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@JYuter
Sep 10, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Oy, baruch dayan ha'emet. He was a wonderful scholar and gentleman.
The first time I met him was on a Shabbat on the LES. He and his wife found me on the East River promenade where I'd take my Shabbat walks.
He noticed I was Jewish (we didn't know each other) and asked me how far the eruv went down. I said it didn't (not getting into eruv politics, but there was no eruv there at the time).

He then asked, "If someone held of the eruv how for down does it go?"
That's when I knew I was talking to someone unique.

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1. I see @shadihamid's post has gained a lot of attention, and deservedly so considering he touches on important concepts such as citizenship, freedom, and liberalism.
2. The first question to ask when discussing the expectations of assimilation is what constitutes "assimilation." This entails two components: 1. What traits, beliefs, practices, etc. ought to be modified for 2. what sort of social privileges?
3. In the highlight, the point of contention is the "right to be in the United States." There are two suggested dependencies: 1. Convergence with cultural mainstream and 2. Anything.

These are drastically different claims. Image
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Jan 24, 2025
1. Time for a Twitter Shiur!

Today's Topic: God, Pharaoh, and Free Will
2. I first noticed the following back in college, but HT to @ManilanH for inspiring me to write this now and to @AriLamm for his "Why to Read the Bible in Hebrew" series for reasons that will become apparent shortly.

Plus, it's relevant to this week's Torah reading.
@ManilanH @AriLamm 3. In the Biblical narrative of the Exodus, Pharaoh refuses to let the people of Israel leave, God (through Moses) brings a total of 10 plagues to induce Pharaoh to "let my people go."
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Jul 7, 2024
1. I'm skimming these articles and I'm convinced writers for @newrepublic have no sense of irony or self-awareness.

I'm not going to defend Trump. At the same time, these arguments are absurd.
2. First, here's Jason Stanley on "The End of Civic Compassion." Setting aside the laughability of the Before Time being an era of hand-holding, we've got a kicker of a paragraph in the next tweet
newrepublic.com/article/181274…
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3. Painting all of your political opponents as communists is fascist. Painting all your political opponents as fascists is not (and let's not even start with white-supremacy) Image
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Oct 19, 2023
1. Time for a Twitter class / shiur!

Today's topic: "A Jew is a Jew"

Special focus: Does a Jew's beliefs or actions make someone not Jewish?
2. The following is a modified version of my Sacred Slogans version entry on "A Jew is a Jew."

Usual disclaimers apply that this is neither comprehensive nor definitive.
joshyuter.com/2018/09/16/spe…
3. Periodically, one will find people making statements along the lines of, "People who believe/do X" aren't really Jewish.

For one recent example, former Ambassador @DavidM_Friedman Tweeted the following

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Oct 12, 2023
For those insisting on differentiating between Hamas and the Palestinian people as a whole, as recently as March 2023, 58% of those polled by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research supported armed confrontations.
pcpsr.org/en/node/938
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And from June 2022, "59% view armed attacks against Israelis inside Israel as serving the national interest in ending the occupation and 56% support these attacks"
pcpsr.org/en/node/912
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The pertinent question is not if Palestinians support the specific parties of Hamas or Fatah, but if they support murdering Jews.
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Aug 21, 2023
1. Time for a Twitter Shiur!

Today's topic: Religious Coercion in Torah
2. This is an updated version of my earlier shiur from 2012:

I'm revisiting in light of a recent podcast ft @JewishCoffeeH and @RStomel re the current situation in Israel.
joshyuter.com/2012/01/15/pod…
3. The usual disclaimers apply: This isn't intended to be either comprehensive or authoritative and shouldn't be taken as either psak or policy.
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