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Teacher, writer, rabbi, thinker, social justice activist. Book: Justice in the City: An Argument from the Sources of Rabbinic Judaism Podcast: Daf Shvui https://dafshvui.buzzsprout.com/
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No words, only tears, and anger. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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Oded and Yocheved Lifshitz were lifelong social activists who fought for coexistence. For years, the pair helped drive sick Palestinians in Gaza to hospitals across Israel for treatment through an organization called On The Way to Recovery. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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Well, there’s a surprise.

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Well… the algorithm sure has me pegged!

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Palestinian filmmakers Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal alongside the Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor made this film at great physical risk to themselves. Studios won't even take the minimal risk of distributing it. Profiles in courage. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/m...

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Coming March 2. Important doc. Important convo.

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Coming March 2. Important doc. Important convo.

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hmmm… www.nbcnews.com/news/world/d...

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Just another day in Trump's America.

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I’m proud to have signed this ad. #SayNoToEthnicCleansing www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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The paper of record, the grey lady, the @nytimes.com covering the important stories. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/s...

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So, for those who are following the important aspects of the whole deepseek tantrum. I asked deepseek what was interesting about Sanhedrin 48, today's daf, and deepseek supplied a very comprehensive and completely wrong answer.

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A letter to [email protected]. Text in following post.

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The anti-affirmative action crowd is now just the anti-Black pro-racist crowd. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

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You can call it defunding, you can call it justice reinvestment, but James Forman Jr.'s piece in today's NYTimes seem to show that it is not only the right thing to do, but it reduces crime. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/m...

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And in other news... things suck everywhere. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Big news! Temporary restraining order granted in the federal funding pause case: OMB is "restrained and prohibited from reissuing, adopting, implementing, or otherwise giving effect to the OMB Directive under any other name or title or through any other Defendants."

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So, @nytimes.com, this is the way you are going to spin the inevitable bending the knee of the foot soldiers of capital to the new hegemon?

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Many people with disagree with this column by @peterbeinart.bsky.social (I am not one of those people) but it is important to read. What are we saying when we demand everybody recognize Israel's right to exist? and why do people say it? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/o...

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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

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It's hard to keep up, but while we are getting at the ways that AI is stealing intellectual property and may, in the future replace us, right now it is being used to conduct war. www.972mag.com/microsoft-az...

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On the day after Trump decided that he was speaking for the people I came out to be with the people declaring that Los Angeles will remain a sanctuary for all fleeing violence and oppression.

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Inauguration Day reading list.

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Classic Trump. Lead with lies ("without even a token of defense"); denigrate those who worked tirelessly to fight the fires; move to those who count in T-world ("… the wealthiest and most powerful"); why they matter (they are "sitting here right now"); and all this is "interesting."

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Who says philosophy is worthless? youtu.be/z867dlHCq9c?...

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The thread that connects the two terrorists is that they were both former members of the US Army. Maybe training folks whose sole mission is to break things and kill people can have unintended consequences?

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The morning after / in the light of day

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Eight.

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Seven.

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The Forward again with the important breaking news of the day. forward.com/fast-forward...

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Six.

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Four

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Two

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One

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As a resident of West LA it's important to take a moment on Christmas Eve to remember those we lost in the 1988 Nakatomi terrorist attack.

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It’s kinda hard missing Hanukkah, it being 8 days and all, but Jewish Federation LA managed to do it.

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i'm moving away from a two column/week pace in favor of a single extended argument. here is this week's.

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Everyone should read Senator Gillibrand's response to the Archivist www.gillibrand.senate.gov/news/press/r... We "continue to urge President Biden to direct the archivist to certify and publish the ERA and enshrine equality for all in the Constitution". Join us voteequality.us #PublishEquality

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My review of Max Strassfeld’ relatively new book Trans Talmud came out. muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

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Rainbow. Don’t know what it might mean, but for a minute I smiled.

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