Jeffrey R. Woolf

Medieval & Renaissance Jewish Historian, Modern Orthodox Rabbi. Italophile, Believer in thought in a world of Extremes, Aspiring Violinist

[Jeffrey R. Woolf @JeffreyWoolf]

@slowhoneybee And now, as at Munich, countries are deciding the fate of other countries without even asking them.

[John Podhoretz @jpodhoretz]

Our vice president is about three minutes away from posting pictures of Pepe the anti-Semitic frog.

[Jeffrey R. Woolf @JeffreyWoolf]

@ElliSchorr I don't care about his sincerity. I care about what he did and does.

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@ElliSchorr Not worth a response

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@NaorNarkis @hanan_green בתור משתמט שאיננו עושה מילואים אתה יש לך את האמינות של שרימפ

[Jeffrey R. Woolf @JeffreyWoolf]

@NaorNarkis @yaacov_elitzur אתה לא קרבי ולא לוחם. רק פה גדול ודמגוג. חבלז איתך

[Jeffrey R. Woolf @JeffreyWoolf]

@BobBrigham @SimoneKanter Are you out of your mind?

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@Inbalgilmore יותר מזה. אני תמיד מופתע איך שלישראלים שיש להם קשר וגם עסקים בארה"ב אין מושג ירוק לגבי מה שבאמת קורה שם.

[Jeffrey R. Woolf @JeffreyWoolf]

@Inbalgilmore כל מילה. הסיבה שאנחנו שוב שם היא שלא סיימנו את המלאכה בעבר. מה גם שסידר תקוע ב1982, ועכשיו זה 2026 אחרי הצלחות כבירות נגד חיזבאללה.

[Samuel Gregg @DrSamuelGregg]

@FrancisXRocca @holysmoke @Pontifex The scholar Paul Kengor has written extensively on this topic and demolishes a number of myths in doing so.
https://t.co/0WwnGLVFxa

[Jeffrey R. Woolf @JeffreyWoolf]

@TebejeYaffa אמן אמן אמן סלה ועד.... אני יכול לחשוב על עוד כמה שאני בדיוק מאותה סיבה רוצה לאחל להם הצלחה כבירה באזרחות.... 😎

[Jeffrey R. Woolf @JeffreyWoolf]

One of the most beautiful lines in Rashi's commentary on the Giving of the Torah is that the Israelites camped at the foot of Mount Sinai, as one person and with one heart (כאיש אחד בלב אחד). Shavuot, like Pesach, is a festival that celebrates and aspires to highlight Jewish unity, mutual responsibility, shared history, experience and vision.
I've spent much of my life, and certainly the past number of years, focused on creating and strengthening shared Jewish literacy and national morale.
That is why it's hard to openly acknowledge the fact that Jewish unity can also be a false god. Just being born a Jew, even an educated Jew, does not give you a pass for any an all actions. If you aid and abet, facilitate or validate, support or refuse to oppose (directly or indirectly) the mass murder of other Jews at the hands of our enemies, then you have forfeited the right to be considered part of the nation.
Judaism acknowledged that need by providing for excommunication of Jews who endanger their brethren. It is a weapon that should be wielded with caution, and warily. Even if not invoked, it reminds us that Jews can be traitors to their people and their faith.
For the information of Peter Beinart, Jewish Voice for Peace, INN, and their choir in the academy and media.

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@OdeliaMinnes ברוך שפטרנו.
@SethAMandel

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Now that @academic_la has made his debut in Kristoff's column in the @nytimes, here is how distinguished Prof. D. Orbach and respected journalist @amit_segal describes him.

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@YairEttinger וגם החרדלים.