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17 Nov, 7 tweets, 3 min read
Update: Radio Kol Chai, one of the top 2 Charedi radio stations in Israel, just suspended Walder's show. There are rumors his column in Yated Neeman will be suspended as well. It is possible these media outlets are just doing damage control, but this is still unprecedented.
The Charedi-owned department store chain Osher Ad has also removed Walder's books from its stores.

This would likely not be possible without the hard work of the Charedi feminist organization @Nivcharot and feminist activists @Estyshushan, @pninapf, @EfratChocron, @AvigayilKar, and many more I'm forgetting. They are making real change. Follow them!

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Don't get me wrong, there is still plenty of work to be done. The other top Charedi radio station, Kol B'Rama, hosted Walder for an exclusive interview just a day after the allegations surfaced. And only one major rabbi, R. Shmuel Eliyahu, has spoken out.

Charedi women's Facebook groups are shutting down conversation about the allegations and pretending like nothing happened. This is what powerful men do to the thinking of regular people.

I'm also a bit skeptical there would be this kind of response if Walder only had 1 victim. The Charedi world is so vast and interconnected that even 20 victims have familial and communal connections to thousands of people. So I'm hesitant to believe this is about believing women.
More likely, the Charedi media and the rabbinic leadership who signed off on Walder's suspension are concerned about losing the trust of their community. This is what I meant by damage control. And there are still few or no safeguards preventing this from happening again.

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It’s now been more than 3 days since this news broke. And the only people talking about it here are the people who always call out abuse.

I want to be shocked, but I’m used to it already.

A thread on how the institutional structure of the Orthodox community perpetuates abuse:
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1. There’s no check on men in power.
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I gotta say, I did not expect to have an excuse to post this thread, so thanks Rabbi Arthur Schneier’s lucky stars, I guess?

7 Myths About Jewish Astrology, Debunked, a Thread
Myth #1: Astrology is avodah zarah (idolatry).

Fact: Astrology is only avodah zarah if you believe the cosmos control your fate and there is nothing controlling the cosmos. Or, of course, if you pray directly to the sun, moon, stars, or planets.
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Read. this.

And if you think the program you went on (or work for) is immune to this kind of abuse and gaslighting because there’s no creepy guy on staff, think again. The power imbalance on these “future leaders” programs is a feature, not a bug.

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This is why teenagers tend to love grand unified theories and simplistic explanations of things. It allows them to sidestep the complexity of reality, which they generally try to avoid because they don’t need more confusing and dissonant emotions than they already have.
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thesis: life evolved/created to be progressively better at keeping time. the human body is the most advanced chronological device, with a resolution of 330 billion time units/day (# of cell divisions). it has cyclical (skin, menses, sleep) and linear (brain, telomeres) clocks.
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🪨inanimate: stays the same forever
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👥: extremely easy—just ask for bday
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