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Maybe it's time to review what tshuvah is (and isn't.) A nice concise summary of the steps, according to Maimonides: Note a few things: 1) "stopping doing harmful stuff" comes

Thread. Jews, the Christian Zionist endgame is Armageddon/ bringing the end times, during which they believe we will not be saved. We’re a tool to help them get there. Even

The stages of repentance are:1) Fully own the harm caused (publicly in this case) 2) Start to change—therapy, education etc3) Amends, in whatever way might be possible 4) apology if

There is something in particular that I appreciate about this (overall pretty good) Episcopalian Bishops’ statement about protest and policing: 1/x threadhttps://episcopalchurch.org/posts/publicaffairs/episcopal-church-house-bishops-july-

A quick thread on making asks. 1/xWriting as someone who gets asked to do stuff--sometimes speak/teach/write, sometimes make connections, sometimes "pick my brains," etc--this is highly subjective, but a few

Left: Antisemitic caricature from an English royal tax record in 1233. Right: An image from a GOP mailer from this week. This here is a thread. 1/x First, link to

Well, @RepTedYoho is trying to play the "father of daughters" card, so maybe a few thoughts about what's really underlying that trope, eh?1/x thread The idea, it seems, from the

Someone elsewhere asked me how to educate oneself away from Christian supersessionism, and wondered about a more radical Jewish-Christian split that happened around Constantine. (It was before Constantine). Here's what

Thread. 1/xThese are Jews. Yes, there are Jews from India. These are Jews. Yes, there are Jews from Morocco. These are Jews. Yes, there are Jews from Ethiopia. These are

Thank you, random Presbyterian, for trying to tell me how "every Jew" reads Torah. Should we do this thing? OK. Mini-thread.https://twitter.com/TheRaDR/status/903648810416705539 Here's how Jews read Torah.It's a Mikraot Ge

OK, some folks have asked me to talk about the whole "stone to death your wayward and rebellious son" in Deuteronomy 21, which I am happy to because the Rabbis'

THREAD. 1/xSome more Torah on our absolute obligation to non-citizens, to immigrants, to the vulnerable migrants in our midst. גר ger can be translated as an alien, a sojourner, an