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Professor, Department of Religion, Syracuse University. Modern and Contemporary Jewish Thought & Culture. Blogs at jewishphilosophyplace.com
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Holy shit! You’ve got to see this town hall. Republicans are starting to get torn apart by their own constituents. Rep. Rich McCormick: “You don’t think I’m going to stand up for you?” Woman in the crowd: “You need to stand up.” Another woman: “Don’t bend over.” 🔥

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About the larger politics of antipathy and posting this thinking about the murder of the Bibas children butchered by demons and abandoned by their government: jewishphilosophyplace.com/2025/02/21/a...

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Woke up this morning stunned at the terrible news that the Bibas children were butchered by Hamas/Jihadi terrorists. I found myself wishing they had been killed in an Israeli airstrike, and am going to sit with this thought for a long time

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spent good part of the day watching Channel 12, which showed relatively few clips of the horror show staged by Hamas over the dead bodies of a mother, her children, and a grandfather. The coverage focused on grief in Israel, not rage and calls for revenge

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A horrible hole in a people's heart filled by what that comes after?

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As Trump Turns Toward Russia and Against Ukraine, Republicans Are Mum www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

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We are literally racing against the clock to see if our baby can get fully vaccinated before RFK and his anti-vaccine death cult stop us. As far as I’m concerned, anyone who voted for this—that means Trump voters or voters for any of the GOP senators who confirmed RFK—tried to murder my baby.

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They're going to gut Social Security

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Politically, Ossoff's symbolic vote was a disaster, and this is where we are, at real risk.

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“Don’t buy swasticars” Tesla showroom Manhattan #kickmuskoutofthewhitehouse

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Does Vice President Vance really think that supporting far-right parties in Europe is appropriate after visiting a concentration camp? Where are the Jewish voices calling on him to stop this hypocrisy?

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[American Nazi Party] Nine days before German election, U.S. Vice President JD Vance meets far-right leader of AfD www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...

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I'm told the noise at the end was three people clapping. They were all in Vance's entourage. The US is now both pariah and pitiful on the international stage.

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A brutal triadic form: Netanyahu-Hamas-Trump jewishphilosophyplace.com/2025/02/10/n...

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Trump and Netanyahu are going to kill the hostages www.timesofisrael.com/back-from-dc... via @timesofisrael

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Going back to my intellectual roots to make sense of this theopolitical hour: Dostoyevsky's epigraph to Demons: jewishphilosophyplace.com/2025/02/09/d...

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🇮🇱 PM, defense ministers were ‘explicitly’ told months ago about starvation of hostages www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

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What they're not saying: not a word of revenge. All the families of the Israel hostages returned today saying same thing in interviews: bring them all home now

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The damage of Trump’s Gaza plan has already been done - https://www.972mag.com/trump-gaza-damage-israeli-society/

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Demons at loose in the system jewishphilosophyplace.com/2025/02/07/d...

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world run by demons: jewishphilosophyplace.com/2025/02/06/d...

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Trump just trolled the Jewish people. Is there any self-awareness that there was never a "Trump Plan." Mar-a-Gaza was just smoke-and-mirror fantasy tailor-made for them that went puff the next morning?

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Michael Kazin on McKinley, T. Roosevelt, and the future of New Deal politics in the wake of Trump and against U.S. oligarchy: politi.co/3Q5HTrY via @politico

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"Unlike Smotrich's ungrounded visions, Qatar's approach is methodical and rooted in long-term strategy, and it is devoting significant resources to ensure the success of its Gaza project" www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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In defense of immigrants, mainline Jewish organizations come out against Trump deportations www.jpost.com/american-pol...

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profile of kibbutz nir oz: www.timesofisrael.com/israel-fiddl... via @timesofisrael

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a few quick thoughts on this year's Jewish Book Council winners and the place of Jewish books and cultural resilience in the face of harsh social-political winds in Israel and the U.S. today jewishphilosophyplace.com/2025/01/22/l...

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settler violence and Jewish terror in occupied West Bank fueled by Kahanist government www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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enough is enough, no? ttps://www.bendthearc.us/adl_elon_musk_nazi_salute?recruiter_id=85

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Ex-Proud Boys Leader, Pardoned by Trump, Helped Initiate Capitol Riot www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/n...

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Elon Musk Ignites Online Speculation. Who care if it was really a Nazi salute or not? It was a Nazi salute www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/u...

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בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְהוָֹה אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם מַתִּיר אֲסוּרִים

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when all hostages home and this terrible war ends, Gaza is a Hamas problem and Hamas a Gaza problem

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for students, colleagues, and interested parties: i'm posting all together links and a rough guide to 4 working definitions of anti-Semitism addressing the question of anti-Zionism, including one from the AJS that has not gotten the attention it deserves jewishphilosophyplace.com/2025/01/17/a...

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back to work: jewishphilosophyplace.com/2025/01/16/w...

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the headline and reporting @timesofisrael obfuscates the political fact that the right-wing groups protest hostage deal are predominantly religious Zionist. www.timesofisrael.com/right-wing-g...

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