums up an important issue. If your rallying slogan is so broad that some people can say it to mean a substantive peace process and two state solution while other people are literally yelling it as they commit murder, it's a problem. 
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Kosherart @kosherart.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Do we all agree on what he slogan Free Palestine” means? I took screenshots of an illustrated post by Jordyn Tilchen on Instagram explaining how it was designed to be vague & sow chaos by not having a 100% clear definition. Please read this through this thread & understand the manipulation at work.>
THE PROBLEM WITH
"FREE PALESTINE”

It's probably the most successful slogan of the last decade.
It's also one of the least specific.
That's not a bug. It's a feature.

Thought bubble: “Okay, but… what does it actually mean?” (Asking for a friend)
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@MohanadElshieky

Please stop saying the vaccine doesn't have severe side effects. I took my shots and now I'm alive and have to keep working
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It still sickens me this bigot mocked a disabled reporter and millions of Americans said, “No big deal. That’s who I want as president.”
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
They hate him. They really hate him.
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Pete Hegseth’s Ruthless Pentagon Nickname
They hate him.
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Gail Labovitz @gailsl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
How about neither association is okay? Antisemitism is an across the political spectrum problem, and denouncing theirs while pretending ours don’t exist, or excusing them for any reason, is a deeply unserious take no matter which side it comes from.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
as a jew who cares a lot about these issues, the fact that the worlds richest and perhaps most powerful man routinely spouts nazi propaganda is very bad and the main story here. But I'd note there's a bit of a gender story in this "poll" as well.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Settlements are pure business decisions. If Meta was willing to pay $18 billion, imagine how guilty they must’ve been, how big they feared the real damages would be, and how insanely profitable it was to do this wrong in the first place.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Oz is claiming that the two measles deaths in Pennsylvania might have “had another condition that was already attacking them and they happened to get measles at the same time”. This implies that 1. It’s okay if kids with comorbidities die of measles. 2. That they would have died anyway so nbd.
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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
One of the deaths was a baby who was too young for vaccines. The other condition that led to that child's death was the fact that they were a fragile newborn infant. Mehmet Oz can go to hell. 
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Gail Labovitz @gailsl.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Or will they be too busy arguing among themselves about who supposedly took AIPAC money?
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Buckingham Palace band playing 9 to 5 for Dolly Parton
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
From the Empire State Building Observation Deck: Tonight, the Empire State Building tower lights will turn to a pink sparkle at 9:25 to honor the late Dolly Parton.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Reminder: Dolly Parton helped fund the Moderna vaccine for COVID.
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Dolly Parton, who helped fund the Moderna vaccine, gets a ‘dose of her own medicine.’ (Published 2021)
The country music star broke into song before she was inoculated, and urged her fans to “get out there and get your shot.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026
"I was not shocked that he helped somebody. My shock is that he was murdered. And no one has given us the complete truth or anyone has been held accountable. And it's been 7 months! ... there was more effort in vilifying him than pursuing justice" -- Alex Pretti's parents
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Title: On holiday with the compulsive browsers 

Panel 1: Browsing in the airport bookstore despite already having bags filled with books 

Panel 2: Browsing in a charming local bookshop despite not speaking a word of the language 

Panel 3: Browsing in the Airbnb despite there being only four novels, the oven manual and a pizza menu
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A possible romantic relationship between a president and one of his aides isn’t something the public needs to know about. by Ken Starr and Newt Gingrich
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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daniel sieradski @self.agency · 17/08/2026
democrats take money from investment bankers, lawyers, tech bros, health insurers, hollywood, oil & gas cos., telecom providers, and all manner of industries that engage in shitty behavior that's bad for people and the planet but only one lobby is seen as resolute evil despite all of them sucking
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Rabbi Sara Zober @rebbesmz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This thread 🔥🔥🔥
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Matriarchy Now @matriarchy.now · 11/08/2026
If we haven't been reminding you enough, vote because your life depends upon it.
Women entering a voting booth with white hoods and red robes. Exiting the voting booth wearing whatever clothes they choose.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
the press corps just held a dinner in his honor
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
As we keep saying, the term “Zionist” is increasingly a cover for just doing “secret Jewish puppetmasters running everything” bog-standard antisemitism and y’all can just stop wasting everyone’s time and say what you mean, because it’s pretty transparent at this point.
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Cassidy's rational self-evidently bankrupt. He says another acting AG would be worse. But his vote secures the confirmation of the candidate who has been shown to champion the worst possible DOJ practices. That's what he's ratifying -- it's not a guessing game.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
A special place in hell for Cassidy, Cornyn, Tillis. The only good R is a defeated R.
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 05/08/2026
I’m sure this will be a v popular take (lol) but the viciousness directed today at Stevens/supporters (see comments) show a mvmt that doesn’t appreciate what it takes to get out of authoritarianism. You don’t reverse backsliding w/o an awkward coalition. Stop shaming her supporters & try to win them
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Robert Brendel @robertbrendel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
BREAKING: A reporter asked Mike Johnson at a press conference today, “Should we bother asking you any questions about Max Miller, Trump’s latest Iran deal, or his Capital One scandal, or have you not heard about any of them yet?"
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Rick McKee @rmckee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I drew this August 23, 2022, and it’s coming to pass.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Weird he can’t bring this kind of energy towards his colleague who is accused of beating up his daughter.
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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
If Fauci had come back with "I'm a guy who would never ignore his son-in-law beating the shit out of his own daughter," I'd have asked for his hand in marriage.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 28/07/2026
Seeing the President fall asleep in the middle of public events should be a major story, yet somehow it isn’t.
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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It's insane he wasn't immediately fired on January 6 after writing this.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
“Iran is a country run by religious extremists, y’all!!!”
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I am always trying to explain to folks that most Americans have never met a Jew and people do not believe me and I just need you to understand that the perception that we are a powerful group in this country is intentionally created by antisemites and you’re unknowingly buying in.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Just so we’re all clear, the stockpiles are depleted because of Biden, the stockpiles are not depleted, and anyone reporting on these Schrödinger’s stockpiles should be in prison.
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Gail Labovitz @gailsl.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
My father just recently turned 87…
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Pretty crazy that in the most gossipy town in America, full of ravenously ambitious people always talking to other ravenously ambitious people, where influence is about knowing firsthand, no journalists know for sure what's going on with Mitch McConnell. What are the odds.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I want to be the first to congratulate the reporter(s) who are feverishly gathering intel on Mitch McConnell's status right now that will be published in a bestselling tell-all book in about a year.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 30/10/2025
When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This shit with Taylor Farms is exactly what I’m talking about when I say you may say you “don’t do politics,“ but politics are more than happy to do you. The microbes political bribes got out the door and into your intestines don’t particularly care that you find it all beneath you.
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏
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