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He/his. PhD social scientist & Orthodox Rabbi. We're all in this together. #BlackLivesMatter #Steelers #Mets #Resist
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Sep 18 13 tweets 5 min read
166.01/ Week one-hundred and sixty-six, September 17-22, 2023, thread begins here.

Week 165 below. 166.02/ re: #FireCanada #HereWeGo

(BTW, I think he should go, too, but Steelers' OCs are like GOP presidents, they keep getting unimaginably worse, that I shudder who'll be next).

Sep 12 6 tweets 2 min read
165.01/ Week one-hundred and sixty-five, September 9-15, 2023, thread begins here.

Week 164 below. 165.02/ In honor of the upcoming High Holidays, here's one of the best humor songs about cantorial music ever, "Hineni" by the Rechnitzer Rejects:


And my crop of just the song:
drive.google.com/file/d/1EYrMsh…
Sep 8 5 tweets 2 min read
164.01/ Week one-hundred and sixty-four, September 2-8, 2023 thread begins here.

Week 163 below.

(Twitter is so unwieldy & fakakt that I'm finding it harder to write & interact with it, hence why I didn't even realize I didn't start this until now). 164.02/ #ChochmatNashim thread for #Nitzavim 5782 & the first #Vayelech of 5783 (this year has two) which was the first time I converted the thread into a PDF. @ChochmatNashim. #Vayeilech #Vayelekh.

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drive.google.com/file/d/1FYsFMI…
Aug 27 7 tweets 2 min read
163.01/ Week one-hundred and sixty-three, August 26-September 1, 2023 thread begins here.

Week 162 below. 163.02/ Shavua tov. I checked the Met game Motzei Shabbas and see Carrasco has yet again had a terrible outing. He's been through a lot, medically, but it's getting embarrassing. (His nickname is "cookie" and I found this great gif that illustrates his athletic results)
Aug 21 9 tweets 3 min read
162.01/ Week one-hundred and sixty-two, August 19-25, 2023, thread begins here.

Week 161 below. 162.02/ Reposting these links again because one of my kids needed a refresher for a Bugs Bunny cartoon and remarkably this trove is still online.
Aug 13 5 tweets 2 min read
161.01/ Week one-hundred and sixty-one, August 12-18, 2023, thread begins here.

Week 160 below. 161.02/ #ChochmatNashim thread for #Shoftim 5782 (last year) @ChochmatNashim. BE"H I will send out the PDF for this year tomorrow.

Aug 6 7 tweets 2 min read
160.01/ Week one-hundred and sixty, August 5-11, 2023, thread begins here.

Week 159 below. 160.02/ #ChochmatNashim thread for #Reeh 5782. @ChochmatNashim
Jul 30 11 tweets 4 min read
159.01/ Week one-hundred and fifty-nine, July 29-August 4, 2023, thread begins here.

Week 158 below. 159.02/ #ChochmatNashim for #Ekev 5782 thread from last year. @ChochmatNashim

Jul 23 13 tweets 4 min read
158.01/ Week one-hundred and fifty-eight, July 22-28, 2023, thread begins here.

Week 157 below. 158.02/ My daughter asked me about the stories of demons in the Talmud whether they were real or not (note: today's Daf has the famous story of Shlomo & Ashmodai). It's a long answer but I mentioned that some natural phenomena really appear demonic. See:
Jul 17 6 tweets 2 min read
157.01/ Week one-hundred and fifty-seven, July 15-21, 2023, thread begins here.

Week 156 below.

(Starting late because this website is cracking at the seams) 157.02/ #ChochmatNashim for #Matot #Masei 5783. @ChochmatNashim.

Downloadable PDF with working links of Divrei Torah from Orthodox women scholars on the parsha and other weekly topics.
drive.google.com/file/d/1ieCXsT…
Jul 9 5 tweets 1 min read
156.01/ Week one-hundred and fifty-six, July 8-14, 2023, thread begins here.

Week 155 below. 156.02/ Today's daf in #dafyomi is Gittin 55, the beginning of the Kamtza/Bar Kamtza story. [Plays spooky music]
Jul 2 12 tweets 4 min read
155.01/ Week one-hundred and fifty-five, July 1-7, 2023, thread begins here.

Week 154 below. 155.02/ #ChochmatNashim for #Chukat and #Balak 5783. @ChochmatNashim

Downloadable PDF with working links to shiurim by Orthodox women scholars on parshat ha-shavua and other topics of the week.

drive.google.com/file/d/1veO0ip…
Jun 26 4 tweets 1 min read
153D.01/ The utter incompetents running Twitter have bolloxed the way threads work and week 153 was chopped up in the unrolling process. I'm going to repost the whole thing in an attempt to salvage what I wrote. These will be indicated by the "D" designation. 153D.05/ So far the threading is still broken. It's another example of some unqualified "owner" not understanding his product, business and (in many ways) the world that they share with others. A pathetic and tragic waste.
Jun 25 6 tweets 2 min read
Week one-hundred and fifty-four, June 24-30, 2023, thread begins here.

Week 153 below. 154.02/ Finally took the kids to #SpiderVerse They said they wanted to see it as soon as possible so to avoid spoilers. They worked hard at that and the ending caught them enough by surprise that I'd say mission accomplished. (PS good film, worth seeing in the theater)
Jun 18 10 tweets 2 min read
153.01/ Week one-hundred and fifty-three, June 17-23, 2023, thread begins here.

Week 152 below. 153.04/ The number of goofy mistakes being made - especially by the #Mets - in this afternoon's game defies fiction. Who would have the imagination to craft such boneheaded mistakes? (See the 1st inning bases loaded double-play to the latest error by Walker) #NYMvHOU #LGM
Jun 11 19 tweets 9 min read
152.01/ Week one-hundred and fifty-two, June 10-16, 2023, thread begins here.

Week 151 below. 152.02/ We're off to a wedding (yay!) as a whole family (yay!) and when we ask, globally, if everyone is ready, I think about this scene:
Jun 4 21 tweets 8 min read
151.01/ Week one-hundred and fifty-one, June 3-9, 2023, thread begins here.

Week 150 below. 151.02/ This is the way
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May 28 26 tweets 12 min read
150.01/ Week one-hundred and fifty, May 27-June 2, 2023 thread begins here.

Week 149 (ish) below. 150.02/ I'm finally back into Twitter on my laptop. It's been weeks, but I was able to navigate the hurdles. Even though it's official "week 151", I'll use the remainders of this truncated thread to log my posts from weeks 149-150 and then start 151. Whew.
May 14 11 tweets 6 min read
148.01/ Week one-hundred and forty-eight, May 13-19, 2023 thread begins here.

Week 147 below. 148.02/ Informative thread, re: meme dog-whistles and methodology.
May 7 5 tweets 3 min read
147.01/ Week one-hundred and forty-seven, May 6-12, 2023, thread begins here.

Week 146 below. 147.02/ Darn right!
Apr 30 8 tweets 4 min read
146.01/ Week one-hundred and forty-six, April 29-May 5, 2023, thread begins here.

Week 145 below. 146.02/ "The Negotiator (1998)"

If you can get past the Spacey problem, it's insane how good this movie is. Seriously.
#MotzeiShabbatMovieNight
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