#Judaism

The claim that prior to recognizing Israel, PLO advocated 'one state for all' is simply false. In fact, PLO advocated an Arab state and effective ethnic cleansing of 90+ percent
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As someone writing a book on forgetting in post-70 reception of 2nd Temple Judaism, I'm finding recent debates about "real" meaning of Hanukkah really fascinating--so a thread of some preliminary
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On this day in 1922, the Ottoman Sultanate was abolished after ruling for 600 years. At its peak, it included what is now Bulgaria, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel,
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I've spent today toggling between being baffled and being angry - reading post after post from anti-maskers (HOW IS THIS A THING) and science-deniers, folks who follow 45 wherever he
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A few thoughts on the labour anti-Semitism hellscape. I’m a white South African Jew who has been in the UK for 3 years but I’ve been terrified to weigh on
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Thread on why Rainer is full of shit, on the fall in living standards, and how most elements of the Holocaust were independent of capitalism—please read to the end for
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OK, this here is a thread on Jewish law. 1/xFor everybody, but I'll start with a question for my Christian friends: If someone was like, hey, I have a Diet
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when you think about the holocaust who do you think carried out the atrocities? it wasn't soldiers, they were fighting actual battles. so who was rounding up people and guarding
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actual feminist icons in tanach / a thread(because there are LOTS of women in tanach that deserve to be stanned) EVE/CHAVAstarting right at the beginning. eve gets a bad rap
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1/The Prophet Muḥammad died in AD 632. The question of his succession, the right to inherit the mantle of leadership, was an epochal moment in early Islam which led to
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Hello Tweeps! It seems quite a few of you are new followers these days. Welcome! Since we’re new to each other, here’s some stuff to know about me. A thread:1.I
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Since I'm salty about journalists ignorance of their own field I'm going to start a tweet thread about journalism history books that I have read and will update as I
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Notice how these ancient Sumerian statues (possibly gods and goddesses) all have their hands crossed over their chests in form of worship, much like the Islamic ritual act of prayer,
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20 years ago today, I participated as a member of the Israeli delegation to the Camp David Summit. Holding the foreign policy portfolio in the Prime Minister's Office, I arrived
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What does it mean to be religious? A thread.There are a lot of bad religious actors in the world. You know who I’m talking about: The violent homophobic 48 year
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Thinking about how, in Judaism, redeeming captives is considered a "great mitzvah," something that takes precedence over even supporting the poor, and the cash bail system. 1/x thread Maimonides writes
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