Rabbi Jonah Geffen

Faith is the ultimate counterculture.

[Rabbi Jonah Geffen @JonahGeffen]

So today I officiated my first funeral in the time of social distancing. My clergy colleagues have been doing this for weeks, they’ve been thru so much more. I’m in awe. But I wanted to share. Mostly to process. Partially to inform. Thread.

[Rabbi Jonah Geffen @JonahGeffen]

@NTarnopolsky The truth is an even bigger indictment

[Rabbi Jonah Geffen @JonahGeffen]

This

[David Simon @AoDespair]

Speaking as another Jew: You're a fucking shanda and if there were only nine of us gathered and it was the morning of my father's yahrzeit and you stumbled in and promised to just sit in the corner and shut up, I'd say, sorry, no, we don't have a minyan.

[Rabbi Jonah Geffen @JonahGeffen]

@CageyProlific Phesto. Not up for debate

[Rabbi Jonah Geffen @JonahGeffen]

@tromyam

[Noga Tarnopolsky נגה טרנופולסקי نوغا ترنوبولسكي @NTarnopolsky]

💥Tel Aviv right now

[Rabbi Jonah Geffen @JonahGeffen]

@HeimishHumor Ok this is fantastic

[Noga Tarnopolsky נגה טרנופולסקי نوغا ترنوبولسكي @NTarnopolsky]

💥It is an avalanche. @MoodysInvSvc announces it will release a report advising against investments in Israel. @MorganStanley relists Israel's economic outlook as "undesirable." @Citi highlights risks associated with Netanyahu's legislative putsch. https://t.co/tCKdk6FeK7

[Teamsters @Teamsters]

💥“WE’VE CHANGED THE GAME”: TEAMSTERS WIN HISTORIC UPS CONTRACT💥

Today, the #Teamsters reached the most historic tentative agreement for workers in the history of @UPS, protecting and rewarding more than 340,000 UPS Teamsters nationwide. #1u

[Noga Tarnopolsky נגה טרנופולסקי نوغا ترنوبولسكي @NTarnopolsky]

💥#Breaking Every living ex IDF Chief of Staff, Mossad & Shin Bet director & 100s of IDF officers tell Netanyahu in a devastating letter he is personally responsible for the huge damage perpetrated on the IDF & demand immediate action. "We expect you to take responsibility" #Boom

[Rabbi Jonah Geffen @JonahGeffen]

@greatlakesqueer You got a code for me perhaps? 😁

[Rabbi Jonah Geffen @JonahGeffen]

@therealelp Spectacular

[Council Member Tiffany Cabán (D22) @CabanD22]

As welcome as this ruling is, the sad fact is that it will not be enough to pressure the NYPD to clean up its act.

Why?

Because not only don’t they pay these fees…

Not only don’t they budget for these settlements…

They don’t even track them!

3/4

[Rabbi Jonah Geffen @JonahGeffen]

This matters

[Senator Ben Ray Luján @SenatorLujan]

But now the federal government has the opportunity to do right by the primarily Hispanic and Indigenous New Mexican communities and pass the expansion and extension of RECA. There can be no time wasted. (7/7)
https://t.co/gkZYKbrVUz

[Rabbi Jonah Geffen @JonahGeffen]

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[Barak Ravid @BarakRavid]

This is an amazing video from around an hour ago of the protest march from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem against Netanyahu's judicial overhaul. Thousands of Israelis are marching in a mile long procession. It is 95°F outside (35°C). Watch here:

[Rabbi Jonah Geffen @JonahGeffen]

👏👏👏

[Noga Tarnopolsky נגה טרנופולסקי نوغا ترنوبولسكي @NTarnopolsky]

💥Israel's Coastal Highway is blocked

[Rabbi Jonah Geffen @JonahGeffen]

@AbbyChavaStein Holy fucking crap

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

🎂 🎂

[Rabbi Jonah Geffen @JonahGeffen]

@RealHalseyE @tashakaminsky @ShulimLeifer Right. And do you roundly and vocally oppose any bat kohen who has had sex out of wedlock, or a kohen who married a grusha? Do you make sure to be as vocal about every possible aveirah? And if so, do you think yourself and your community above the need for tikun middos?

[Rabbi Jonah Geffen @JonahGeffen]

@RealHalseyE @tashakaminsky @ShulimLeifer Ah, we don’t address the ethical dilemma do we

[Rabbi Jonah Geffen @JonahGeffen]

What gets me the most is ‘religious’ people who prove their ‘religiousness’ thru cruelty

Is there a more misused term than ‘religious?’