Molly Finkle

He basically followed the same arc as Mohammed. At first he argued that Jews hadn’t converted because they were mistreated, so he urged Christians to treat them better. Then he concluded they wouldn’t convert even if they were treated well - and turned on them with a vengeance. This is the essence of antisemitism, its origin as an idea, the simple... See more

on my mind: modern spirituality encourages us to DIY our own world of life signifiers, to come up with our own spiritual frameworks involving special diets, meditation schedules, intermittent fasts, escapes to nature, and more. but to go down this path, we have to really believe, like @antoniogm says that we can improve on a bar mitzvah as a comi... See more

This is what Jewish peoplehood feels like. The pain is telling us that the organism is working, that we are still a “we.”