johnmnemonic.bsky.social
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Someone clearly loves the place.
The plaque and the lettering on the front of the schul look well maintained.
Appreciate you sharing stuff like this.
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Ok, wow, didn’t realize this was THE Rabbi Wolpe when I first saw your post.
Was just thinking of generic “return” type stuff but like I guess if the shoe fits?
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Abt to jokingly say “you mean like John Wayne?” but, sincerely, on some level folks who talk in this broad way about “Western values” mean, literally, John Wayne type-shit.
They might picture him in a Toga instead of a hat or whatever but genuinely I think it is stuff they saw in the movies 🤷
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I haven’t really had a chance to reflect on it but it sure is really bonkers that Merz said that!
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I mean, obviously it is also (and primarily) domestic branding (“Bibi is NOT democratic by implication of the name”) but one of the benefits of the name must have been to reach progressive blocks in the US both in the diaspora and among Americans more generally?
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After reading Haaretz on this, feels like at the very least Reform institutions should more specifically work with folks like Kariv/Naama Lazimi.
Like, am I crazy? Feels like they called themselves The Democrats because they wanted to invite wrking with Dems in US?
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Sam, just chiming in with everyone else to say this absolutely rocks. Thank you very much for sharing!
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This is very true.
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Feels like this was part of Trump 1 as well, right?
I recall a lot of posting at that time saying that everything was “a distraction” or “not normal”.
From the perspective of 2025 feel like it is safe to say to these folks “yes, events are certainly occurring.”
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Honestly, this one’s on me. I forgot that even on Bluesky the anime avatars have a high chance of being bigots like this.
I shouldn’t have even written a reply to them, let alone one that includes sarcasm.
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In fact, we have such a group - the Nexus Project: nexusproject.us And it's time to start relying on them and not the ADL as experts on antisemitism in the US today, especially given that they have much more representation from academics who actually study the history of antisemitism.
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Indeed. It’s as though the Right wants to unfairly blame the same group for both abstract capital’s failures AND the labor classes reactions to those failures….
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Yeah, agree this is goofy.
Shaul has been visiting at Harvard Div for, I think, the entire post-Oct-7 era and has been outspoken the whole time.
If that visiting title got switched to something more permanent recently this is just a headline that could read:
“Harvard updates website”
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I feel the same way about the semi-regular op-ed pieces in English Haaretz that are like “American Jews need to stand up against the actions of Bibi’s government”
Every time I’m like “who do you think is reading Haaretz (known terrorist 3rd column 🙄) in English that isn’t already with you on this?”
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Terrifying that a bullet fired in 1995 can continue to accumulate so many victims 30 years later.
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I have my differences and have had my ups and downs with Jewish Currents but in general their stuff is really well reported and they have been ringing the bell about this parallel for years:
jewishcurrents.org/the-hindu-na...
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Pointing this out does not minimize antisemitism. Just the opposite.
Trump is using Jews. And he is using our tragedies. All for his own gain. Even as he gives neo-Nazis and their friends prominent positions in his administration.
It is a disgusting use of Jewish pain. And it should be called out.
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The irony in this, of course, being that Claudine Gay essentially answered this same question in this same way setting off the current weaponization of antisemitism by the GOP.
I literally don’t know how much clearer we can make this to folks that these people are not interested in protecting Jews.
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Antisemitism breeds extremism, cruelty, and conspiracy theories. Equating Jewish people with Israel's far-right government inevitably leads to antisemitism.
It leads to innocent people getting hurt, more Jewish organizations being targeted, *and* Netanyahu using fear to gain more control.
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I’m not 12, just incredibly foolhardy 👍
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“America needs to stand in the place where we live. We need to face North and ask ourselves ‘why haven’t we been before?’”
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Wait as in Charles Sanders Pierce?
Is this pragmatism-sky?
I feel silly now and will see myself out 🤠
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You know, hypothetically 🤷
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Relatively new follower so I’ll bite, Peirce who? Sounds interesting!
Sounds relevant for, among other things, keeping a cool head after some horrible lone wolf tragedy causes folks online to investigate “what stable and certainly easily defined identities do the people involved belong to.”
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Actually, no, the more accurate analogy is that these read like The Onions long running “American Voices” series:
theonion.com/opinion/amer...
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The “half dozen” people he interviewed…..
I truly don’t doubt that these folks exist but this reads like “My uncle works in the antisemitism department at Nintendo and he says this isn’t antisemitism.”
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Mostly agree but feel like an omniscient perspective would have lessened the degree to which the multi-POV allows for the titular country to be the ultimate target of the doc’s critical eye.
“People be crazy” is a tale as old time. Haven’t watched in yrs but feel WWC was smartly “USA be crazy.”
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Come to think of it, if you wanted a poster child for the broad crisis of seriousness (over broad theories in search of pop book sales) and science (reproducibility issues etc.) in the field you could do far worse than Steven Pinker.
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Steven Pinker…the guy just seems like a lampoon of academics that escaped from The Simpsons.
I was a psyche major under grad and he was legit respected within his narrow field at the time but boy-howdy has he been outside of his narrow field for well over a decade at this point.