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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 9h

FWIW, they sell undershirt tzitzit that are basically a tank top that's been cut and stitched to have the four corners for tzitzit. I'm pretty sure that the armhole is wide.

Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 10h

Well, also, I believe that congressional seats have much more of an incumbent advantage than governors do.

But yeah, terrible instincts.

Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 10h

Which yeshiva?

(Just curious, my son is doing his year there right now)

Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 10h

I'm not sure that's the case, but the last time I taught this was almost 20 years ago and it was part of a larger lesson on pirating media.

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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 10h

The Talmud considers tax collectors to be like thieves HOWEVER we still have to pay them because of an obligation to follow the laws of the non Jewish authorities as long as they don't conflict with our own ritual/ethical obligations.

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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 14h

When SNAP was as much a farm aid program as it was a food program, funneling people towards specific foods made at least some policy sense.

Once the farm aid and SNAP were disconnected it stopped making sense and just became a way to police being poor.

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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 15h

FWIW, I'm not arguing that any of this is fair to Mamdani - it isn't. I'm also not excusing the communal behavior, especially the bigoted rhetoric from some corners. Instead, I just want to help folks understand that there are a lot of high emotions involved.

Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 15h

For many NYC Jews - perhaps even a plurality - this is a candidate and background who they just can't bring themselves to vote for. Of course some of it is classic Islamophobia - every group has their bigots - but for many others they are scared and being egged on by leaders who should know better.

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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 15h

So, you've got a community that feels unstable and fears for its safety. That same community has learned (unfairly) to associate anti Zionism with danger for Jews.

Enter Mamdani, a pro-Palestinian, young, charismatic candidate who has past associations with people who say stuff that scares Jews...

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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 15h

It's the largest in any city outside of Israel.

It is incredibly diverse, running the full spectrum of different practices from every corner of the Jewish globe.

On average, however, it skews at least a bit more traditional and a bit more Zionist than the average of American Jews as a whole (cont)

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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 15h

As a result, a lot of American Jews are feeling both unstable and unsafe. When a lot of people feel that way it doesn't take much to push them towards feelings of full on terror and suspicion.

Now, let's talk about the NYC Jewish community in particular:

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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 15h

Over the past couple of years we've seen whole sections of US society rise up against Israel (which I don't have a problem with) and often devolving into classic antisemitic tropes/conspiracy theories (which I have a MAJOR problem with).

(cont)

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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 15h

It's a good question.

World Jewry is only 3 generations removed from the Holocaust - there are still some survivors alive - and two years removed from the Oct 7 attacks. (Cont)

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 22h

Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto

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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 16h

Thanks for answering - I figured that this one was very much in your wheelhouse.

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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 1d

Porn includes stories. What we now call "slashfic" is about as old as anything else on the Internet.

Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 1d

Porn

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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 1d

This got the loudest laugh from my wife all night - thanks.

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tweets mcgee is not changing his name to something else @smallupsetter.bsky.social · 1d

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d.ly @dly.bsky.social · 1d

please, we are all 30 or 40 years old and we need to go to bed

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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 1d

One of certainly

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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 1d

This game is just...

Wow

Wow

Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 1d

And the "why" is (a) money and (b) Stephen King appears to never say no to anyone asking for rights.

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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 1d

I'd argue that this isn't a remake - instead another movie based on the same material.

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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 1d

As we've gotten away from being in agrarian society in the levant we've had to take things like "the volume of an olive" and turn them into measurements that make sense today.

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