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Sep 21 • 13 tweets • 8 min read
inner.org/masters-of-nam…
“The Ba'al Shem Tov is the master of the goodly Name, the Name of God Tov (טוב), which means "good" and whose gematria is 17. This is the Name alluded to in the very first verse of the Torah.”

5785 - A Peek at the Upcoming Year: youtube.com/live/M_DQvbP_i… x.com/drandelson/sta… chabad.org/kabbalah/artic…
“Speech has also been used to depict the concept of the feminine malchut. Through speech, Creation came into being… "Malchut, that is the Mouth and we call it the Oral Torah."”

5785 Predictions: Year of Kindness תשפ״ה: youtu.be/DrO-fUrJB3Q?si… x.com/drandelson/sta…
Jul 26 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
The David Rubenstein Show - Jerome Powell: youtu.be/9L_go1YvgqI?si… x.com/drandelson/sta…
Jul 24 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
israeltoday.co.il/read/lubavitch…
“About 30 years ago, the late Lubavitcher Rebbe told a young Netanyahu that “he, Benjamin Netanyahu, will be Israel’s Prime Minister, who will pass the scepter to the Messiah.”

The Lubavitcher Rebbe and Netanyahu: youtu.be/-6esBnOQa2c?si… x.com/drandelson/sta…
May 28 • 18 tweets • 13 min read
famouskin.com/family-tree.ph…
“Oswald's more prestigious kin include President James Madison, President Theodore Roosevelt, Confederate Major General J.E.B. Stuart, and General Robert E. Lee.”

Mayflower Passenger: Richard Warren - Related to Jeffrey Dahmer: famouskin.com/famous-kin-cha… x.com/drandelson/sta…
Apr 23 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
lubavitch.com/editorial-the-…
“Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky served the Lubavitcher Rebbe as his secretary for more than forty years and is the chairman of the Chabad-Lubavitch educational and social-services arms.”

Chabad: The Unstoppable Movement: torahcafe.com/torahcafemobil… x.com/drandelson/sta… m.jpost.com/jewish-world/j…
“According to Newsweek’s just-published list of the 50 most influential rabbis in America in 2010, America’s No. 1 rabbi is Yehuda Krinsky, head of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.”

Chabad’s Yehuda Krinsky: collive.com/rabbi-krinsky-… x.com/drandelson/sta…Image
Apr 22 • 17 tweets • 12 min read

“Some Frankists were active during the French Revolution, such as Moses Dobruška, a son of Frank's Sabbatian cousin in Offenbach Shendl Dobruska. Many Frankists saw Napoleon as a potential Messiah.”

Jewish History of Napoleon: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Fra…
forward.com/culture/319002…


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Apr 11 • 7 tweets • 3 min read

“Sunday’s NCAA women’s basketball championship between Iowa and South Carolina eclipsed Monday’s men’s final between Purdue and UConn by more than 4 million viewers.”

Feminine Moon, Solar Eclipse: amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/04/10…


Apr 1 • 10 tweets • 9 min read

“At Yale, Lieberman formed a friendship that would strengthen his bond with Chabad. His roommate was Richard Sugarman, who ultimately became a Chabad Chassid and a close friend of Bernie Sanders.”

Bernie Sanders’ Chassidic Adviser: chabad.org/news/article_c…
collive.com/bernie-sanders…


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Image “He specializes in the interstices between phenomenology, Jewish philosophy, existentialism, and ancient and modern humanities. He is also "a world-renowned expert on the Lithuanian-born philosopher Emmanuel Levinas."”

Richard Sugarman: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_S…


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Mar 20 • 29 tweets • 16 min read

“Meïr ben Isaac’s mother was the granddaughter of Aaron Luria, founder of the Luria family and a descendant of Rashi… It contains members such as Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Felix Mendelssohn, Martin Buber, Rashi, and Hezekiah.”

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Katz…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lurie


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Mar 17 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
“James Hinton, father of Charles Hinton, was an outspoken advocate of polygamy. He appears as a character in some fictional accounts of the 19th century English serial murderer known as Jack the Ripper.”

Polygamy and the Sacrifice of the Self: jstor.org/stable/10.2979…


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Mar 15 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Azar…
“Hank Azaria was born in the Manhattan borough of NYC. His grandparents were Sephardic Thessalonian Jews. He is known for voicing many characters in the animated sitcom The Simpsons since 1989.”

Sephardic Jews in America: youtu.be/WNGRi1ZNFS0?si… x.com/Very_0wn/statu… en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Dil…
“In 2001, Barry Diller married fashion designer Diane von Fürstenberg… Her mother was Greek-born Liliane Nahmias, from Thessaloniki, a Holocaust survivor.”

