Rabbi David Polsky
@motownrabbi.bsky.social
Friendly Orthodox rabbi; NYC➡️Nola➡️ Michigan;
👨👩👧👧 Torah thoughts and #dadjokes; #blacklivesmatter; he/him/his
👨👩👧👧 Torah thoughts and #dadjokes; #blacklivesmatter; he/him/his
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Come to our Chanukah shiur, either in-person in NYC (UWS) or over Zoom! 🔥🕎🍩
Tuesday 12/16, 6:30pm EST to arrive in person/schmooze, with shiur starting around 7:00pm
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December 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Come to our Chanukah shiur, either in-person in NYC (UWS) or over Zoom! 🔥🕎🍩
Tuesday 12/16, 6:30pm EST to arrive in person/schmooze, with shiur starting around 7:00pm
Sign up here: bit.ly/hl-chanukah
Tuesday 12/16, 6:30pm EST to arrive in person/schmooze, with shiur starting around 7:00pm
Sign up here: bit.ly/hl-chanukah
This week’s Parsha is VaYishlach, which has a number of sources relevant to the issue of civilian casualties in warfare. Here is a Sefaria source sheet I created with most of those sources:
www.sefaria.org/sheets/52680...
www.sefaria.org/sheets/52680...
Civilian Casualties in Parshas VaYishlach | Sefaria
www.sefaria.org
December 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This week’s Parsha is VaYishlach, which has a number of sources relevant to the issue of civilian casualties in warfare. Here is a Sefaria source sheet I created with most of those sources:
www.sefaria.org/sheets/52680...
www.sefaria.org/sheets/52680...
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This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
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It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
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Kids these days just have to believe us that it never used to be acceptable for the president to threaten his political opponents with execution every day while stealing billions of dollars.
November 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Kids these days just have to believe us that it never used to be acceptable for the president to threaten his political opponents with execution every day while stealing billions of dollars.
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I'm going to posit that serially defending Nick Fuentes (sorry, his alleged good points) as a purported devil's advocate from the left is sufficient evidence that one has an antisemitism problem
November 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I'm going to posit that serially defending Nick Fuentes (sorry, his alleged good points) as a purported devil's advocate from the left is sufficient evidence that one has an antisemitism problem
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You guys it is possible for antisemitism to be a real and rising issue *and* for people to be racist/Islamophobic against Mamdani. It’s not an either/or. Please stop dismissing the very credible threat of antisemitism because some people who raise the issue suck.
November 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
You guys it is possible for antisemitism to be a real and rising issue *and* for people to be racist/Islamophobic against Mamdani. It’s not an either/or. Please stop dismissing the very credible threat of antisemitism because some people who raise the issue suck.
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I cannot overemphasize that Marjorie Taylor Greene, Carlson, and Fuentes see a 2028 path to victory that involves building an isolationist populist coalition that traffics heavily in antisemitism and exploits existing negative sentiment against Israel.
We have to be SHARP on the left right now.
We have to be SHARP on the left right now.
November 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I cannot overemphasize that Marjorie Taylor Greene, Carlson, and Fuentes see a 2028 path to victory that involves building an isolationist populist coalition that traffics heavily in antisemitism and exploits existing negative sentiment against Israel.
We have to be SHARP on the left right now.
We have to be SHARP on the left right now.
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It’s shocking: for years, the right would conflate not supporting Israel with anti-semitism, to make the case for supporting Israel.
Now the right is conflating not supporting Israel with anti-semitism, to make the case for anti-semitism.
Now the right is conflating not supporting Israel with anti-semitism, to make the case for anti-semitism.
November 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
It’s shocking: for years, the right would conflate not supporting Israel with anti-semitism, to make the case for supporting Israel.
Now the right is conflating not supporting Israel with anti-semitism, to make the case for anti-semitism.
Now the right is conflating not supporting Israel with anti-semitism, to make the case for anti-semitism.
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Loomer says “Nazis are bad,” and the Rasmussen guy immediately says “Well, supporting Israel hurts us” - an astounding and revealing conceptual leap
Major Republican pollster warns that digging in on anti-Nazism will fracture their coalition
November 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Loomer says “Nazis are bad,” and the Rasmussen guy immediately says “Well, supporting Israel hurts us” - an astounding and revealing conceptual leap
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🎧 “Back when the alt-right was called the alt-right… people used to not believe me when I said how central the Jews and the so-called Jewish question were to that project.”
