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25 Apr, 3 tweets, 2 min read
1/ This pinned post will serve to be a topical index of my threads in order to make it easier to showcase my writing.

My Torah site: eparsha.com

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2/ A thread of my weekly writing digest threads:

3/ A thread of my Torah writings (which I try to label by my rabbinic name #ReshetKeshet)

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27 Apr
1/ This book, @TimothyDSnyder's "Bloodlands," is the centerpiece of one of my favorite academia stories.

For my doctoral work at Brandeis, I was a TA for Prof. Antony Polonsky's class on the Shoah during the time when "Bloodlands" was published.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Po…
2/ Prof. Polonsky was a skilled lecturer & the first person I'd seen who gave his students a transcript of the class ahead of time. I loved it because it made taking notes incredibly easy: I would just write my comments in the margins when needed.
3/ The transcripts did lead to slacking off by some students - and some former TAs! - who felt they could skip class given that they would use the transcript as a safety net.*

*[See the end of this thread for the bigger lesson I learned from this]
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19 Apr
40.01/ Week 40, April 17-23, 2021, thread begins here.

Week 39 is here:
40.02/ From yesterday.

Note: my teams won all 3 games in nail-biting fashion. Coincidence? Sure. Of course.

40.03/ Also from yesterday:
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15 Apr
1/ A short thread of a funny interchange. It starts with this NYT dive into the ridiculously unlikeable Hizzoner Gov. Cuomo

nytimes.com/2021/04/13/mag…
2/ Maggie H sent it out with this line that I'm bleeping:
“[he was] especially irritated about an event celebrating Sukkot, the Jewish harvest holiday when the faithful gather outdoors beneath temporary shelters of branches & greenery. ‘These people and their f-ing tree houses.’”
3/ That led to this great response by Dr. @PhD_femme (with a 'tree column' added to the famous Jewish holiday chart)

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14 Apr
1/ First of all, this is both correct morally & correct legally. I want to explore for moment why anyone would believe otherwise.

My theory is that it's connected to movies/TV. And that's why it's plausible to say that violent stories lead to violent behavior.
2/ Most of the debate over this question rests on shallow #Literalist-thinking where causes need to be 100% demonstrable, and monocausal, of an effect before causality is established.

It's the wrong question to ask if seeing an action movie makes a person go out and kill.
3/ The question is whether movies (I'm including TV in that term) teach a society that certain behaviors are normal, expected, and/or valid.

If the only exposure people have to an issue is through warped, implausible, fiction, then they'll be incapable of evaluating reality.
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14 Apr
1/ Last week I alluded to the paradox of tolerance and included the internet-famous Karl Popper cartoon. I put alt-text on the image and it took a certain amount of effort, so I want to recreate it openly for use in the future.
2/ [What follows is the alt-text. It didn't include the "2/" numbers]

Famous 3 panel comic entitled "The Paradox of Tolerance by Philosopher Karl Popper (Source: "The Open Society and its Enemies." Karl R. Popper)" by Pictoline.com
3/ 1st panel has 2 people on the left with an anti-Nazi speech balloon & a skinhead says "You want more tolerance? Respect my ideas!"
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11 Apr
39.01/ Week 39 thread, April 10-16, 2021, begins here.

Last week's thread, week 38 - April 4-9, 2021, below.
39.02/ Well, #YomHaatzmaut came early this year!

apnews.com/article/middle…
39.03/ While I'm sorry I missed the #DeGrom work of art over Shabbas, I'm not sorry to miss the heartache in real time of the loss

Games like this could burnish his HOF bid, b/c who doesn't appreciate bravery in the face of impossible odds (#LGM offense)?
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