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Ephraim Stone

@testonewrites.bsky.social

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You know the drill. I read about dead people, teach about Judaism, and write about magic. Less argumentative in 2025 but no promises. Repped by @HandspunLit. Very gay, very Jew.

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Ephraim Stone @testonewrites.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck off.

Ephraim Stone @testonewrites.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t come for Ephraim Stone dot com

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Ephraim Stone @testonewrites.bsky.social · 2d

Seriously

Ephraim Stone @testonewrites.bsky.social · 2d

And then POST A PUBLIC PICTURE where it’s VISIBLE (picture is cropped because the entire picture includes an actual toddler).

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Ephraim Stone @testonewrites.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine being stupid enough to admit that your husband has a swastika tattooed in the general public, but then to defend it…

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Ephraim Stone @testonewrites.bsky.social · 5d

Good for us

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Ephraim Stone @testonewrites.bsky.social · 5d

Good for them. That’s how Jews practice Judaism.

Ephraim Stone @testonewrites.bsky.social · 5d

4). What power, precisely? Because power in 1st century Palestine lay with the Romans, Herodians, and priests, in that order. What power of the Pharisees are you referencing?

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Ephraim Stone @testonewrites.bsky.social · 5d

3). No, the Gospels make it clear that the Pharisees’ main issue with Jesus was his association with violent child traffickers and thugs, which is a legitimate grievance. As well as his claim to rabbinic authority, another legitimate grievance.

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Ephraim Stone @testonewrites.bsky.social · 5d

2b). Giving somebody claiming rabbinic authority a chance to prove themselves by asking them a difficult or impossible question about the law is literally how Judaism works. There are examples of it everywhere in Jewish writings. Jesus is not special in this regard.

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Ephraim Stone @testonewrites.bsky.social · 5d

Okay let’s break this down.

1). Yes. In 30 CE Jerusalem, only the Romans could execute someone. The Sanhedrin had abdicated their power.

2). “Trapping Jesus” here is asking him a question of the Law that seems to have no answer. That’s how Judaism works.

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Ephraim Stone @testonewrites.bsky.social · 5d

I learned about Van Gogh from Where In the World is Carmen Sandiego.

Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 6d

Do you have a favorite example of learning about high culture from low culture? Mine is the episode of Gilligan's Island where the castaways stage a musical adaptation of Hamlet set to the tune of Carmen (70s TV was wild) <1/n>

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Ephraim Stone @testonewrites.bsky.social · 5d

There’s a whole religion that does not do either of these things. It’s called Judaism.

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Trey Ferguson @pastortrey05.com · 6d

Might be time to send missionaries to share the gospel with the white evangelical church in America.

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Yasmin Qureshi MP @yasminqureshimp.bsky.social · 5d

Appalled by the attack on a mosque in East Sussex.

An appalling act of Islamophobic hate.

Grateful no lives were lost, but the impact will be profound. We must stand together against hate and division.

Our strength is in unity, and intolerance will not win.

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Rabbi Emily Cohen @thatrabbicohen.bsky.social · 6d

May the protestors in Chicago be safe.
May their care for their fellow human beings inspire a nation in desperate need of humanity.
May this be the worst it gets.

And if it must get worse
(for it will get worse)
May we cultivate strong wills and soft hearts.
And may we keep protesting.

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Ephraim Stone @testonewrites.bsky.social · 5d

Have you considered that you’re wrong and also a terrible person?

Ephraim Stone @testonewrites.bsky.social · 5d

Because what we needed in a discussion about deconstructing harmful language was the input of Paul Harper, the Main Character of the Universe.

Ephraim Stone @testonewrites.bsky.social · 5d

Are you both somehow under the ludicrous assumption that Jews worship Jesus Christ as a god?

Ephraim Stone @testonewrites.bsky.social · 5d

Are you somehow under the ludicrous assumption that Jews worship Jesus Christ as a god?

Ephraim Stone @testonewrites.bsky.social · 6d

🤨

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Ephraim Stone @testonewrites.bsky.social · 6d

I’m not even mad, it’s so funny.

Ephraim Stone @testonewrites.bsky.social · 6d

Life has value
followed by
The world would be better without you, your turn to die.

Behold the meltdown of a Nazi

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Ephraim Stone @testonewrites.bsky.social · 6d

Follow your leader.

Ephraim Stone @testonewrites.bsky.social · 6d

They have no explanation for saying this other than the fact that I am a Jew. That’s literally it.

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