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He/his. PhD social scientist & Orthodox (former) pulpit Rabbi. We're all in this together. I'm also on yksb. #BringThemHome #Steelers #Mets
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Dec 8 6 tweets 2 min read
230.01/ Week two-hundred and thirty, December 7-13, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 229 below 230.02/ The Assad regime collapsing over Shabbas #Vayetze seems especially appropriate. I had long compared Lavan to Assad, the urbane facade hiding real cruelty and depravity. I celebrate the toppling of a murderous regime and the liberation of Saydnaya prison.
Dec 1 5 tweets 2 min read
229.01/ Week two-hundred and twenty-nine, November 30-December 6, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 228 below. 229.02/ #MotzeiShabbatMovieNight continues with Argo (2012), the rare winner of a best picture Oscar that's also re-watchable.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argo_(201…
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.…
imdb.com/title/tt102464…
Nov 23 7 tweets 3 min read
228.01/ Week two-hundred and twenty-eight, November 23-29, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 227 below. 228.02/ Fundamentally, a plurality want a minority to do all the work but get no reward while they do very little work & get all the reward. The only system that will get close to that - liberal Democracy - gives too much to people the plurality hates, so they vote for fantasies.
Nov 16 9 tweets 3 min read
227.01/ Week two-hundred and twenty-seven, November 16-22, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 226 below. 227.02/ #ChochmatNashim for #ChayeiSara 5784 2023 (LAST YEAR) @ChochmatNashim.
Downloadable PDF with working links to Divrei Torah by Orthodox women scholars. 19 pages. #ChayaSara #ChayeiSarah

drive.google.com/file/d/1FKX-z_…
Nov 9 22 tweets 6 min read
226.01/ Week two-hundred and twenty-six, November 9-15, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 225 below. 226.02/ Yup. Still here on Twitter. Gonna keep the fight and keep the faith. And also... no regrets. #HarrisWalz2024 Picture of 2 items: on the right is the volunteer badge my family wore when canvassing in PA. On the left is the door-knob flier we would put on unresponsive houses.
Nov 3 44 tweets 15 min read
225.01/ Week two-hundred and twenty-five, November 2-8, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 224 below. 225.02/ Finally dropped off our ballots this morning & took a selfie. A fun thing then happened: a young dad carrying a baby arrived after us & he said that it was his first time voting after becoming a citizen! So I insisted on taking a photo of him (with his camera). USA! USA!
Oct 27 29 tweets 8 min read
224.01/ Week two-hundred and twenty-four, October 26-November 1, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 223 below. 224.02/ There's sticker shock and then there's "standing on the bathroom scale after 3 three-day yuntifs and 2 major fasts over 3 weeks" sticker shock.
Oct 20 6 tweets 2 min read
223.01/ Week two-hundred and twenty-three, October 19-23, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 222 below. 223.02/ Downside of "October is the Best Sports Month" - mixed blessing really - is that at 8pm tonight 3 of my teams will be on at the same time. NYMets facing elimination, #LIGHTITUPNYL in the last game of the finals, and the Steelers on SNF.
Oct 14 7 tweets 2 min read
222.01/ Week two-hundred and twenty-two, October 12-16, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 221 below 222.02/ #ChochmatNashim for #Sukkot 5784 2023 (LAST YEAR) @ChochmatNashim.

Downloadable PDF with Divrei Torah by Orthodox women scholars on the holiday & other weekly topics. 15 pages.
drive.google.com/file/d/154AH4_…
Oct 6 5 tweets 2 min read
221.01/ Week two-hundred and twenty-one, October 5-11, 2024 thread begins here.

Week 220 below. #HappyNewYear #ShanahTovah 5785 221.02/ #ChochmatNashim for #YomKippur 2023 5784 (LAST YEAR) @ChochmatNashim

Downloadable PDF with working links to Divrei Torah by Orthodox women scholars on the holiday. 24 pages.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Rw-PaB…
Sep 29 8 tweets 3 min read
220.01/ Week two-hundred and twenty, September 28-October 2, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 219 below. 220.02/ Thank God, today my family was able to receive our #BivalentBooster shot, for COVID19 and the flu. I'm so grateful to live in a country which has easy and plentiful access to life-saving medicine.

Sep 22 9 tweets 3 min read
219.01/ Week two-hundred and nineteen, September 21-27, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 218 below (I misnumbered some last week; that's going to cause trouble). 219.02/ Absolutely! This is just science. #LGM
Sep 17 10 tweets 3 min read
218.01/ Week two-hundred and eighteen, September 14-20, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 217 below. 218.02/ #ChochmatNashim for #KiTavo 5783 (LAST YEAR) @ChochmatNashim.

Downloadable PDF with working links of Divrei Torah by Orthodox women scholars on the parsha and other topics of the week. 12 pages.
drive.google.com/file/d/1zjmFJj…
Sep 13 4 tweets 1 min read
217.01/ Week two-hundred and seventeen, September 7-13, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 216 below 217.02/ Due to a combination of having a maddening schedule over the past few weeks and having Twitter owned and run horribly by the Divorced Incel King, it's been very hard to write anything.
Aug 11 9 tweets 3 min read
213.01/ Week two-hundred and thirteen, August 10-16, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 212 below. 213.02/ Henceforth, I am calling the Times "USA Today for Rich People" and when asked why, I will cite @wychstreet and this decision.

Aug 4 35 tweets 11 min read
212.01/ Week two-hundred and twelve, August 3-9, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 211 below. 212.02/ #ChochmatNashim for #Devarim and #TishaBeAv 5783 (LAST YEAR). @ChochmatNashim

Downloadable pdf with working links of Divrei Torah by Orthodox women scholars on the parsha and other topics of the week. 22 pages.
drive.google.com/file/d/1TH6ApN…
Jul 28 25 tweets 8 min read
211.01/ Week two-hundred and eleven, July 27-August 2, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 210 below. 211.02/ It would behoove this law prof. to learn about the Jewish law concept of "chazakah" - the legal presumption for what a person means/intends. So, um, Trump (ym'sh) fomented an armed insurrection. He wants to end Democracy.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chazakah
Jul 21 24 tweets 7 min read
210.01/ Week two-hundred and ten, July 20-26, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 209 below. 210.02/ 1. Thank you Pres. Biden for your incredible job as president. I'm sorry you're not running again

2. I support VP Harris with all my might to be president in 2024. And I hope all freedom loving Americans will do the same.
Jul 14 10 tweets 3 min read
209.01/ Week two-hundred and nine, July 13-19, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 208 below. 209.02/ Following the assassination attempt on TFG yesterday - an act I condemn; ballots not bullets - the reaction by news agencies has been unhinged. But I'm singling out The Daily Beast and Politico who are lionizing TFG using very disturbing rhetoric. I've had to unfollow.
Jul 8 8 tweets 2 min read
208.01/ Week two-hundred and eight, July 6-12, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 207 below. 208.02/ Demographically, I should be part of the "elite" but the past two weeks showed me that I'm a solid true-blue member of the Democratic "base" because I'm standing by Biden-Harris & have a white-hot rage against the media (& the cowards in my party) trying to take us down.
Jun 30 19 tweets 5 min read
207.01/ Week two-hundred and seven, June 29-July 5, 2024 begins here.

Week 206 below. 207.02/ I didn't see the debate because I can't stand listening to Trump (ym'sh). The bizarre meltdown by the MSM calling for Biden to drop out is not only disgusting but reignited the normie-Democrats' blazing anger at the MSM goofs that brought us "But Her Emails" in 2016.