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Feb 27 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
“Inspector Richie Taylor, Commanding Officer of Community Affairs of the New York Police Department and highest-ranking yarmulka-wearing officer, was promoted to Deputy Chief of the NYPD.”

NYPD, Chabad: collive.com/richie-taylor-…


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Image “The Mayor also reiterated his staunch support of Israel, even with growing calls for a unilateral ceasefire in Gaza without Hamas turning themselves in. “I stand up strong for people,” the Mayor said.”

Mayor Eric Adams Hosts Jewish Media at City Hall: collive.com/mayor-eric-ada…


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Feb 20 • 8 tweets • 7 min read
“The Rebbe was studying in the University of Berlin, from 1928-1932. It’s hard to imagine that he did not hear first hand the theories, concerns and reservations of the faculty there, which included Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrodinger.”

chabad.org/library/articl…


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“When Bohm moved to Princeton, he took a room in the house next door to Einstein… Einstein told Bohm’s fiancée that he looked on the younger man as his “spiritual son.”

David Bohm:
infinitepotential.com/bohm-and-einst…
paw.princeton.edu/article/schola…

Feb 15 • 19 tweets • 12 min read
“Walter Lippmann was an American writer, reporter, and political commentator. He is famous for being among the first to introduce the concept of the Cold War, coining the term "stereotype" in the modern psychological meaning.”

Lippmann’s Cold War: responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/01/13/why…


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Feb 11 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
“Aside from Harlig’s Henderson center, there are nine other Chabad houses in Las Vegas, plus the Desert Torah Academy, a Chabad day school. All of this would likely never have been created had it not been for Siegel’s vision.”

Jewish Burial in Las Vegas: chabad.org/news/article_c…


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“Even his introduction by Rabbi Shea Harlig of Chabad of Southern Nevada is refracted through the persona that Goodman has constructed for himself… “This is the only public event he goes to without his showgirls.”

Mayor Goodman: tabletmag.com/sections/news/…


Feb 6 • 9 tweets • 7 min read
“In addition to serving as a “shlepper” in a Bronx infant-goods store owned by an Orthodox Jew, Powell collected a quarter each Friday night for turning off the lights at the synagogue.”

The Shabbos Goyim: tabletmag.com/sections/news/…


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“Powell married Alma Johnson. Their son, Michael Powell, was the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission from 2001 to 2005…. On June 25, 2009, the U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Julius Genachowski as FCC Chairman.”

fcc.gov/biography-mich…
timesofisrael.com/obama-elvis-an…


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Jan 29 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
“In powerful Hollywood circles, Marshall B. Grossman was known as a consummate litigator who represented clients like Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood and J.K. Rowling, and corporations like Apple, Blockbuster and Netflix.”

crownheights.info/chabad-news/85…


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Jan 26 • 6 tweets • 6 min read

“It is permissible to work a non-Jewish servant harshly. Yet, although this is the law, the way of the pious and the wise is to be compassionate and to pursue justice, not to overburden or oppress a servant.”

Slow End of Slavery: chabad.org/library/articl…
chabad.org/parshah/articl…


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Image “Historians discuss the phenomena of the Quakers… Their leaders were deeply influenced by readings of the Kabbalah in translation and by humanists who had learned their ideas from rabbinic sources.”

Hebraizing of Christianity: chabad.org/library/articl…


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Jan 15 • 24 tweets • 16 min read
“Bush was a founder and director of the Union Banking Corporation, an investment bank that operated as a clearing house for many assets and enterprises held by German steel magnate Fritz Thyssen, an early supporter and financier of the Nazi Party.”

spartacus-educational.com/MDbushPR.htm


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Jan 10 • 34 tweets • 30 min read
Hanks mother was from a Portuguese family; their surname was originally "Fraga". His father had English ancestry, and through his line, Hanks is a distant cousin of President Abraham Lincoln.

Ladino, Sephardic Jewry: Every Time We Say Goodbye: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Every_Tim…

“The date 1492 has been almost as important in Jewish history as in American history. On July 30 of that year, the entire Jewish community, some 200,000 people, were expelled from Spain.”

The Spanish Expulsion:
jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-spanish-ex…

Dec 29, 2023 • 15 tweets • 9 min read

“In the Sabbatean literature, Sabbatai Zevi’s character was clearly based on King David, a messianic and androgynous hero whom the Zohar identifies with the Shekinah and the sefirah of Malkhut.”

The Sacred Sabbatean Romansero: academia.edu/43456364/_The_…