Re intermarriage:
American non-Orthodox Judaism will be around for a long time the gross numbers I think have been more or less unchanged since the '50s
But the Israeli and Orthodox worlds will continue to swallow up more and more of a monopoly on what it means to be Jewish ...
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In high school someone was like, What movie are we seeing?
Me: Just Go With It
Him: Okay but what movie are we seeing
Me: Just Go With It
Him: But really what movie are we seeing
Me: Adam Sandler's Just Go With It
Completely real exchange I had on the escalator at Cineplex:
Stranger: You here for the advance screening of Ebenezer?
Me: No - You Can See Everything
Him: (after an awkward pause) Yeah haha itās a big theater. So youāre here to see something else huh?
Reminds me of a certain classic comedy sketchā¦
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In non-Orthodox synagogues I think "bnai mitzvah" and "b mitzvah" are standard ways to say it now if you're talking about a mixed-gender group
I read it as being a nonbinary word for bar mitzvah
But uh, you guys can do with the rest of the content here what you will. I'm too tired for this today
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I read it as being a nonbinary word for bar mitzvah
But uh, you guys can do with the rest of the content here what you will. I'm too tired for this today
I learned embarrassingly recently the original reason for banning pictures of Muhammad was to guard against avodah zarah, which is actually super based
But from what I can tell fatwas around modern controversies are almost exclusively concerned with disrespect
Many Muslims find any visual depiction of Mohammed deeply offensive.
Is it ok for a humor magazine to depict him in a very disrespectful cartoon? (In the toilet, holding a bomb, etc?)
Is the same ok for Charlie Kirk? (Holding a bible with a bullet hole, etc)
84%Ok to depict both
2%Avoid Mohammed/Ok Kirk
6%Ok Mohammed/Avoid Kirk
8%Avoid depicting both
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So many bad takes on here can be solved by: You seem to be putting Jewishness in the same category as Christianity and Islam, which doesn't work bc we're older than the concept of religion, which itself had to be invented by Christianity to define itself against Jewishness
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Need Ross Douthat to meet his Jewish-woman counterpart
I understand actual religious people perfectly! If you really believe in Christianity, not as something you say to be socially acceptable, but you think there will be God on the throne (Douthat specifically mentioned a throne) casting judgment, POTUS' answer IS horrifying.
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It's crazy that we hardly know any of the words Jesus said in his original language. Like no one can even claim to know
(wondering what Jesus might have actually said when he's recorded as calling everyone hypocrites left and right) teapaw.org/CodyFitz96/status/2119ā¦
I think it was Sam Harris who said it's good that previous presidents were hypocrites bc it meant they had the pretense of a standard of decency to aspire to, whereas with Trump there's no standard at all
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I donāt even need to hear the defense bc I know for a fact no American has ever heard a Robbie Williams song
Robbie Williams defends Olivia Rodrigo after she was accused of copying his song āCandyā with ātake me home (4 christmas)ā:
āArtists deserve to be protected. But thereās a difference between protecting your work and treating every vaguely familiar sequence of notes as a winning lottery ticket. It sounds to me as though she may have accidentally stumbled across a musical echo of mine in one of her new songs. And do you know what? I couldnāt care less. I donāt know whether thereās technically a publishing issue, a copyright issue, or no issue whatsoever. And I donāt want to know. Iām not going after her. Because I think at some point, some f**king sanity has to prevail [ā¦] We all stand on the shoulders of people who came before us. Sometimes consciously. Sometimes without even knowing it. Thatās how music works. If we keep punishing people for accidentally arriving somewhere somebody else has already been, eventually weāre going to frighten the creativity out of everyone.ā
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This isnāt an area I know a ton about so this was an interesting starting point for me open.spotify.com/episode/4Xyā¦
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I think it was Sam Harris who said it's good that previous presidents were hypocrites bc it meant they had the pretense of a standard of decency to aspire to, whereas with Trump there's no standard at all
