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I vote for a new grammar rule: “Lay down” henceforth is for placing objects and reclining oneself. It’ll always be a transitive verb. “Lie” in all its conjugations will only refer to telling falsehoods. It’ll be intransitive. Who’s with me?

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One set, religious ecstasy. The other, grief. One set was punished, the other forgiven. May be some fodder in there….

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There’s a great convo around the need to mourn/feeling versus the letter of the law (Elazar & Ithamar mourning Nadab and Abihu.) dovetails into a discussion of personal feeling versus communal duty. Both sets of brothers were sitting in emotion.

…slaughter are about tzaar ba’alei hayyim. What does that means for _our_ bodies that if we choose to eat meat, we can only be sustained by animals who haven’t been cruelly treated and have instead been killed in a manner which causes the least pain to that animal

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Hyphen 🔆 @hyphen.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Couple ideas: My mind immediately went to the kashrut laws. Think about our very bodies as sacred spaces and as having avenues for holiness. What we bring into them is what we get. There may be something there (in full acknowledgement of the realities of shechita) that a lot of our laws of…

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Bluesky when it was invite-to-join was better. I know good things can't last and I know why it had to be publicly released. But it was glorious. It felt like I was talking to friends

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Hyphen 🔆 @hyphen.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Chuck Norris didn’t die, he decided to go with Death for drinks

And the lips are off. And he's less expressive. Donald Trump talks with his hands a lot. Here, his hands are nowhere to be seen. Also his speech is less expressive. The vowel sounds are more centralized that feels normal

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It’s been a while since I’ve been on. This administration and the recent news have really been trying my patience. I’m trying to hold to my principles even in the face of people who may not deserve it or extend me the same courtesy. It’s hand

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Charlie Kirk is as much a victim of the NRA and their resistance to sensible gun laws as is any victim of gun violence. We cannot suspend our ethical philosophies even toward people whom we consider our adversaries. The flames of political violence of any form must be quenched

When news media incentivizes rage and guns are as accessible as they are here, it's like setting up the powder-keg and handing someone a match. Blood is blood. When will politicians stop allowing ourselves to be victims of their own stupidity and myopia and instead work to resolve this crisis?

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I have seen countless school shootings in my lifetime. How many dead children is too many? When does the bloodguilt of children become too heavy to lift from one's shoulders? When will we stop accepting that gun violence is normal?

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But I can mourn that he permanently lost any opportunity to better himself. His comments about gun violence have been posted to death, as have GOP talking points regarding gun control. It's exhausting. Christian kids were murdered in a church. Today, kids in Denver were murdered in school.

He no longer has the opportunity to do teshuva. I cannot mourn the man. He would not have cared if my religious rights or the rights of my family members were stripped away. In fact, he would have encouraged it, as several of my family members are members of the LGBTQ+ community.

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He fomented political violence and ended a victim of it. While I find it hard to feel sympathy for a man who spread hate, his children are now fatherless and his wife is a widow. That is nothing to celebrate. So I mourn who he could have been. He no longer has the opportunity for introspection.

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I've thought a lot about freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequence. And the paradox of tolerance still applies. I don't think Charlie's views have any place in civilized society, nor should he have ever had a platform to spread his beliefs.

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I've seen it said that if you don't want people celebrating your death, don't live in a manner which will lead to people celebrating your death. While I agree with that in principle, if I can justify withholding empathy from people I dislike, I can justify it for anyone. I can't cross that line.

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While he was alive, he gleefully attacked, mocked, and belittled people. He fomented fascism and misogyny. And I can’t help but feel sad that he wasted his one and only life being hateful until his violent end, when at any moment he could have turned around.

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We can never know who Charlie could have been tomorrow. I think it’s always possible for people to right their wrongs and change for the better. That doesn’t mean the people he’s hurt are obliged to forgive him if he asks. Or even help him on his potential journey of self-reflection.

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Hyphen 🔆 @hyphen.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I have incredibly mixed feelings. What happened in Utah today was awful. I don't condone retribution, nor murder, nor the “eye for an eye” mentality. It’s tribalistic and feeds into the most animal impulses we have as humans. Perhaps if he had lived, he could have begun to seek repentance and repair

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A phone booth in the corner to listen to the Bat Kol

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Hyphen 🔆 @hyphen.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Pilgrim pie? That's a very American answer and less universal, though

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/04/2025

these people hate DEI because they would be unemployable in any system where they couldn’t rely on favoritism and nepotism

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Rabbi Jeremy Markiz @jeremymarkiz.com · 15/04/2025

The idea that a government agency can knowingly and willing just lie to you as a strategy is unconscionable. Yes, this is a post about ICE. If lying is a fundamental strategy, then it cannot be justice. It is tainted from the outset.

