Apart from the fact that it’s not obvious to me why that would be an issue, Puerto Rico is part of the United States and Spanish is one of its official languages, so Spanish isn’t a foreign language.

Interesting to read Paul say that a man praying with something on his head is disgracing God. The exact opposite of Judaism!

Another whiplash is literal letters becoming part of the Christian Biblical canon.

The only AI that I would support.

Don’t hardcore Christians think everything is a sin?

“No they’re not.” -Supreme Court of Canada

Someone on TikTok pointed out that bad bunny has more monthly Spotify listeners than trump has voters

In 1979, the “New York Times” asked Isaac Bashevis Singer if he planned to watch the Super Bowl.

Can’t wait for Trump to decide that it’s a good idea to let AI run nuclear missiles.

ethics professor here, can confirm

I like how the Lord of the Rings ends with everyone just fucking off and sailing away to a place where this bullshit doesn’t happen

Look, I don’t want to kink-shame but “you shall feast [on] three feet each year” (Exodus 23:14) is certainly a bit of a weird commandment...

For my housewarming, I wrote a d’var Torah on the commandment to “honour your father and mother,” offering to read it differently for those who have a difficult relationship to their parents:

Terraria TikToks making casual anti-ICE jokes. I have no regrets to report that we are going to win.

Casual reminder that if you know a cute sapphic who would like to wife up a Canadian, you should connect us. 😏 Bonus points if they want to do Shabbat and other Jewish stuff with me.

One of the most sickening realizations I've ever had came when it hit me that six hundred years from now historians will be writing things like "while technically illegal, intercourse with minors was broadly accepted as normal among the American ruling class, and even a marker of status"

Some days the romantic loneliness is a bit harder. Sometimes, these are even those days when you’re the most surrounded by loved ones.

Yeah you could say I’m socially liberal and fiscally conservative. By which I mean that I think workers should conserve the means of production. ⚡️

Fascinating comment in Fox’s footnotes, which makes me wonder whether the prohibition is placed where it was because folks thought that human-animal demigods came from fucking animals/animal-shaped gods.

“Widow and orphan” often come together in the Hebrew Bible for the simple reason that the orphan is the widow’s child. In the biblical context, orphan is defined as lacking a father, who is the “master of the house.”

It’s perhaps natural to think that Exodus 22:18 (“don’t fuck animals”) would be directed at women given that it’s immediately preceded by “our sorceresses to death” and is also found explicitly directed at women in Deuteronomy, but it’s actually written in the masculine.

this is the easiest, most straightforward opportunity that dems have to just.. say this, and I‘m not optimistic that many of them will.

Lincoln Lawyer is so unrealistic. A lesbian saying she has too much going on to date, and the other one comforts her and convinces her it’s fine to keep going at whatever speed suits her? Utter pish posh!

So, so cursed. 😆 Discount Youppi. 😤

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

This book of short stories for Hebrew learners had one about R’ Levi-Yitzhak of Berditchez, one of my favourite rebbes, and it took until the very last line but it didn’t disappoint. The Berditchever does not miss.

To be fair, what they want is no trans people.

They were also very plausibly right about “an eye for an eye” being about how to set compensation and not about exacting vengeance on the body. The last thing said before that sentence is a reference to mediators, in the context of how to set compensation where no bodily harm occurs.

Yeah, the rabbis were 100% right and the “don’t steal” of the Ten Commandments for sure refers to kidnapping.

Too bad transphobes don’t care about evidence.

Obviously the concern over Epstein is beyond justified, but maybe she’s not *entirely* wrong and someone ~should~ write the essay about how most pedophiles aren’t billionaires and more like our dads, brothers, uncles, sons…

On iPhone, is there a way to send a text message to multiple people at once without making it a group chat?

I wanna personally congratulate Hunter Biden for not only being nowhere near the Epstein files but for having rock-solid reviews from sex workers for respectfulness and tipping

They don't tell you when you do your 8th grade report on #Jupiter that you'll spend the rest of your life reacting to Jupiter news like you've got some special connection. Like, Jupiter?! Oh, I went to school with her.

I’m on page 95 of this 151-pages Kabbalah book and it finally actually referred to a Kabbalistic concept!

Maybe we do need to close TikTok.

The Wayback is now so load-bearing we should be protecting it with our actual lives

Dear Synagogue staff: I’m sure you’re all hard at work planning your Purim parties, but if it’s not this wild then I’m not going

Trial batch for Friday. Also my first time making latkes fully solo!

Sometimes I have bad joke ideas but don’t post them because I’m worried about the quote tweet bent interpreted as a dig at the quoted post rather than me just saying random shit.

For those who know better than me, is there a significant difference I'm missing between מלפני and simply לפני? There's a few cases the meaning does seem different - for instance, when leaving someone's presence - but it seems that most of the time they mean "before X" in the exact same way?

what a godawful day for journalism, following a great many other godawful days for journalism

My hot take is that I really wish Moshe Cordovero had lived AFTER Isaac Luria rather than before him. Because Luria was really head-in-the-clouds and the Ramak's skills as a systematist and rationalist would have been wondrously useful in making sense of the Ari's powerful ideas.

These are the last words in the last column I wrote for The Washington Post, titled "When institutions crumble, strongmen step in". www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Jeff Bezos could have spun off the Washington Post into an independent nonprofit with a few billion dollars for an endowment and been a hero by spending what, for him, is pocket change.

Anyone else sometimes get uncomfortable when thinking about someone else for too long, like it’s somehow invasive?

I just don’t think Kabbalists should be allowed to talk about physics. It’s for their own good.

obscene. as alan richter says in the article: the officers would have known through that encounter that she was a lawyer. impossible not to see the confluence of anti-black racism, misogyny, & unchecked police violence so familiar to the criminal system, now turned against one of its members.

Given Romans 14:20-21, shouldn’t every Christian-owned restaurant be kosher? 🤔

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.