Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer
@isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social
Traditional-egalitarian neo-misnagdic liturgical maximalist. Yes, I'm the one who made that steamed hams megillah. איהו/ליה (that’s he/him in Aramaic)
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how do you say "spoiler alert!" in italian?
December 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
how do you say "spoiler alert!" in italian?
Sing of the dreidel, o clay-made spinner of heritage ancient
Rounding circuitous, dry and ready for gambling cocoa.
Dreidel, o dreidel, o clay-made spinner with which I will gamble.
So say the Muses, it has thin legs but I haven't seen them.
When it gets tired, it drops; upon said fall I'm a winner.
Rounding circuitous, dry and ready for gambling cocoa.
Dreidel, o dreidel, o clay-made spinner with which I will gamble.
So say the Muses, it has thin legs but I haven't seen them.
When it gets tired, it drops; upon said fall I'm a winner.
December 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Sing of the dreidel, o clay-made spinner of heritage ancient
Rounding circuitous, dry and ready for gambling cocoa.
Dreidel, o dreidel, o clay-made spinner with which I will gamble.
So say the Muses, it has thin legs but I haven't seen them.
When it gets tired, it drops; upon said fall I'm a winner.
Rounding circuitous, dry and ready for gambling cocoa.
Dreidel, o dreidel, o clay-made spinner with which I will gamble.
So say the Muses, it has thin legs but I haven't seen them.
When it gets tired, it drops; upon said fall I'm a winner.
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Happy Hanukkah to all but especially Ahmed Al Ahmed, his children, and Brad Lander for making sure we knew this
Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah.
Praying for his full & speedy recovery.
And so deeply inspired by his example.
Praying for his full & speedy recovery.
And so deeply inspired by his example.
WATCH: Bystander disarms active shooter at Bondi Beach in Sydney
December 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Happy Hanukkah to all but especially Ahmed Al Ahmed, his children, and Brad Lander for making sure we knew this
הַדְלִיקָה נָא נֵר לָבָן
בְּאֹהֶל לִבִּי הַשָּׁחֹר
מִצָּפוֹן וְעַד תֵּימָן
יִזְרַח הָאוֹר
–לאה גולדברג
בְּאֹהֶל לִבִּי הַשָּׁחֹר
מִצָּפוֹן וְעַד תֵּימָן
יִזְרַח הָאוֹר
–לאה גולדברג
December 14, 2025 at 5:40 PM
הַדְלִיקָה נָא נֵר לָבָן
בְּאֹהֶל לִבִּי הַשָּׁחֹר
מִצָּפוֹן וְעַד תֵּימָן
יִזְרַח הָאוֹר
–לאה גולדברג
בְּאֹהֶל לִבִּי הַשָּׁחֹר
מִצָּפוֹן וְעַד תֵּימָן
יִזְרַח הָאוֹר
–לאה גולדברג
Reueven came with his father. They were trying to rebuild what had been broken. It’s broken forever now.
Shimon and Levi had got there early to help set up. When it started, they did what they could while it lasted.
Yehuda was looking forward to hearing about his namesake. Swifter than lions was he.
Shimon and Levi had got there early to help set up. When it started, they did what they could while it lasted.
Yehuda was looking forward to hearing about his namesake. Swifter than lions was he.
December 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Reueven came with his father. They were trying to rebuild what had been broken. It’s broken forever now.
Shimon and Levi had got there early to help set up. When it started, they did what they could while it lasted.
Yehuda was looking forward to hearing about his namesake. Swifter than lions was he.
Shimon and Levi had got there early to help set up. When it started, they did what they could while it lasted.
Yehuda was looking forward to hearing about his namesake. Swifter than lions was he.
antisemites hate chanukah because chanukah is
1) expressly about jewish refusal to assimilate, and
2) mandated to be publicized
so to them it is a representation of all our stubborn refusal to end our story.
to us it is too but positively
1) expressly about jewish refusal to assimilate, and
2) mandated to be publicized
so to them it is a representation of all our stubborn refusal to end our story.
to us it is too but positively
December 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
antisemites hate chanukah because chanukah is
1) expressly about jewish refusal to assimilate, and
2) mandated to be publicized
so to them it is a representation of all our stubborn refusal to end our story.
to us it is too but positively
1) expressly about jewish refusal to assimilate, and
2) mandated to be publicized
so to them it is a representation of all our stubborn refusal to end our story.
to us it is too but positively
this man is a hero
The hero of Bondi: Ahmed el Ahmed, a 43 year old fruit shop owner from Sutherland. He grabbed the gun off one of the terrorists shooting at Jews during a Hanukkah celebration.
Ahmed was then shot in the leg and shoulder by another terrorist. He’s being treated in the hospital and expected to be OK.
Ahmed was then shot in the leg and shoulder by another terrorist. He’s being treated in the hospital and expected to be OK.
