When people I meet learn that I am a journalist, a vocal minority regale me with hot takes on how journalists are the worst people and journalism is the worst profession. We're liars, we're lazy, writing from ignorance and propagating inaccuracies. (1) Yesterday @RachelBethGross and others reached out to share that the headline on an article I wrote for JTA did not accurately reflect the diversity of the scholars in the field and in attendance at #AJS21. (2)

https://twitter.com/RachelBethGross/status/1473296902280171526

#realtalkwithyou: I got into it today with someone about whether a Jewish politician's observance or stance on Israel makes them a "bad" Jew. tldr, Torah-educated Jews giving secular people a hard time should consider the multiple examples in the Talmud, mainstream and whacky, of people who were not just lax about Judaism but deep into some very not-kosher stuff and it is clear that their repentance was accepted.