Spent all night reading and watching videos on Jewish history and I realize I'm gonna need to go back and take detailed notes A lot of this stuff was never taught to me, or movies gave me very wrong ideas

Seeing AI slop of Torah portions on my recommended page feels so wrong 🥲

In the new year, we’re not engaging with trolls and those who would selfishly take our energy. No wasting time getting into meaningless arguments with strangers online. The new year is about community. Engage intentionally my friends.

Hey, lots of good people are addicts. RFK is a bad person. It has nothing to do with his heroin use. My mom was a heroin addict and an amazing person. I'm a recovering alcoholic. Stop shitting on addicts. It is not a moral failing, it's a disease. You're part of the problem if you're doing this.

There’s something perversely edifying about seeing someone already thoroughly discredited throw an antisemitic hail mary (so as to speak) for attention. Like, mother fucker, is that the best you’ve got? Sad and Juiceless.

To a better year. Shana tova!

I think I'm gonna make a genuine attempt to quit drinking this year. Shana Tova!

The funniest part about the Rapture thing is even if they're right, we're still gonna celebrate Rosh Hashanah as usual and just go "huh.. Neat! anyways, Shana Tova!"

you can love a character and still admit when they're wrong. we love Shadow but we can acknowledge his flaws (he has none) and we can hold him accountable for his wrongdoings (he has never done anything wrong in his life) and call him out on his actions (which are always correct)

I could just be naive, but it seems to me that if taking tylenol while pregnant increased the risk of autism in babies in any meaningful way, autism would be nearly omnipresent in newborns.

On this day fifteen years ago, Tyler Clementi tragically died by suicide following severe cyberbullying by his roommate at Rutgers University. Let us honor Tyler’s memory by being Upstanders who lead with kindness, compassion, and respect for all people.

Shana Tova!!

i dont drag atheists for being irreligious, dont drag religious people for being religious. it should be as easy as that

Religious trans Jew-in-progress here! I won't set aside my beliefs or be any less of a leftist because of them. What everyone actually needs is critical thinking skills to go alongside whatever they believe, even if they're not religious.

skip the bullshit and just word filter every post someone writes about religion with "islam" or "jusaism" in place of the word "religion". if someone wont stand by their own words written more specifically, they have no business speaking so generally.

I think evangelizing antitheists need to consider that other religions are not complicit in the harm that imperial hegemonic white Christianity has inflicted. They aren’t Christianity minus Jesus. Call out Christendom, please. But leave marginalized people alone.

if you passive aggressively look down on others that dont know as much as you, even when they have a genuine desire to, then you are telling on yourself about your own ignorance

Chiitan loves all transgender people. I've received a lot of criticism for expressing my support, but what's more important is that all transgender people live happy lives. Blue Sky cannot display long posts, so please read this post if you'd like. love you all 🤍 ↓ www.instagram.com/reel/C9qppva...

I was upset over a misunderstanding a family member had that caused an argument, so I went to my bedroom and a few minutes later, my nephew comes in And he hugs me and says "you have that" he points to my cat Kiri "and that" he points to my cat Arty "so you'll be okay"

Hmmmm. So, 25% of the US doctors are foreign-trained, and most of them at some point of their career require H1B visa. I don't know how many doctors with active licenses require H1B visa currently, but this is really stupid 👇🏻

You cannot go "we want more skilled American workers so we're gonna make the H1B visa costly!" and then do anything and everything in your power to make it impossible for average Americans to become anything more than wage slaves barely able to pay rent.

Generative AI that seeks to replace human creativity is idolatry to me idc.

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"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." Elie Wiesel

Remember that fascists cannot deal with comedians. Humor and satire undermines them. That’s why they’ve targeted Kimmel and Colbert. Fascists have the thinnest skins. They pretend to be strong, but it is always an act.

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I feel like there is confusion about why Judaism and Christianity are different religions. It's this confusion that allows for Messianic Judaism (a branch of Protestant Christianity) and various Christian groups to make use of post-1st-century Jewish rituals and objects. A quick explainer.

I've been thinking a lot about Bereshit. During creation, the first thing G-d thinks isn't good is being alone. At the end of the day, I don't care if my faith is the truth or not, if it's historically inaccurate or not. That's not why I value it. The value comes from who faith brings together.

I feel like gentile Christians should shut up when it comes to texts that are not the NT because they typically have little idea we have texts we study rigorously besides the "Old Testament" or even what their purpose and context is

Instead of the "Rest in Peace" I grew up with, I learned "May their memory be a blessing" from the Torah. It transformed my grief into a source of warmth. Practice what you will, but leave our book out of it. It takes two (or more) to Torah and there are seventy faces for a reason.

This man is your friend; he fights for freedom

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Just had to listen to a *PAGAN* family member call Ben Shapiro a "cowardly Jew Boy like those who killed Christ" and then lecture me about how I was one of those unempathetic heartless liberals. Didn't even give an opinion, was just shouted at and then expected to react calmly. 🙃

One life does not outweigh the lives of over 700,000 other human beings. Pikuach nefesh.

The actual identity & motive of the killer is irrelevant to the US political pundit industrial complex. Everyone already has their standard talking points for a high-profile shooting of a political figure and any information eventually discovered will not change their narratives.

Glenn Beck’s media outlet The Blaze just gave an interview last month to the person who killed the politicians in Minnesota

Opening a "Museum of the Talmud" to compete with the Museum of the Bible and I need exhibit ideas. So far we've got: - Diorama of Pumbedita Yeshiva - A working oven of Achnai - Fingerbone of R. Yochanan's tenth son - Teiku wing (under construction) - "Arguments won by Beit Shammai" plaque

My first Siddur arrived a week early!! And I had a good first session in my Intro class

I feel a big reason some parents snap at their children is because their kids are in a less powerful position and the parents don't expect to suffer any serious consequences for it. Some goes for any other power imbalance, like managers snapping at employees.

My first Intro for Judaism class is today and I'm so nervous since I'll be attending under my dead name 🥲

I have to run, but I'm going to be thinking about this all Shabbat @kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social

oh no

“I don't know what a constitutional crisis would look like,” she said. Evidently.

I've held the door open for you at gas stations. I've helped pick up books that you dropped by accident at bookstores. I've said have a nice day and I've thanked you when you've taken my order at a restaurant. I am not a monster. I study the Torah, I love my girlfriend, and I rescue cats. 🏳️‍⚧️

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

Occasionally I'll run into an atheist friend who acts like I'm a crazy born-again who was dragged into a Church and got brainwashed when I start talking about my journey with Judaism. 😮‍💨 I realize that's how I acted a few times as a teenager, but being on the receiving end sucks.

not gonna pretend to be shocked people are mad about this but the ways they're mad are clear evidence of why we as a society would benefit from them knowing what the fuck they're talking about instead of being so sure that any and all teaching about religion is Christian proselytizing

Yay!!!!!! Im so close to final goal only 1000 away of my goall!!! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