December 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
this man is a hero
I understand being disgusted by the shit the Israeli regime is doing. But if you make Jews feel unsafe in diaspora you're doing Bibi's work for him. "Jews are unsafe in diaspora" is exactly what motivates Zionism as an ideology.
December 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I understand being disgusted by the shit the Israeli regime is doing. But if you make Jews feel unsafe in diaspora you're doing Bibi's work for him. "Jews are unsafe in diaspora" is exactly what motivates Zionism as an ideology.
linguistic hint: Nahum mayhaps
December 14, 2025 at 12:19 PM
linguistic hint: Nahum mayhaps
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speaking as someone who did love Potter as a teen and was planning to introduce it to my kids someday before I learned what a horrorshow Rowling was: it’s really easy to give it up, there’s so much else out there and I don’t miss it at all
December 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
speaking as someone who did love Potter as a teen and was planning to introduce it to my kids someday before I learned what a horrorshow Rowling was: it’s really easy to give it up, there’s so much else out there and I don’t miss it at all
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I think basically every political movement has a subsection whose actual core tenet is "There is no difference between people I personally find annoying and the most evil person imaginable," unfortunately
December 12, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I think basically every political movement has a subsection whose actual core tenet is "There is no difference between people I personally find annoying and the most evil person imaginable," unfortunately
happy haggai 2:18 day to all my fellow “ḥanukkah existed before the maccabees rewrote it to be about them” truthers
December 14, 2025 at 8:37 AM
happy haggai 2:18 day to all my fellow “ḥanukkah existed before the maccabees rewrote it to be about them” truthers
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Oh my god NO
Leaving aside the absolute immorality of it (fuck NO)
It’s not even desired in the criminal’s own country
Who the HELL is this man to try to intervene here
ESPECIALLY given the immorality of it.
I still cannot believe how far our hopes have fallen re: this guy.
Leaving aside the absolute immorality of it (fuck NO)
It’s not even desired in the criminal’s own country
Who the HELL is this man to try to intervene here
ESPECIALLY given the immorality of it.
I still cannot believe how far our hopes have fallen re: this guy.
December 14, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Oh my god NO
Leaving aside the absolute immorality of it (fuck NO)
It’s not even desired in the criminal’s own country
Who the HELL is this man to try to intervene here
ESPECIALLY given the immorality of it.
I still cannot believe how far our hopes have fallen re: this guy.
Leaving aside the absolute immorality of it (fuck NO)
It’s not even desired in the criminal’s own country
Who the HELL is this man to try to intervene here
ESPECIALLY given the immorality of it.
I still cannot believe how far our hopes have fallen re: this guy.
types of ḥanukkah songs (inspired by that one tumblr post)
>) Fire fire fire, let us have no fear! We love to look at fire, the fire that is here!
>) Had I lived two thousand five hundred years ago, I'd be a terrorist too.
>) Gambling implement, gambling implement, help us gamble cash away.
>) Fire fire fire, let us have no fear! We love to look at fire, the fire that is here!
>) Had I lived two thousand five hundred years ago, I'd be a terrorist too.
>) Gambling implement, gambling implement, help us gamble cash away.
December 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
types of ḥanukkah songs (inspired by that one tumblr post)
>) Fire fire fire, let us have no fear! We love to look at fire, the fire that is here!
>) Had I lived two thousand five hundred years ago, I'd be a terrorist too.
>) Gambling implement, gambling implement, help us gamble cash away.
>) Fire fire fire, let us have no fear! We love to look at fire, the fire that is here!
>) Had I lived two thousand five hundred years ago, I'd be a terrorist too.
>) Gambling implement, gambling implement, help us gamble cash away.
I will admit that I seen lots of posts from Europeans making fun of Americans for trying to defend drunk driving, but at most one post from an American trying to defend drunk driving. I think most are well aware that drunk driving should lead to immediate license suspension and/or mandated IID
December 13, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I will admit that I seen lots of posts from Europeans making fun of Americans for trying to defend drunk driving, but at most one post from an American trying to defend drunk driving. I think most are well aware that drunk driving should lead to immediate license suspension and/or mandated IID
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lindell secret houthi agent confirmed en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jambiya
December 13, 2025 at 4:33 AM
lindell secret houthi agent confirmed en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jambiya
You know who quoted things endlessly in our generation? MY WIF- *hit in head with tomato*
the 6-7 phenomenon is in no way different from any other catchphrase that kids have yelled out at any point in the last hundred years, there's no daylight between that and when i was in high school, the year straight where every guy kept yelling "i'm rick james bitch"
December 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
You know who quoted things endlessly in our generation? MY WIF- *hit in head with tomato*
Why do cars do this to people‘s brains where they think it’s their God-given right to drive? If you are drinking, then fucking walk home.
“but drunk walking is more dangerous per mile” shut up Mr. Freakonomics, drunk walking doesn’t put anybody *else* in danger
“but drunk walking is more dangerous per mile” shut up Mr. Freakonomics, drunk walking doesn’t put anybody *else* in danger
December 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Why do cars do this to people‘s brains where they think it’s their God-given right to drive? If you are drinking, then fucking walk home.
