teaching Religious Studies @UTKnoxville; writing on the cultural politics of Jewish modernity and its study. Alum of @RLSTYale @UnionSeminary @BostonCollege.
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become ungovernable
ALT four tuxedo cats on the kitchen counter, in various modes and stages of shenanigan
imagine believing you will be judged by a just god and putting out this heinous self-justifying delusion about five minutes prior to that
gil anidjar speaks of this (but way better ofc) read.dukeupress.edu/boundary…
In this Israeli sketch, drowning Israeli tourists refuse rescue because the man holding the rope is Muslim.
Will liberal Israeli Jews grab hold of a lifeline thrown by Arab Israelis or sink in the Netanyahu quicksand?
Eisenkot, Liberman, Bennett, Golan: Take the rope for a change government now!
@gadi_eisenkot @AvigdorLiberman @naftalibennett @YairGolan1
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Jeffries must go.
In less than 90 sec, Hakeem Jeffries makes it crystal clear why he should not become the next Speaker of the House.
Asked whether he supports removing provisions that deepen U.S. defense cooperation and intelligence sharing with Israel from the National Defense Authorization Act - an obvious yes! - he refuses to address the question and instead gives a 1990s answer about a mythological two-state solution...
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funniest hadith
Islam does this btw. Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (who was a merchant, not a farmer) once suggested that farmers stop pollinating their fruit trees. Their harvest suffered and he basically told them:
I just gave my personal opinion, y’all should know better since you’re the experts here
ALT This doesn’t diminish Prophet Muhammad’s ﷺ prophethood or the perfection of Islam. He was infallible in delivering God’s revelation, not all-knowing about every worldly matter. Things like farming techniques or what outfit works best for a job interview aren’t part of his prophetic mission. He was human, just like the other prophets, and only knew what God taught him. This is a reminder of his humanity and why we shouldn’t deify him.
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Palestinians are dehumanized to the extent when a child is killed by the army occupying them because he "intended to throw stones at a highway" the world actively looks away
"what is the purpose of this commentary" also great question to ask about the existence of the substack "slow boring"
What is the purpose of this commentary?
We just had an election. Nine seats flipped. Only one of the seat-flippers embraced this idea in the campaign. Why the determination to make people mad at the people who just won?
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I keep seeing people claiming that "grad students only work 5 hours a week" and then clicking on their profile and they're in some tea-leaf reading field like econ or analytic philosophy. You're telling on yourselves! Some of us are doing real things like reading sonnets.
in fairness, in order to ascertain this you would've had to watch *checks notes* literally the 30 seconds of the speech that is commented upon in the clip
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it’s officially damp drizzly november in my soul season for all who celebrate
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A lesson from the Obama “we tortured some folks” years too. When Patrick Leahy proposed a truth commission-style investigation of the Bush years, Arlen Specter responded with “This is not Latin America.”
tapper looks so dumb trying to do "concerned skeptical face" while getting absolutely mustachemogged by the mayor
🚨Mamdani’s message to Jews concerned about election of Israel critics:
“I represent the most Jewish city in the USA, and I know that there are some Jewish New Yorkers, for example, that may have a different set of opinions on Israel and Palestine as I do, and that doesn't mean that I work any less hard to deliver for them across the board.
“I think that's the same truth for anyone who was elected last night.”