Ishmael
@hexkrona.bsky.social
“What is hateful to you do not do unto others. The rest is commentary, now go and study.” -Hillel
This week’s Pirkei Avot: Chapter II—
“Which is the oath of virtue a person should follow? Whichever brings honor to his Maker and brings him honor from his fellow human beings.”
“Be as attentive to a minor mitzvah as to a major one, for you do not know the reward for each of the mitzvot.”
“Which is the oath of virtue a person should follow? Whichever brings honor to his Maker and brings him honor from his fellow human beings.”
“Be as attentive to a minor mitzvah as to a major one, for you do not know the reward for each of the mitzvot.”
May 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
This week’s Pirkei Avot: Chapter II—
“Which is the oath of virtue a person should follow? Whichever brings honor to his Maker and brings him honor from his fellow human beings.”
“Be as attentive to a minor mitzvah as to a major one, for you do not know the reward for each of the mitzvot.”
“Which is the oath of virtue a person should follow? Whichever brings honor to his Maker and brings him honor from his fellow human beings.”
“Be as attentive to a minor mitzvah as to a major one, for you do not know the reward for each of the mitzvot.”
Forestry reductively assumes trees can be managed as crops by focusing on a few (primarily tree-related) variables. Yet research is continually revealing how little we actually know about how forests function, and the importance of the below-ground ecosystem. 🌏
Tree functional strategies and soil microbial communities regulate forest ecosystem services 🌲
Provides important information on which functional groups may be planted to promote particular bundles of ecosystem services 💭🌏 🧪
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Provides important information on which functional groups may be planted to promote particular bundles of ecosystem services 💭🌏 🧪
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
May 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Netanyahu privately voicing frustration with Trump’s Mideast policies — report https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-privately-voicing-frustration-with-trumps-mideast-policies-report/
Netanyahu privately voicing frustration with Trump’s Mideast policies — report
US president says the right things on Iran and Syria but this is reflected in his actions, PM reportedly complains; premier's office doesn't deny the report
www.timesofisrael.com
May 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Netanyahu privately voicing frustration with Trump’s Mideast policies — report https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-privately-voicing-frustration-with-trumps-mideast-policies-report/
I recently learned about the custom of studying Pirkei Avot between Pesach and Shavuot.
In my quest to bring more Jewish practices into my life, I will begin studying this each Shabbat and sharing my thoughts here. This will be my first thread on the subject.
#judaism
#torah
#pirkeiavot
In my quest to bring more Jewish practices into my life, I will begin studying this each Shabbat and sharing my thoughts here. This will be my first thread on the subject.
#judaism
#torah
#pirkeiavot
May 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I recently learned about the custom of studying Pirkei Avot between Pesach and Shavuot.
In my quest to bring more Jewish practices into my life, I will begin studying this each Shabbat and sharing my thoughts here. This will be my first thread on the subject.
#judaism
#torah
#pirkeiavot
In my quest to bring more Jewish practices into my life, I will begin studying this each Shabbat and sharing my thoughts here. This will be my first thread on the subject.
#judaism
#torah
#pirkeiavot
This Shabbat was magical 💙
April 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
This Shabbat was magical 💙
Do you know about Project Esther? This administration’s effort to combat Antisemitism without Jewish input completely written by Christians. Guess what, it makes Jews less safe. open.substack.com/pub/rabbisan...
Project Esther Isn’t for Us — And It’s Not About Our Safety
Have you heard about Project Esther?
open.substack.com
April 26, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Israeli academics say: "We strongly denounce the cynical use of 'combating antisemitism' as a pretext... The current acts of the Administration do not keep Jewish people (or anyone) more protected or safe." docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
ISRAELI ACADEMICS: US GOVERNMENT ATTACK ON UNIVERSITIES DOES NOT PROTECT US
We, Israeli professors, educators, researchers, graduate students, and members of academia, hailing from diverse disciplines and backgrounds, possessing diverse political views, living in and outside ...
docs.google.com
April 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Israeli academics say: "We strongly denounce the cynical use of 'combating antisemitism' as a pretext... The current acts of the Administration do not keep Jewish people (or anyone) more protected or safe." docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Yes, Shapiro is a Democrat but what’s relevant here is he is Jewish and last night was the first night of Passover.
The governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, said he and his family were evacuated from their home early on Sunday after an arson attack that significantly damaged a section of the governor’s residence.
Pennsylvania Governor’s Residence Targeted in Arson
The governor, Josh Shapiro, said the State Police banged on the door early on Sunday to wake him and his family after an arsonist set fire to the governor’s residence in Harrisburg.
www.nytimes.com
April 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Yes, Shapiro is a Democrat but what’s relevant here is he is Jewish and last night was the first night of Passover.
