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I’m ready for the Hot Summer of Justice. I predict it starts with more announcements and indictments from Jack Smith, and then DA Fani Willis will show us some more justice Atlanta style.
CAPS will lock. Ketchup will fly.
Author Milan Kundera, who was most famous for his 1984 novel, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," died yesterday at the age of 94. Here are some of his most memorable quotes from interviews and articles over his long career.
There is no such thing as "Haftorah."
The word "#Torah" comes from the word #teaching. A teacher is "Morah," and a parent is "Horeh." Parents are often the ones who teach us Torah.
#Haftarah comes from a completely different #Hebrew word. It means "additional," and is related to the word Maftir, the additional Torah reading.
To English ears, Haftarah and Torah sound similar. That leads to the common misspelling and mispronunciation, "Haftorah."
Today in Fiddler on the Roof mis-quotes:
"May G-d bless and keep the Meta tsar...far away from us!"
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> so they started accusing her and her entire instance of being zionists
There are so many gross thing that antisemites do when it comes to Jews. This is one of them.
On Twitter, I often saw the phrases like "the Talmudic Jews". The idea is that then "Talmudic" becomes a sort of slur that one must deny being.
Similarly, the idea that being a Zionist is something to be "accused of" is highly offensive.
Most Jews are Zionist, and some Jews are not. But using Zionist as a slur is antisemitism, and it's a form of antisemitism that I see regularly, both online and out in the world.