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6 Oct

now for something different: the OU position on Impossible Pork is ridiculous.The point of a hechsher is to declare whether something is kosher or not, not how someone *feels* about something being kosher or not.

Also, this could very well become a stumbling block leading folk to eat trief, because if they decide to buy Impossible Pork anyway because, at this moment, all its ingredients are kosher, there's no failsafe to inform if the recipe is changed.

Also, this flies in the face of the dictums that everything forbidden in this world has an acceptable counterpart, and also that it is easy to declare something assur, the challenge is to see how something is muttar.

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6 Oct

Actually, let's get back to this whole "Jewface" thing. Like many other terms concerning Jews, what this is really talking about are *white* non-Jews portraying *white* Jewish characters.

Dr. Christina Yang of Grey's Anatomy is Jewish. Sandra Oh isn't. Ato Essandoh isn't Jewish, yet he's played both Dr. Isidore Latham on Chicago Med AND Kwesi Weisberg-Annan on Away. Luke Youngblood isn't Jewish, but Sid from Galavant is.

We can even make a reach for Michael Dorn's Worf on Star Trek: TNG. So where's the dialogue/outrage about "Jewface" in those cases?

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30 Jun

Hey everybody. So, full disclosure, a lot of my commentary is actually 1st draft done.

But I'm wary to share it bc 1-im wary of sharing w/o the context of the rest of my commentary

2-sharing the piece doesnt illustrate the whole, so either ill be villified for what i DID share, or there'll be an expectation that ill be going in a certain direction but im not and thus disappointing folk.

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22 Jun

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hey gang. so im gonna hop a little bit out of my wheelhouse for a bit. lgbtq+ issues, esp as a frum person, are more competently handled by folk like @mike_rabbi, but i feel like i should take a swing on this one. (1/x)

many of us have probably heard about the pride emails sent out by two kosher restaurants recently. a 3rd party pr firm sent out both emails w/o telling either restaurant first. clearly there were communication issues. (2/x)

for example restaurant A had their old logo attached to the email. but the real problem is restaurant B, which sent out a follow up apology for those who mightve been offended by the pride email. (3/x)

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7 Jan

THREAD: A year and two days ago I was a speaker at the No Hate, No Fear rally against antisemitism. And then you have yesterday.

With visible Jews pouring seltzer in people's eyes, Chabad flags flying amongst the chaos, posts and selfies of proudly visible Jews who attended, plus what I'm sure is a decent amount of non-visible Jews partaking as well.

And I'm not sure any of them--not to mention non-Trump Jews--fully realize the implications and magnitude of yesterday's disaster. So here's a few:

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22 Sep 20

To lean in, imagine its 1998. You've spent 23 yrs being a star wars fan. Then the prequels come out, & a new bunch of fans crop up and start calling you "original trilogy" fans. You're like "wtf is this 'original trilogy' deal? It's *just* "star wars". I'm *just* a star wars fan"

"Ok whatever, I guess am an OT star wars fan now then." Then 20 yrs later, the new crop gets mad at Luke's force projection fighting kylo ren. "Its inauthentic and not star wars", they say.

Then all the OT fans reach into their EU source books, from before "OT" was a thing and say "uh, force projection was literally here the whole time"

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