“but drunk walking is more dangerous per mile” shut up Mr. Freakonomics, drunk walking doesn’t put anybody *else* in danger
“but drunk walking is more dangerous per mile” shut up Mr. Freakonomics, drunk walking doesn’t put anybody *else* in danger
Color me shocked, the guy who breached basic medical ethics to milk the private struggles of his patients for sales bucks may have been a liar
This one hurts: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
I wonder why psychology is so full of people who should've been novelists.
I wonder why psychology is so full of people who should've been novelists.
Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?
The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.
www.newyorker.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Color me shocked, the guy who breached basic medical ethics to milk the private struggles of his patients for sales bucks may have been a liar
right, but none of the people who are saying these things have ever read the books, they’ve just seen the titles and have come to the conclusion that of America isn’t the greatest country on earth that it must be the source of all evil because they’re allergic to nuance
A lot of people like to post the cover of this book to argue that the Eastern Front was just like the American Indian Wars when the first 10 pages of the book are the author explaining the ways in which genocides are different are just as important as the ways in which they are similar
December 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
right, but none of the people who are saying these things have ever read the books, they’ve just seen the titles and have come to the conclusion that of America isn’t the greatest country on earth that it must be the source of all evil because they’re allergic to nuance
I would like to talk a little bit about the experience of living in the Roman ghetto in Renaissance Europe for you guys. Just to give a sense of why the idea that Nazis learned from the US is so offensive. A thread of uncertain length.
To start, the Roman ghetto was deeply overcrowded swampland.
To start, the Roman ghetto was deeply overcrowded swampland.
December 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I would like to talk a little bit about the experience of living in the Roman ghetto in Renaissance Europe for you guys. Just to give a sense of why the idea that Nazis learned from the US is so offensive. A thread of uncertain length.
To start, the Roman ghetto was deeply overcrowded swampland.
To start, the Roman ghetto was deeply overcrowded swampland.
Ghetto. Mellah. Juderiya. Call. Judengasse.
For a people who never experienced any marginalization before the Nazis learned from the confederacy, the Jews have a lot of traditional words for redlined districts which they weren’t allowed to live outside of
For a people who never experienced any marginalization before the Nazis learned from the confederacy, the Jews have a lot of traditional words for redlined districts which they weren’t allowed to live outside of
December 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Ghetto. Mellah. Juderiya. Call. Judengasse.
For a people who never experienced any marginalization before the Nazis learned from the confederacy, the Jews have a lot of traditional words for redlined districts which they weren’t allowed to live outside of
For a people who never experienced any marginalization before the Nazis learned from the confederacy, the Jews have a lot of traditional words for redlined districts which they weren’t allowed to live outside of
Did you know that the Venetians got the idea for ghettoes from USA redlining using a time machine
If you’ve heard the “the Nazis got their ideas from the US segregationists” I beg you to please stop. This is both false and it minimizes historical European antisemitism in a misguided attempt to emphasize the nature of US anti-Black racism.
It’s horrific without comparison to Nazism.
It’s horrific without comparison to Nazism.
May I politely encourage you to reconsider this framing. It is inaccurately stated and suggests consistent and strong linkages that do not exist.
The Nazis did not “get their ideas” from confederate laws. Antisemitism and anti-Jewish laws existed in Europe long before the Confederacy…
The Nazis did not “get their ideas” from confederate laws. Antisemitism and anti-Jewish laws existed in Europe long before the Confederacy…
December 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Did you know that the Venetians got the idea for ghettoes from USA redlining using a time machine
If you told me two years ago that within two years, the third amendment would be incredibly relevant and important. I would not believe me and I was already pessimistic
ICE jackboot: I'm getting in your car
Driver: *drives their car now carjacked by ICE to a police station*
ICE jackboot: Help I'm trapped in here
The news: Yeah he was trapped in there, kidnapped practically
Driver: *drives their car now carjacked by ICE to a police station*
ICE jackboot: Help I'm trapped in here
The news: Yeah he was trapped in there, kidnapped practically
FBI: Man, woman drive to police station with Homeland Security agent trapped in vehicle
A man and a woman are facing charges of assaulting a federal officer after Homeland Security Investigations agents tried to arrest the man Wednesday for overstaying his student visa. The pair drove to...
www.mprnews.org
December 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
If you told me two years ago that within two years, the third amendment would be incredibly relevant and important. I would not believe me and I was already pessimistic
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I think excessively lachrymose (I feel fancy) history of the Jews in Europe etc is overdoing it, but my God, Europeans didn't need colour-based racism to inspire their ideas about Jews.
December 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I think excessively lachrymose (I feel fancy) history of the Jews in Europe etc is overdoing it, but my God, Europeans didn't need colour-based racism to inspire their ideas about Jews.