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

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

Being for or against abortion doesn’t mean you’re for or against American values. Are you ready to defend the values on which America was built? That’s the question.

up to that point, no country had welcomed Jews as both strangers and neighbors. Throughout much of the world, Jews were terribly persecuted. Meanwhile, in England, Jews achieved success, but could not participate in society as equals; for that, conversion would be required. And if Jonas Phillips’s letter to Washington expresses the essence of Abrah... See more

This is the reason why the most important conflict in the West is not between Democrats and Republicans. It’s between liberals and progressives. Progressives are hiding behind liberal ideas. And in order to live out the promises of liberalism—equality, freedom—progressives are willing to destroy our world for the sake of building a new one with abs... 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