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Hyphen 🔆 @hyphen.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I think in the Beit Yosef, Karo calls it "minhag shtut" - foolish custom. But look at the word מנהג — it's Gehinnom backwards. My personal logic for eating kitniyot

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Reminders: "Concentration camps" aren't the same as "extermination camps." Both were/are horrific. Most Nazi camps were *outside Germany*, away from the eyes of German citizens. Those trains? Were to, uh, deport the category of people whose lives were deemed unimportant. Never again is now.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 08/04/2025

All this guy does is narrate what's happening. He doesn't do anything to stop it. He just... talks about it. New Yorkers, feel free to call him up and tell him to retire. reps.fyi

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Hyphen 🔆 @hyphen.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I don't know about the Orthodox movement, but Conservative/Masorti Judaism has ruled that all wine is kosher (the teshuva is quite long, but that's the conclusion). One should ideally use mevushal wine for kiddush. So if it's a halakhic concern, any Canadian wine should be fine.

Rabbi Jeremy Markiz @jeremymarkiz.com · 31/03/2025

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You don’t deserve to be a leader in the US if you don’t believe in due process. The lowest of bars. These folks are fascists.

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adivinalo.bsky.social @adivinalo.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible. Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Rabbi Mike Rothbaum @ravmike.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

History will see these photos as indelible proof of an assault on both human rights and human decency. For Jews, how we responded will reveal whether and how we stayed true to our Jewish values. And how Jewish orgs responded will indicate whether they had any legitimate claims on our allegiance.

abduction of Tufts student Runeysa Ozturk on a street in Somerville MA

Kristi Noem speaking in front of a Salvadoran concentration camp

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...person's resources until they are dead. Just like in the movie. That's what Fox News (and now Twitter) are doing to our fellow Americans. It's a never-ending stream of lies designed to maximize the illusory truth effect. It's using Orwell as a guidebook. I wonder how we survive 6/6

...replaces you with an imposter that thrives on cruelty. I know the original '50s movie the metaphor was for communist Russia. But I think the metaphor is apt. The original people are gone. What's left has their memories and knowledge, but cannot feel as they once did, and uses the... 5/6

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Those two things have no connection. But because he thinks I'm a Democrat (I'm not), I must be pro-Hamas & anti-Zionist. Have you seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers? It's like Fox News are sci-fi villains with a death ray. But instead of killing you, it drains you of all your empathy and... 4/6

He accused me of being anti-EV. I said I wasn't. I just didn't like Elon, and accused Elon of being a Nazi and doing a Nazi salute. The guy said that it wasn't a Nazi salute and then said. "So do you support what Hamas did on October 7, because it seems like you might" 3/6

There are a few, however, who are pro-Trump and pro-Elon. I was talking about a Tesla protest and explained that I was anti-Elon. I was asked why by a shul member, who said that Elon was cleaning things up and insuring I'd have social security, and that Tesla was great. 2/6

It's so terrifying. Elon buying the information highway. Installing a fascist president. It goes back to Citizen's United. That was the beginning of the end of the illusion of democracy in the United States. The thing that's most upsetting--at my shul a majority of the people are anti-Trump. 1/6

Rabbi Alissa Wise @alissashira.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

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Let this radicalize you!

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Hyphen 🔆 @hyphen.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

This is absolutely unconscionable and vile. It is inhuman. I struggle to understand how these people can look themselves in the mirror and feel justified. May Hamdan Ballal live and be returned in fullness of body and spirit www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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Palestinian director of 'No Other Land' attacked by settler mob, arrested by soldiers

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Rabbi Sandra @rabbisandra.org · 23/03/2025

Let’s be clear: when powerful men call empathy a weakness, what they’re really saying is, “Stop caring about people we want to hurt.” Empathy is not the enemy. It’s a threat to systems built on cruelty. It disrupts power. It softens hearts. It humanizes the “other.”

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Hyphen 🔆 @hyphen.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

You pathetic cowards. Did you not go to grammar school? Avoid the passive voice. "Seen as an escalation?" Try this: The White House directed federal law enforcement to seek action against lawyers who challenge the President's actions, suspending the 1st Amendment right to a redress of grievances