Adina M. Yoffie

Both “lay” and “lied” are correct for the past tense of “lie.”

Exactly. I actually think the Muslim concerns mostly could’ve been handled in a separate article (or already were), w/some reference to them briefly in the article about the synagogue and the Lebanese airstrikes. I thought that article was trying to do too many things at once & thus did nothing.

Yesterday, I had one of those days when I had like one productive hour in the morning on (necessary) non-work stuff and then could never get to work stuff. Fortunately, today I was stressed enough about that to make myself do work.

Yes!

Shabbat Shalom to everyone but…etc.

Antisemitism and violence against Jews HAS GOTTEN WORSE over the last several years. And anyone suggesting otherwise is a fucking liar who is either a hateful bigot or who has nefarious intentions or both.

Yes, please

Yup. Though I would not have suggested capitalizing either holy or apostolic.

Also, it may seem like a, sorry, but the Episcopal thing was not meant as a jab. We had just talked about Jews in Episcopal school on here before.

Oh, I realize this might’ve come up in Episcopal school. And I still think it was a mistake, but I understand where you’re coming from.

You mean “Catholic,” since that means, “of the Catholic Church,” whereas small-c “catholic” just means “universal,” which is why they named their own church that in the first place. Fun fact! Or not, but I didn’t go to religious and intellectual history grad school not to share this.

The 250th anniversary of the American Revolution is also the 350th anniversary of King Philip’s War/Metacom’s Rebellion--a brutal series of events that had a fateful effect on the future of the land

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I get that. I thought the whole thing was very slippery and would not swear that that is what it was trying to say. It was the absence of really any purpose at all in the article that was kind of confusing and left room for that possible interpretation.

I will leave the more sophisticated media critique to people like @jamisonfoser.bsky.social and NYT Pitchbot and continue my unfortunately these days often accurate, “ok, this NYT article was poorly written and framed and just generally sucked.”

Absolutely

A lot of it was Detroit-area Muslims saying, “now there will be blowback to our community,” which is a reasonable concern, but it was oddly paired with the article’s IMO implication that somehow the blowback on the Jewish community was justified.

I also thought the article’s framing sucked. I actually bothered to read the thing, not just the headline, and it was poorly written and also sucked.

Sedevacantism, American-style!

“The Chicago Manual of Style rule here may seem kind of counterintuitive, but we have to follow it.”

That is true, and note that nowhere in my post did I say that Israel was the only place not to have an equivalent of the ADA. It was just about the US versus Israel.

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And no equivalent of the ADA. I know at least one person with a disability whose parents made aliyah and who then came here for college and never left for that reason.

An Israeli Modern Orthodox friend asked me when I was ca. 25 why I wouldn’t make aliyah. Me: “first, I hope to get married, and I don’t want to be married by the Rabbinate.” She: “then why don’t you get married in Cyprus?” Me: “why would I move to a country whose marriage policies disgust me?”

Nazis loved raping Jews.

Or saying that those justify attacking synagogues

I posted at some earlier time about a lefty podcaster talking about Yuval Harari’s Sapiens, playing a clip of him, and then saying, “wow, is the Israeli accent really that close to the French?” This guy spends hours ranting about Israel, and apparently has never met an Israeli.

Total lack of desire to learn anything about an entire society before vilifying it and everyone associated with it on a daily basis, with terrifying consequences

The most charitable explanation is that many of them are ignorant and thus not lying on purpose. But there are definitely people who know exactly what’s going on and still lie.

The thing about Israel critics these days is that I don’t understand why so many of them lie when the truth is more than sufficient.

Sorry, I was joking, making reference to the fact that they probably don’t even think there were lessons.