November 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
🎧 “Back when the alt-right was called the alt-right… people used to not believe me when I said how central the Jews and the so-called Jewish question were to that project.”
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There is no excuse for Finkelstein doing this. Nothing defensible. And even if you completely separated everything he said from what Owen’s did, he still relied on conspiracy theories and negative stereotypes about Jews. In 2025, we don’t need any of this to talk about Israel.
Norman Finkelstein, the fuck is wrong with you?
This is the second time he's gone on Candace Owens' show, and look how she frames the interview in her tweet.
This is the second time he's gone on Candace Owens' show, and look how she frames the interview in her tweet.
November 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
There is no excuse for Finkelstein doing this. Nothing defensible. And even if you completely separated everything he said from what Owen’s did, he still relied on conspiracy theories and negative stereotypes about Jews. In 2025, we don’t need any of this to talk about Israel.
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For those who aren't keeping up, Mamdani is a Zionist now (for condeming swastika graffiti on a yeshiva)
November 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
For those who aren't keeping up, Mamdani is a Zionist now (for condeming swastika graffiti on a yeshiva)
November 5, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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The Jewish right discovering in real time that the Trumpist right, and the open bigotries it has unleashed upon the US body politic, is not in fact going to spare Jews, is quite a trip.
October 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The Jewish right discovering in real time that the Trumpist right, and the open bigotries it has unleashed upon the US body politic, is not in fact going to spare Jews, is quite a trip.
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Re-posting my recent Halakhic article on starvation in war (especially Gaza):
thelehrhaus.com/timely-thoug...
thelehrhaus.com/timely-thoug...
The Starvation of Gaza: A Halakhic Argument | The Lehrhaus
David Polsky explores a passage in the Sifrei that is key to articulating a Halakahic position on withholding food as a military tactic.
thelehrhaus.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Re-posting my recent Halakhic article on starvation in war (especially Gaza):
thelehrhaus.com/timely-thoug...
thelehrhaus.com/timely-thoug...
Here is a version of my article on the starvation of Gaza that better enables one to read the footnotes:
thelehrhaus.com/download/los...
thelehrhaus.com/download/los...
thelehrhaus.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Here is a version of my article on the starvation of Gaza that better enables one to read the footnotes:
thelehrhaus.com/download/los...
thelehrhaus.com/download/los...
Re-posting my recent Halakhic article on starvation in war (especially Gaza):
thelehrhaus.com/timely-thoug...
thelehrhaus.com/timely-thoug...
The Starvation of Gaza: A Halakhic Argument | The Lehrhaus
David Polsky explores a passage in the Sifrei that is key to articulating a Halakahic position on withholding food as a military tactic.
thelehrhaus.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Re-posting my recent Halakhic article on starvation in war (especially Gaza):
thelehrhaus.com/timely-thoug...
thelehrhaus.com/timely-thoug...
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October 22, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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A very erudite and impressively well-cited Halakhic argument by @motownrabbi.bsky.social against the permissibility of starvation in Gaza as a legally or morally acceptable tool of war. Well worth reading. thelehrhaus.com/timely-thoug...
The Starvation of Gaza: A Halakhic Argument | The Lehrhaus
David Polsky explores a passage in the Sifrei that is key to articulating a Halakahic position on withholding food as a military tactic.
thelehrhaus.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
A very erudite and impressively well-cited Halakhic argument by @motownrabbi.bsky.social against the permissibility of starvation in Gaza as a legally or morally acceptable tool of war. Well worth reading. thelehrhaus.com/timely-thoug...
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They did the thing
September 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
They did the thing
(((Powerful people)))
September 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
(((Powerful people)))
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I am once again asking you, people of Bluesky, to please not try to make every single post by a Jew about Palestine.
What’s happening must be talked about. And is being talked about.
And Jews are entitled to engage in their Judaism in other ways as well.
What’s happening must be talked about. And is being talked about.
And Jews are entitled to engage in their Judaism in other ways as well.
September 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I am once again asking you, people of Bluesky, to please not try to make every single post by a Jew about Palestine.
What’s happening must be talked about. And is being talked about.
And Jews are entitled to engage in their Judaism in other ways as well.
What’s happening must be talked about. And is being talked about.
And Jews are entitled to engage in their Judaism in other ways as well.