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#UPenn, to its credit, is appealing immediately. Gifted from my sub:

Penn will appeal judge’s ruling ordering release of names of employees affiliated with #Jewish organizations to #Trump administration

#Pennsylvania #Jews #USpol

https://share.inquirer.com/ccoAvQ

The #school said much of the information that the #government had requested is not collected. #Students & #faculty groups also condemned the government’s demand for a #list of #Jews, drawing a parallel to methods deployed in #Nazi Germany.

The case has represented a test of how far the #government can go to investigate its suspicions about antisemitism in higher #education, & Judge Pappert’s decision could shape how aggressively the #Trump admin pursues inquiries on other campuses.

#law #1A

@therightarticle I don’t think Ben-Gvir and bloodthirsty war criminal #Netanyahu fully thought through how #Jews toasting the killing of #Muslims might come across. You’d think they’d be experts on how blood libels are born.

(For me, the real issue is that this is an attempt to again undercut resistance, which is a fundamental right of an occupied people according to various international law frameworks.)

@itsweezie Of course, MILLIONS of people have died in prior wars & purges in the "name" of #Catholicism" & MILLIONS of #Jews were singled out for death by the #Nazis. 🤷‍♂️

This is not the reason I'm am an #antheist." I use to hedge can call myself an #agnostic but I am a DEVOTE atheist.

I'm not #religious because #religion is just something that was made up by MEN to control & exert power over people into behaving the way that they want people to behave in subordination to them.

If you believe in the tenets of any religion, you do NOT have to abide by the rules of an organized religion to live by them.

I believe in the #TenCommandments & the #GoldenRule not because I believe in #Christianity but because they just make sense. 🤷‍♂️

There are other religious tenets that make no sense to me at all & I pay absolutely NO attention to them.

#MythologyMonday : numbers, math and calculation

There is a #myth / #superstition (take your pick) in the #Jewish tradition that #Jews should not be counted - at least not directly. It is considered bad luck. This is sometimes ascribed to the biblical verse: "And the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which shall neither be measured nor counted".

Unsurprisingly, Jews have found ways around this. For example, in synagogue there is a tradition of a minyan - ten people must be present in order to say certain prayers. It is customary in some synagogues to use a Torah verse that contains ten words instead of using numbers.

I recall a family story of some long ago relative naming the expected guests as they set the table, putting down a plate for each person, rather than explicitly counting them.

@mythologymonday