#Orthodox

1/May 12, 2020, is when about 1/2 million Orthodox Jews, said enough is enough. It was Lag Baomer, the day we celebrate Rav Shimon bar Yochai (Rashbi).It's been said on
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Thread.Recently, Harsimrat Kaur @HarsimratBadal_ claimed in parliament that Guru Tegh Bahadur protected the religion of Hindus despite of being a Non-Hindu. And Hindus owe a huge favor to others.In this
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The orthodox Jewish community is amazing at being there for one another for “kosher” struggles — having a baby? You can bet you’re getting meals. Death in the family? House
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The Hagia Sophia has been in the news lately. What is Hagia Sophia and why is it significant? Hagia Sophia (Greek), known in Turkish as Ayasofya, in Latin as Sancta
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what are the coolest buildings in your state? my votes for colorado: bent's fort, cliff palace, the state capitol, and union station modernist weirdness: charles deaton's wonderfully goofy bank in
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Israel is now first in the world for daily cases of covid19 per capita.How the hell did we get here? A cautionary tale in this long thread >>> Theoretically, Israel
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When Hindus say that Sikhs are a Hindu panth, they mean it with absolutely no political agenda partly because they have no political agenda in the first place. But more
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Been going back into the archives of events NTers have done (most recently, @TheRickWilson and @davidfrum, and let me tell you, it's making me even more angry to know there
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“Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth” was published by @Harvard_Press in 2020 and yesterday it won the National @JewishBook Award. Here is a thread on how the
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1/ I've watched (part of) Navalny's "Putin's Palace" exposé, and I suggest you do same. (It is subtitled.) It's half psychological profile/biography and half @60Minutes style follow the money report,
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What Africans Commonly Overlook about #Ethiopia Contrary to popular perception, there is not one ‘Ethiopian’ Language, Culture, Religion or History. #Ethiopia is home to a multiplicity of peoples & cultures
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So here's a little thread about a rabbit hole I went down a few years ago as I was attempting to figure out a history of various coffee preparation methods
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I’m not wired like everyone I have interacted with on this platform.I’m not very thick skinned and don’t particularly enjoy controversy—especially among people I truly believe are my forever-family.So, why
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It's saturday! Which means it's time for my #ItalianThread. Today, I want to talk about a... very curious geopolitical anomaly to be found in Sicily. I'm talking about the PIANA
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THREAD: Yekatit 12 On 19 February 1937 Italian forces & Italian civilians began a three day campaign of killings in Addis Ababa which left nearly 30,000 Ethiopians dead.Over the next
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The issue conservatives have is not what the left is doing to themselves, but what they're imposing onto us.Progressive policies force compliance, they don't unite or persuade or offer.They use
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