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Joshua Gutoff

@jgutoff.bsky.social
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Therapist, educator, and writer. Also, teacher of Jewish things. Interested in ethics. And the imagination. And fingerstyle blues guitar. He/him/his.

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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Are you familiar with the work that Dr. Peter Hotez has done on this? For example: peterhotez.org/combatingant...
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Combating Antisemitism
On Antiscience and AntisemitismDownload Science Tikkun: A Bioscience Pandemic Framework in a Hebrew Tradition of Global Repair Science Tikkun A Bioscience Pandemic Framework in a Hebrew Tradition o…
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Very cool indeed! Have you checked out the traditions about the *luz* bone, or were you already thinking about it? There are, of course, various opinions about which bone it is, but C1 seems to be it according to some of them.
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hey, @dieworkwear.bsky.social : This showed up on my feed. Now, to my untrained eye this is not only ugly, but ill-fitting. But this is Brooks Bros. What am I missing? Thanks. www.brooksbrothers.com/the-no.-1-sa...
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The No. 1 Sack Sport Coat in Patchwork Wool | Brooks Brothers
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Can I put in a plug for Patricia C. Wrede’s amazing Enchanted Forest series (in which, as a side point, dragons get to choose their own gender)?
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Wasn't this an episode of Justified?
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Those Gen Zers dress like they've never worn clothes before.
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Then there's Diacritical Behavioral Therapy, which is what b'nai mitzvah tutors do.
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
”Perhaps there has never been a group of people treated so badly in our Nation’s history…” Sure sounds like he’s making a case for reparations.
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Boris Wetwipes
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The Onion is, in fact, Americas best news source. share.google/bARLMxwJVCAE...
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Report: Nation's Gentrified Neighborhoods Threatened By Aristocratization
WASHINGTON—According to a report released Tuesday by the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think tank, the recent influx of exceedingly affluent powder-wigged aristocrats into the nation’s gen...
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Ok, lesson learned. The second time we have to scrounge for dinner because @honeygrow.bsky.social sent the wrong order is the last time I’ll bother.
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Court holds that enslaved people are not citizens, and that Congress has no authority to ban slavery from a federal territory.
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Gershom Gorenberg גרשום גורנברג @gershomg.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I am in the unfortunate position of being right, having said during the Iran war that it was a massive, lethal con. tiny.cc/7ti0101
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The Same War, on a Loop
We’ve gotten all too used to missile alerts, existential anxiety, and suspicions of political bad faith.
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Does the writer think people *aren't* reading Pratchett? Goodreads lists 51 English language editions (not printings, editions) of Nightwatch alone. And by the way, happy 25th of May.
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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The six real Talmudic genders are: - obligated in positive time-bound mitzvot - witches, probably - you thought it was a beautiful woman bathing in the river, but it's a beautiful rabbi instead - tumtum, the mystery gender - the Satan in a wig and dress, à la Bugs Bunny - Adam (pre-Eve)(look it up)
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
See also "Frankie and Johnny", where Kathy Bates, who originated the role on stage, was replaced by Michelle Pfeiffer in the movie.
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
What a wonderful book!
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I’d go with “Baruch sheptarani m’onosho shel zeh” “Blessed be the One who freed me from this guy’s punishment.”
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BreadPanes 🍔🏳️‍🌈 @breadpanes.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
AI rots your brain. Writing with ChatGPT is worse than writing shitfaced after a pub crawl.
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
2a) The Bund's rejection of nationalism notwithstanding, the hoped-for class solidarity did not appear. "The Poles never thought of us as Poles. We were Jews."
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Of course, none of this means that the Bund shouldn't be remembered, or that the attempt to develop radically new notions of Jewish identity isn't desperately important.
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
3) And forget solidarity across even the Jewish left. Zeide was sent to the Gulag as a political prisoner when he was ID'd as a socialist by Jewish communists.
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
2) The Bund was anti-Zionist because they were anti-state in general; "national liberation" could be at most a stepping stone for global liberation. And the idea of a national liberation movement led by religious fundamentalists would have been seen as an oxymoron.
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
1) The Bund was primarily a radical, even revolutionary, Socialist movement/party for Jews, and only secondarily a movement of Yiddishist diaspora culture a la Dubnow. That was more the Arbiter Ring.
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I haven't yet read the book on the Bund, but my grandfather had been a leader in pre-war Poland and then in NYC (he worked with Szmul Zygielbojm in London during the war). A brief thread of important things I learned from him that might be important in judging its relevance for today:
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Even from this height it looks pretty big.
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Also, it's doubtful that many of the reviewers know enough about the history of the Bund and its historical context to critique it.
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
there’s no place like Brooklyn for overhearing great conversations!
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Wow!
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Where are you finding college courses in Biblical purity laws?
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Guess who didn’t get invited to his daughter’s for Seder?
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
What wouldn’t I have given to see SMG take on Stephen Miller in the (now cancelled) Buffy sequel.
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Those are all Hebrew Bible (aka Old Testament). And yes, folks, I know they're not exactly the same - the books are in a different order, some Christian traditions include the Apocrypha - but for the purposes of this discussion it'll do.
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
This is the fast I desire: To unlock fetters of wickedness, And untie the cords of the yoke To let the oppressed go free; To break off every yoke. It is to share your bread with the hungry, And to take the wretched poor into your home... (Is. 58: 6-7)
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
You shall not ill-treat any widow or orphan. If you do mistreat them, I will heed their outcry as soon as they cry out to Me, and My anger shall blaze forth and I will put you to the sword, and your own wives shall become widows and your children orphans. (Ex. 22: 21-23)
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. (Lev. 19-33-34).
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Stay safe, bro.
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anthony russell @mordkhetzvi.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
me, re: Super Bowl:
Nobel Prize winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer, commenting on the Super Bowl in a newspaper column: “Sports? The Super what? I didn't know there was a Super Bowl. My dear friend, you're asking the wrong person. I have never heard of a Super Bowl. I am so far from it that you really shouldn't ask me. It's as if I would ask you what is happening at the planet Mars. The president will watch? The president knows some thing about football? Everything you tell me now, I hear for the first time in my life. Sunday will be like any other day, doing my work.”
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
If my uncle or my neighbor had reposted that video I'd see it as a gut-wrenching celebration of his racist ugliness of spirit. But when the President reposts it, it's a reminder that racist ugliness of spirit is part of the platform of the ruling party and official government policy.
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
@nytimes.com Re: “Days Before His Suicide, Hemingway’s Hopeful Note to Sister Immaculata” The word in the inscription is “hoping”, not “happy”.
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
A Robert Palmer tribute act?
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Damn, but those leopards have sharp teeth.
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
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Gene Kelly on Instagram: "“Dignity, always dignity.” 😂 Gene Kelly with Donald O’Connor in a segment from ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ (1952). #musical #genekelly"
659 likes, 5 comments - genekellydaily on November 22, 2022: "“Dignity, always dignity.” 😂 Gene Kelly with Donald O’Connor in a segment from ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ (1952). #musical #genekelly".
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
We'll meet again!
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I think that Santa is actually a repudiation of Christianity, which proclaims salvation through *faith*. We're all Naughty by birth, and no-one can be Nice enough to merit the presents of Salvation; rather, what we deserve is (eternally burning) coal. Santa-ism is davka the opposite.
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
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Joshua Gutoff @jgutoff.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Looking forward to the answer!
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