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Rabbi Mike Rothbaum @ravmike.bsky.social · 3h

I'm sure this will engender as much outrage as the "All about the Benjamins" comment... right?

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 3h

Think the shotgun marriage of ideological convenience between the historically antisemitic international far-right and the Israeli far-right was bad for the Jewish Diaspora? Wait until you see the divorce.

Tweet from Marjorie Taylor Greene: “No bar codes on me.
I’ll never take 30 shekels.
I’m America only!🇺🇸
And Christ is King!”

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Rabbi Mike Rothbaum @ravmike.bsky.social · 3h

you know when we tell you that sometimes the stephen miller criticism flirts with antisemitism, we're not making it up...

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Rabbi Mike Rothbaum @ravmike.bsky.social · 2d

Is that Donald and Melania?

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Rabbi Mike Rothbaum @ravmike.bsky.social · 4d

This is EXACTLY how they talked about Jews when we came here

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Rabbi Mike Rothbaum @ravmike.bsky.social · 5d

Basic decency has a known liberal bias

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Rabbi Mike Rothbaum @ravmike.bsky.social · 6d

Newsom, Pritzker, other Blue state governors:

If ICE agents abduct people without cause, arrest them for kidnapping.

If ICE agents break into a building, arrest them for burglary.

Fight. Back.

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Rabbi Mike Rothbaum @ravmike.bsky.social · 9d

The two things are completely unconnected. I absolutely reject any argument that starts “antisemitism increases when Jews…”

Jews have nothing to do with antisemitism. It is a gentile problem that gentiles should solve.

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Reposted by Rabbi Mike Rothbaum

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 9d

It is wrong to blame an attack on a synagogue on Yom Kippur on Jewish support for Israel, and it is equally wrong to blame it on Muslim immigration to the UK. We can't give in to mutual hate. Be better, everyone.

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Rabbi Mike Rothbaum @ravmike.bsky.social · 13d

I can only assume this was NOT the rabbis’ decision

Rabbi Mike Rothbaum @ravmike.bsky.social · 13d

That’s the joke

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Rabbi Mike Rothbaum @ravmike.bsky.social · 13d

It’s a criticism often leveled at Jewish leaders

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Rabbi Mike Rothbaum @ravmike.bsky.social · 13d

Here is a PSA, for anyone listening:

Anyone who wants to visit my happy little shul — unless they mean to do harm — is always welcome.

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Rabbi Mike Rothbaum @ravmike.bsky.social · 13d

If he was speaking on Yom Kippur, that might be problematic.

Visiting? Anyone who wants to visit my shul — unless they mean to do harm — is welcome.

Rabbi Mike Rothbaum @ravmike.bsky.social · 14d

!!!!!

a man wearing a wig and sunglasses stands in front of a sign that says ' moses ' on it

ALT: a man wearing a wig and sunglasses stands in front of a sign that says ' moses ' on it

media.tenor.com

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Rabbi Mike Rothbaum @ravmike.bsky.social · 16d

A visit from Jehovahs Witnesses gave me the chance to teach the mitzvah of pursuing justice. They looked up the bible verses and asked me to repeat the Hebrew pronunciations. I invited them back any time. Sadly, they weren't eager to stay.

You may be shocked to know they didn't leave any materials.

Tzedek, tzedek tirdof. "Justice, justice you shall pursue." (Deuteronomy 16:20)

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Rabbi Mike Rothbaum @ravmike.bsky.social · 16d

Tzedek MIRDOF, MFer!

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Rabbi Mike Rothbaum @ravmike.bsky.social · 17d

Still waiting for the “Genocide Don” signs. Any day now, right?

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Rabbi Mike Rothbaum @ravmike.bsky.social · 21d

Cartoon of Moses leading the Israelites through the sea. Caption underneath: "He's all right. I just wish he were a little more pro-Israel."

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Rabbi Mike Rothbaum @ravmike.bsky.social · 23d

The irony of the Jew-hater's favored metaphor for purported Jewish secret control of world governments and markets being the octopus, when the octopus doesn't even seem to know what the hell it's doing.

From the NYRB: “Its arms are partly self,”
Godfrey-Smith notes. “But from the central brain’s perspective,
they are partly non-self too, partly agents of their own.” Imagine
trying to move when your eyes work independently, like an
octopus’s, and each of the eight limbs girdled around you has a
vestigial opinion about where to go, and how, and why. For that
matter, imagine looking down and discovering that whatever you
think your brain is planning, your two legs have made quite
separate plans and are already underway in different directions.

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Rabbi Mike Rothbaum @ravmike.bsky.social · 24d

Tried to warn anyone who would listen that Georgia was the testing grounds for nationwide fascism — privately funding police training, beating protestors, militarizing campuses, calling dissent organized crime.

Seth Stern @seth-stern.bsky.social · 24d

Last week I wrote about how the absurd RICO case against Cop City protesters in Georgia threatened journalists, in addition to activists.

Now the federal government wants to do the same -- weaponize conspiracy and racketeering laws to turn dissent into a felony.

Things are moving fast...

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Rabbi Mike Rothbaum @ravmike.bsky.social · 24d

I liked life better when I didn't have to care what was going on with Jimmy Kimmel.

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Rabbi Mike Rothbaum @ravmike.bsky.social · 25d

New content just dropped

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Rabbi Mike Rothbaum @ravmike.bsky.social · 25d

If you're an alum and suggest on the New College of Florida FB page actually a statue of a racist, transphobic, sexist Jew-hater should be toppled — in the Jewish tradition of the toppling of all idols — this is the response you can expect.

You can also expect the college to do nothing to stop it.

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Rabbi Mike Rothbaum @ravmike.bsky.social · 25d

“Remember how I was engraving bullets?”

😒

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Rabbi Mike Rothbaum @ravmike.bsky.social · 26d

It’s just so dispiriting the number of Jews who don’t know that Kirk was a CLASSIC secret Jewish conspiracy, they’re polluting the white race, Jewish money is to blame, unapologetic Jew-hater.

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