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1 Sep, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Powerful pro-vaccination PSA today from Orthodox rabbis in New York: "The ribono shel olam [creator of the world] has given us a precious gift. It's called the covid-19 vaccine." "Unvaccinated people die! They die." "What's the shaylah [question] over here? Are we playing games?"
"When we take the vaccine, we're helping everybody, and that's a double mitzvah."
My favorite part of this is the one rabbi who is doing his part in full sermon voice.
In my newsletter today, I wrote up a glossary of all the religious references and Yiddishisms in this video, so those unfamiliar can better appreciate its message: yair.substack.com/p/antisemitic-…
As always, the photo captions are secretly the best part of my newsletter.
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29 Aug
This is false. Anyone who actually watches this angle of the Bennett-Biden meeting in high resolution can see that Biden simply shifts into this position at 12:08, continues moving his fingers, and then immediately responds to Bennett at 12:42.
Not only was Biden with it, if you watch to the end (when he talks right after he's supposedly sleeping), he gets in a clever little dig, saying: "You thank me for ensuring Israel's security, but you should thank Obama" (which Bennett then does). You don't do that in your sleep.
You'd think people would have learned this after Biden won by 7 million votes, but you aren't going to beat Biden by lying to yourself about him and his capabilities. That might help you get retweets from people in your bubble, but it won't actually help you win votes outside it.
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24 Aug
Extremely weird New York Times article about Jews praying at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem that fails to note anywhere that the Temple Mount is *the holiest site in all of Judaism.* The entire story doesn't make sense if you omit that essential fact! nytimes.com/2021/08/24/wor…
Here's something you won't learn from that NYT article: In 2021, Jews are officially forbidden to pray at their faith's holiest site out of fear of violent extremist backlash. That some Jews still do so quietly is not the injustice. The fact that anyone says they shouldn't is.
The article explicitly says that the Temple Mount / Haram al-Sharif is the third-holiest site in Islam. It was a deliberate choice to leave out the fact that it is the holiest site in Judaism. The Times ought to correct and add basic religious context to the article.
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22 Aug
Some good corona news you may not have heard amid all the noise: An Israeli study found that the 3rd vaccine dose they gave to people over 60 was 86% effected against Delta *infection*. In other words, we can supercharge our societal immunity w/ boosters. reuters.com/business/healt…
Israel's experience (early mass vaccination, followed by recent Delta breakthrough cases) suggests that much of what we're seeing now is just prior vaccine doses wearing off, which can be fixed with another dose. We get a new flu shot every year, could do same for this.
"According to [Israeli] Health Ministry figures, the results are very promising. Third-dose recipients appear to be 2.5 times more protected from infection than those who only received the first two doses of the Pfizer vaccine." timesofisrael.com/a-million-isra…
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19 Aug
Some of you know that I've spent the last 9 months creating a video series about antisemitism and how to fight it. But if you're on Facebook, you probably don't. Why? Because FB keeps rejecting our ad clips from the series as "political." So we can't promote it on their platform.
Now, it's not a secret that Facebook permits all sorts of antisemitic and other bigoted content to circulate on its platform. But try to promote videos that expose and rebut that stuff and suddenly it's a problem. We've appealed twice. Denied twice. It's absolutely infuriating.
This is what happens when your social media platform's inept moderators can't distinguish between hate speech and those reporting on and countering hate speech. Any of your could figure out the difference, but apparently it's too difficult for Facebook.
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13 Aug
Half of Israeli Jews are brown Middle Easterners who were persecuted and pushed out of surrounding countries. This is why it's best not to tweet about minority communities and their history and beliefs when you haven't educated yourself about them. Saves a lot of embarrassment.
For those curious about Israel's actual demographics, which are vastly more diverse than "white," here's a good place to start learning about the many Middle Eastern and North African communities that now comprise much of its population: jimena.org/jimena-country…
If you don't know much about a subject, there's absolutely no shame in simply ... not tweeting about it. And as I've said before, if you're a journalist, you have an additional very good reason to not opine outside your expertise:
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11 Aug
This is a trash campaign against a Muslim public servant that is being spearheaded by Republican non-Jews, while Jewish organizations like the American Jewish Committee *personally vouch for the guy* and are telling the Republicans to knock it off. Anti-Muslim, anti-Jewish, yuck.
Actual Jews: "AJC does not normally take positions on nominees [but] accusations around Dilawar Syed’s nomination based on his national origin or involvement in a Muslim advocacy organization are so base and unamerican that AJC is compelled to speak out." ajc.org/news/ajc-state…
If you want to know more about antisemitism than the craven politicians running this smear campaign, and want to make an actual difference fighting it, I have a new video for you:
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