1. This is untrue, bordering on slander. There are certainly batei din that have little respect for what potential converts are going through and impose needless delays. However, most take a long time to fully acclimate a potential convert to the Jewish community
2. And I say this as having a long track record opposing certain political developments in Orthodox conversions.
3. Even before these changes, serious batei din would often have conversions be a year so that a potential convert could experience the entire Jewish calendar and become acclimated/integrated in the community
4. You also had "conversion factories" where for $5000 you'd be Jewish in 6 months regardless of where you were or what you're doing.
5. Even in the new system, there are def batei din who care little about the individual converts. There are also those who care very much.

Expected length of time has zero correlation with care or priority.

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26 Aug
1. THREAD: After several recent conversations, I'd like to try articulating some ideas regarding social psychology and Orthodox Judaism. While I've amassed a long bibliography, I'll be omitting most academic citations here in the interests of clarity. 🧵
2. Let's stipulate that identity is important to individuals and that certain aspects of identity will be more important to an individual than others. Also, the ranking of these aspects of identity will vary from person to person.
3. For example, race can be an aspect of identity though more for some than others. The same can be true for one's gender, religion, occupation, or even the identity of being a good, upstanding, moral human being.
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16 Aug
Article behind paywall, but IIRC this was one of the more astute observations re US intervention. Between Syria, Libya, and Iraq, US employed diff of doing nothing, military operation w/o occupation, and military operation w/occupation, and *all* were disasters in their own way.
We can only ever know the results of our actions or inactions. It's really easy to point to the failures and costs of what we've decided to do or not do, but it's impossible to predict what would have happened had another course of action been taken.
As I keep saying, foreign policy is often a choice between, "really, really bad" and "somehow even worse."

Both action and inaction have their own negative consequences and sometimes the best we can hope to do is mitigate those negative consequences to the best of our ability.
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20 Jul
1. A brief thread on the significance of this statement (apologies to those who have heard this before) 🧵:
2. Years ago the Jewish social justice group @uriltzedek initiated a "Tav HaYashar" campaign to certify kosher establishments that met halakhically mandated obligations towards their employers, specifically paying workers on time, paying min wage, and safe working conditions.
3. One criticism in response was that kashrut certifications should only be about the kashrut of the food to the exclusion of everything else lest it confuse the concept of kashrut certification.
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8 Jun
1. Aren't tax returns supposed to be private? And shouldn't the release of personal information register as just a *little* bit concerning?
2. I see we're still having trouble understanding how private equity works.
propublica.org/article/the-se…
2. The "wealth" being discussed isn't a Scrooge McDuck money bin, but the percentage of ownership in companies whose wealth is determined by the market. Which means this "wealth"
1. Is "on paper"
2. Has no theoretical ceiling
3. Isn't a collective resource such that others lost
3. If you don't want Buffet, Bezos, etc. to have so much wealth, simply convince people to sell their stock in the companies they own at a lower value (and ensure others don't start buying it up).
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8 Jun
Opinion 1: @Likud_Party needs to take several seats (metaphorically, not electorally) and its social media team should reevaluate what it's doing and what it's trying to do.

In real democracies, it's possible for longtime leaders to lose elections legitimately. Image
Opinion 2: I don't have a problem complaining that a politician broke a campaign promise. I do have a problem when the complaint comes from a party that does so on the regular.
Opinion 3: All political parties, without exception, would be much better off if they approached political failures and losses by introspectively thinking about why they failed and what they can change to improve in the future rather than whining about the other side.
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6 Jun
100% agreed. In its heyday, Aronson was responsible for publishing some wonderful volumes on Jewish scholarship, several of which I'm fortunate to own.

Other publishers have picked up some slack, but Aronson filled a particular niche that I don't think has been replicated.
One of my favorites is Who's Who in the Talmud. While it has some errors in citations, it's the most comprehensive single-volume I know of documenting the personalities of rabbinic Judaism
amazon.com/Whos-Who-Talmu…
Another favorite is Shoshana Zolty's And All Your Children Shall Be Learned: Women and the Study of the Torah in Jewish Law and History
amazon.com/All-Your-Child…
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