It gets criticized in scholarship frequently because it’s not that useful of a metric as well as there being judgment values tied to it. All Jews were in some sense responding to Greek culture and adapted it to varying degrees because it was hegemonic.

Much like the fact there is no one Sharia law, there’s never been one monolithic halakhah. But here we have people inside the house trying to claim there’s one way of doing Judaism. Conflicting minhagim have always existed. Even the notion of rabbinic Judaism as Judaism hasn’t always been true

These consultants act as if political opinions are inviolable like Ahasuerus’s decree in Esther. But the reality is, 1) a lot of people are low info voters and can be moved on a lot of issues and 2) these consultants are centrist who always push the worst policies that only benefit a select few

She’s very beautiful and I was honestly shocked to learn Fox initially wanted someone else as Scully because she wasn’t considered hot enough

Liberal commentators in the West need Netanyahu as a scapegoat to assuage the fact they support a government whose politicians are largely pro-annexation and pro-apartheid.

It is!

Some of my favs though 🥰