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Yossi Mandel @ymandel.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Fresh homemade almond butter at your service

deli container filled to brim with almond butter

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Yossi Mandel @ymandel.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I see protesting is the new patriotism. It's also Talmudic.

Rosh_Hashanah.19a
When the oppressive government decreed destruction upon Israel, forbidding them from studying Torah and from circumcising their sons, and requiring them to desecrate the Sabbath, what did Yehuda ben Shamu'a and his colleagues do?They went and sought counsel from one woman who was frequented by all the high-ranking Romans. She said to them, "Come and protest at night."They came and protested at night and said, "Heavens! Are we all not brothers? Are we all not children of the same father? Are we all not children of the same mother? Why are we different from every other nation and tongue that you make harsh decrees against us?"They rescinded the decrees, and they declared the day a holiday.

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Yossi Mandel @ymandel.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Some days you win a Hugo. And some days you win a Yugo.

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Yossi Mandel @ymandel.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Rabbi Binyamin "Hillel" Dreyer at your service

Benjamin Dreyer

‪@bcdreyer.social‬
1. Don't snitch-tag.
2. Don't explain to people what they just said.
3. Don't "correct" people's jokes.
4. Don't respond seriously to silly little posts.
5. Don't respond trivially to obviously serious posts.
6. Don't "jocularly insult" people you don't know.

The rest is commentary.

‪Daniel Joyaux‬
‪@thirdmanmovies.bsky.social‬
· 15h
People should have to pass a social media etiquette class before they’re allowed to purchase a smart phone.

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Yossi Mandel @ymandel.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The best bbq place in NYC is not giving you any bread. You want bread, order a burger.

Izzys Smokehouse bbq platter in Brooklyn

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Yossi Mandel @ymandel.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The boys watching the drama unfold this past day (courtesy of a funny guy over on the bad place)

Chasidim and their Rebbe staring at a laptop

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Yossi Mandel @ymandel.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

*runs in* Then you'll enjoy our 25 years old Ikea bookcases...

5 dark red oak Ikea bookcases filled with books behind a grey couch

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Yossi Mandel @ymandel.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Holy Moses. I knew about Jacob Riis from the photographer historians at B&H Photo, but never knew this part! Especially considering this beautiful shot of his of a Jewish man observing Shabbos in a tenement.

a Jewish man observing Shabbos in a tenement by Jacob Riis

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Yossi Mandel @ymandel.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

@gailsimone.bsky.social about Ben Grimm being Jewish (saw the mention on Twitter, locked down there) Jack Kirby 1976 Chanukah card:

Chanukah card 1976 by Jack Kirby, showing Ben Grimm aka The Thing with a Menorah in the background, holding a Siddur for the prayers, wearing a yarmulkah, wearing a Tallis. on his collar it says in Hebrew, "Chanukah wishes."

Text on the card reads: "Remembering you at Hanukkah and hoping you will find that your holiday leaves many special memories behind. Happy Hanukkah"
signed: "The Kirbys"

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Yossi Mandel @ymandel.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Dude. (Reminder to Alex and y'all to turn on the thingie that tells you to add alt text before posting an image)

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Yossi Mandel @ymandel.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

an antisemite to block and add to your block lists of antisemites willichsraccoon dot bsky.social

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Yossi Mandel @ymandel.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy

Lubavitcher Rebbe handing a coin to a young girl to give to charity, surrounded by women and children waiting their turn

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Yossi Mandel @ymandel.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Especially didn't like how the Eco chamber named things

cover of Umberto Eco's book The Name Of The Rose

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Yossi Mandel @ymandel.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Sorry the most well known I ever got was for defending Hawai'ian sovereignty

Yossi Mandel
@ymandel
Bottom line: Don't travel to Hawai'i, tourists not welcome, and understand that it's an independent country under US military occupation and is having its resources depleted
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@eviIeIf
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Dec 27, 2021
at this point it basically feels like I’m begging my non Hawai’i mutuals to educate themselves on hawaiian sovereignty/demilitarization and more recently our water crisis because frankly it’s exhausting to see literally only locals talking about it

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Yossi Mandel @ymandel.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Sorry John, we were busy celebrating Sukkos, and that's nothing to shake a stick at.

