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Rabbi Zvi Solomons 🕎

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22 Dec

There is a daft idea going around beloved of antisemites that Israel is an Apartheid State.

Let’s look at this on a factual basis.

Here you have a beach in Apartheid South Africa. These signs are typical.

Apartheid separated people by race.
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Of course this doesn’t happen in israel because it’s not an Apartheid State. Nobody bans Arabs from the beach, they’re citizens.

Israel is quite content even to have burkini clad women on the beaches.

These are normal Israeli scenes. 2/14

Let’s look elsewhere. Perhaps there are limits or quotas on who is able to be a doctor, who can treat whom, if Israel really is an apartheid state. That’s what Russia did to Jews. What Iran does.
Quotas.
Here in South Africa there were Black only clinics and hospitals. 3/14

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Rabbi Zvi Solomons 🕎

@RabbiZvi

30 Jun

@LSJS_Hendon

The weird argument over #womenrabbis in Orthodoxy, particularly @LSJS_Hendon.
They knew Lindsey T-G was studying for three years. If yeshivat Maharat were treif, they couldn’t have allowed her to continue to teach.
She taught there!
They knew she was learning to be a rabba…

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If that course of study were prohibited, they should have sacked her there and then. They didn’t.
This 👆🏼 indicates that studying at Yeshivat Maharat for the rabbinate is not prohibited.
They sacked Lindsey TG for passing semicha exam.
They disagree only w the qualification.
2/7

Yet they have their own qualifications themselves, for women.

Are they saying that they disagree w the Hashkafa (outlook) of Yeshivat Maharat?

Or the title?

Is it the status?

If a learned woman can pasken on one aspect of halacha, which aspect can she •not•?

Why?
3/7

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Rabbi Zvi Solomons 🕎

@RabbiZvi

14 Apr

Today is the יום הזכרון, Memorial Day for israelis, commemorating the war dead and those murdered in pogroms and terror attacks.

23,928 soldiers have died since Independence in 1948.

Israel is still at war with 3 of the original belligerents.

idf.il/en/minisites/o…

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A siren sounds at 8 the day before.

Originally this day coincided w Independence Day (tomorrow) but the bereaved families wanted to separate the mourning from the joy of freedom.

11am a siren stops all traffic for 2 minutes silence.

2/4

Independence only came about through great sacrifice; the approximately 4,000 military dead of the 1948 war were a huge sacrifice. That war is given less prominence than more recent conflicts.

I was lucky know Maurice Mann, who flew in the early IAF.
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Rabbi Zvi Solomons 🕎

@RabbiZvi

26 Jan

@Eve_Barlow

Thread, sparked by @Eve_Barlow👇🏼

I feel ambivalent about HMD.

On the one hand it allows us to talk about Shoah w non-Jews, as well as other evil in the works.

On the other, it focusses on this exceptionally evil period in our history, gives impression that Jews = victims 1/7

https://twitter.com/eve_barlow/status/1354124756165922816

The hard left define antisemitism as what happened in the Holocaust, comfortably ignoring the lesser firms of prejudice that infest their, and every extreme ideology.

Holocaust may be jackboots marching down the street kicking in our heads; antisemitism can be a look. 😯 2/7

As a rabbi I find the emphasis on the evil done to Jews excites irrational jealousy (“why do you have to be the victim?!”) as well as copycat behaviour.
It’s a negative feedback for some Jews too, who hide in fear because of what happened.
So let’s consider a middle way:
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Rabbi Zvi Solomons 🕎

@RabbiZvi

17 Jan

This is a mezuzah. You’ll see it on the doorposts of Jewish homes. It is a small box - this in our inner hall - with a scroll inside it. Deuteronomy mandates to write its words “on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates”.
Two of the three sections of the Shema.
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Here is an example of what we find inside.
Written on parchment, using a quill, these words are a •creed• for Jews. They detail the unity of God, love of God, education, reward and punishment, etc.
It’s in all doors except toilets 🤢 and bathrooms (😱nudity).

2/4

Now we see the upshot of the #LabourAntisemitism fiasco.

Jews are scared to show we’re Jewish.

Traditional Jews will normally put a mezuzah outside their front door, even if they’re not very religious.

I’ve noticed this in my own community. 3/4
theguardian.com/news/2021/jan/…

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Rabbi Zvi Solomons 🕎

@RabbiZvi

14 Jan

To avoid doubt:

This photographed tweet is not true.

juedische-allgemeine.de/politik/nazi-r…

The article says •what I said•: the law does NOT require Jews to add to their names, but they have not filleted out the Nazi era terms. Terms such as Reichs Minister are still in this law.

In fact the text of this article reads as translated below.

The Reich (Jews are all too familiar w this) was the Nazi term for the country. It has deeply painful resonances.

The Federal law does not say Jews add an extra “typical” name on changing names. That’s untrue.

Highly damaging to pretend/fabricate Holocaust related information. It’s what our enemies do to try to erase history.

I consider those who deliberately falsify history to enhance “their” story = Holocaist falsifiers. To see it in a German speaker 😱.

A wise person removes lies.

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