I can only recommend how I’ve been paying attention, which is reading the Times of Israel and Haaretz English, which provide useful Israeli perspectives
Now that the hostages have been released, and there is a cease-fire, is anyone here gonna acknowledge that Hamas also has agency? That Hamas also could have done different things that didn’t prolong the war? Or, for that matter, start it?
Right, I forgot. Only Israel and Biden had agency.
I mean let's face facts if you're saying this proves Biden could have gotten a ceasefire you either haven't paid attention to what's been happening in Gaza since Trump came into office or you never cared about Palestinians at all (or both).
The only reason BiBi agreed to the ceasefire now is because he’s down to, around, 20 living hostages and he can’t afford to let them all die. Not unless he wants to spend the rest of his life trying to not wind up like Rabin.
The point is that using “Pharisees” in this context is an anti-Jewish caricature- as it was intended to be by the authors of the NT. And had caused harm to Jews for centuries
Watching the ALCS between the two expansion teams from 1977 makes me happy because I was a kid becoming obsessed with baseball at the time. (Yes, I know Ruppert Jones was the 1st pick in the expansion draft to the Mariners)
Side point is that I would argue that the Karaites are also descended from the the Pharisees and were a response to rabbinic Judaism in 7th-9th century.
But that’s a quibble (and interesting intellectual rabbit hole) and your larger point is correct.
Then I’m a weirdo….oh wait, no. I’m just someone who has read Pirkei Avot - which is literally printed in the siddur I used yesterday - that has the transmission lineage of the Torah (hint: there are Pharisees involved)
Jewish day school kid here. I knew who the Pharisees were and that they were my ancestors when I was a 2nd grader. I had no idea Jesus or the New Testament had a view of them until I read the NT in college.
Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "
Every time Judaism becomes a national topic -- which seems to be every day -- it's like a free-for-all of gentiles confidently being publicly wrong about us.
I am celebrating the ceasefire & the release of hostages and Trump deserves credit but…I’m gonna need Israeli commentators not to tell Jewish Trump opponents in the US that “we have Trump all wrong”
No, we don’t. You see a slice of him, we see him whole. Appreciate your slice; don’t impose it on us
“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”
