Friend, this is not something you volunteer for. This is something you raffle off the opportunity to do and donate the proceeds to an anti-trafficking charity; think bigger! (Kidding, mostly.)

Oh, okay. Good. Confused > geriatric any day! :)

How the hell is Mira Nair old enough to have a grandkid who is old enough to be the mayor of New York? I suddenly feel deeply geriatric.

Which is why Jesus wasn't the Mosiach; since we are evidently not living in an age of peace and plenty.

Only to the extent that something would change if the prophecy was complete. God didn't tell us to follow the law until the Mosiach showed up. If the Mosiach arrived tomorrow or in a million years or never, Jews would still follow the law. Just, in the event of Mosiach, in a more peaceful world.

Given that we at least sort of nominally believe in reincarnation, perhaps both are true?

Yeah, maybe we just don't talk about David at all? Because "God's favorite bisexual fuckboi" just doesn't make good middle school curriculum.

That is the gayest Oberon costume I've ever seen, and I once costumed a Midsummer production done entirely in drag. A+, well done, no notes.

A human born of a Jewish mother, or converted through study, approval by a rabbinical court, and immersion in a mikveh.