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Yossi Mandel @ymandel.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

In honor of all these top percentage badges, gonna bring over from the bad place, the best of this thread of the 12th century Raavad insulting Maimonides (yes, that Maimonides). Page 249: "By the life of my head, there's no point here." Page 271: "The mind cannot accept any of this."

maimonides nutz
@maimonides_nutz
Top 5 religious philosophers I would travel back in time to physically fight, ranked:

1. The RaBAD
2. The RaBAD
3. The RaBAD
4. The RaBAD
5. The RaBAD

Me:

In honor of this tweet, we're gonna focus on the Raavad and his one-way rivalry with the Rambam.

The man could do sharp and pithy.

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Yossi Mandel @ymandel.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

Hey look I summoned an idiot

Jeff Yang‬ ‪@originalsp.in‬
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13h
My mistake to suggest that the ticket saying “Israel needs to stop killing Palestinians” and explicitly calling out the Netanyahu government is a meaningful statement I guess. It certainly is the first time I’ve seen either Harris or Walz call him out by name.
‪Yossi Mandel‬ ‪@ymandel.bsky.social‬
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5h
On this issue, no matter what you say in any direction, there will be idiots in the mentions. You're fine (I mean you know that already).
Patrick Stewart Sutcliffe
‪@peaceforgaza.bsky.social‬
The point is Walz is not

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Yossi Mandel @ymandel.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

The new assistant Blueppy is here to help with that

Microsoft clippy saying: it looks like you're trying to post an image without alt text. Would you prefer to be on Twitter where they do that?

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Yossi Mandel @ymandel.bsky.social · 05/07/2024

Does every whitebro who seems to be writing progressive comics end up like this?

comic panel Pearls Before Swine by Stephen Pastis mocking that we no longer use certain words that are harmful to others

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Yossi Mandel @ymandel.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

in which @scalzi.com as is his creative wont invents a new type of music. Which sounds strangely like Yacht Rot. Which would be a great name for a rock band.

from whatever.com:

So: Between this very instant and my return home from Worldcon in mid-August (and probably a few days after that too, because: sleep), I am on summer vacation. I’m letting the part of my brain dedicated to writing pay copy lie fallow for a couple of months so that it can rest and regenerate, and so I can, in a relaxed-as-possible fashion, do other things that I want and/or need to do in my life. I’m not disappearing (in fact, hanging around on Whatever is one of the things I want to do!), I’m just doing the mental version of sitting on the beach with a frilly drink, listening to yacht rock and having nothing to do for a long time but more of the same. What’s going in the rest of the world? Who knows. Who cares. I got me some Christopher Cross and everything is groovy.

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Yossi Mandel @ymandel.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

Traditionally, every single Jewish "house of prayer" is in fact a "house of study" and has an extensive library open to the public, the sanctuary doubles as a reading room and study hall, and very often they have a separate reading room.

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Yossi Mandel @ymandel.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

The wackiest thing about statements like this is, replace Zionists with Muslims and Ps with Jews, and you can make the exact same statement, and it will probably be more true. Same for replacing Z with xtians. (and replacing Z with communism...)

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Yossi Mandel @ymandel.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

RABBI YIRMIYA, GET OFF THE BES MEDRASH LAWN, YOU AND YOUR 50 CUBIT LINE HOPPING PIGEONS!!! inspired by @jewishwonk.bsky.social from over on the old site

the football player screaming at the ref

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Yossi Mandel @ymandel.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

These extremely bad-crumb triangle cookies, Hamantashen, are the bane of Jewish life. They celebrate the Holiday of Purim, which is not for another month and a half. How dare they begin selling those shameful cookies now?! (This has been a bluesky test)

Hamantashen begin selling in a bakery today

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