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m.jpost.com/opinion/arti.... If you have conservative friends who are Jewish, this is a conservative magazine. They might actually read the article. Please text it to them.
Trump's danger to US Jewry: Living under autocracy never ends well for Jews - opinion
We must not let Trump’s policy of cracking down on far-Left antisemitism lull us into silence while his administration normalizes far-Right extremism and imperils our democracy.
m.jpost.com
April 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
m.jpost.com/opinion/arti.... If you have conservative friends who are Jewish, this is a conservative magazine. They might actually read the article. Please text it to them.
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Yeah, we don’t do that kind of study on vaccines we know work because it would be wildly unethical, you evil shit-for-brains. If you don’t know what clinical equipoise is, MAYBE, and I’m just spitballing here, MAYBE you’re spectacularly unqualified for this job.
Yeah, RFK Jr. is going to make it so the government says vaccines cause autism as he dismisses studies showing no link.
"The studies that they did were very very narrow... 14 of those studies are invalid. The biggest weakness of those studies is they never studied vaccinated versus unvaccinated."
"The studies that they did were very very narrow... 14 of those studies are invalid. The biggest weakness of those studies is they never studied vaccinated versus unvaccinated."
April 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Yeah, we don’t do that kind of study on vaccines we know work because it would be wildly unethical, you evil shit-for-brains. If you don’t know what clinical equipoise is, MAYBE, and I’m just spitballing here, MAYBE you’re spectacularly unqualified for this job.
Denying climate change doesn't make it go away, but does mean it will get worse and we will be unprepared. #birds and other #wildlife are already in danger and suffering extinctions. More: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/c.... 🌎
Trump Administration Cuts Princeton Funding to Study Climate Change (Gift Article)
The cuts to a Princeton University program come as the Trump administration has been reviewing an array of research grants related to global warming.
www.nytimes.com
April 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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“The Holocaust was not an irrational outflow of the not-yet-fully-eradicated residues of pre-modern barbarity. It was a legitimate resident in the house of modernity; indeed, one who would not be at home in any other house.” - Zygmunt Bauman
April 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“The Holocaust was not an irrational outflow of the not-yet-fully-eradicated residues of pre-modern barbarity. It was a legitimate resident in the house of modernity; indeed, one who would not be at home in any other house.” - Zygmunt Bauman
Trump admin cares not for American Jewry or antisemitism. We are just pawns in his political game to target “the libs” and immigrants. This will definitely breed more antisemitism, particularly with those on the left and make it harder for us…
Since it apparently needs to be said: I am a Jew who works on a college campus every day. This policy is apparently being done on my behalf. Not only does it do nothing to help me, it actively makes me less safe, by weaponizing antisemitism against the students I work with every day.
April 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Trump admin cares not for American Jewry or antisemitism. We are just pawns in his political game to target “the libs” and immigrants. This will definitely breed more antisemitism, particularly with those on the left and make it harder for us…
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The US military just purged their website of mentions of the Holocaust, 9/11 remembrance, cancer awareness, sexual assault, and suicide prevention to align with their new “anti-DEI” policies.
Massive purge of Pentagon websites includes content on Holocaust remembrance, sexual assault and suicide prevention | CNN Politics
Articles about the Holocaust, September 11, cancer awareness, sexual assault and suicide prevention are among the tens of thousands either removed or flagged for removal from Pentagon websites as the ...
www.cnn.com
March 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The US military just purged their website of mentions of the Holocaust, 9/11 remembrance, cancer awareness, sexual assault, and suicide prevention to align with their new “anti-DEI” policies.
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Hi @joshuamzeitz.bsky.social. Appreciate your discussion of McCarran-Walter Act in @politico.com
Note ... the provision Rubio is now using was added in 1990 & not part of the original act in 1952.
I wrote about the history of ideological exclusion & deportation & the Act in "Threat of Dissent" 🗃️
Note ... the provision Rubio is now using was added in 1990 & not part of the original act in 1952.
I wrote about the history of ideological exclusion & deportation & the Act in "Threat of Dissent" 🗃️
My latest on the sordid history of the McCarran-Walter Act and why American Jews would be crazy to think the Trump administration is invoking it to combat antisemitism. That’s a smoke screen.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Opinion | The Trump Administration Says It’s Defending Jews. It’s Using a Law That Excluded Jews to Do It.
All Americans should be shocked. American Jews should be deeply alarmed.
www.politico.com
March 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Hi @joshuamzeitz.bsky.social. Appreciate your discussion of McCarran-Walter Act in @politico.com
Note ... the provision Rubio is now using was added in 1990 & not part of the original act in 1952.
I wrote about the history of ideological exclusion & deportation & the Act in "Threat of Dissent" 🗃️
Note ... the provision Rubio is now using was added in 1990 & not part of the original act in 1952.
I wrote about the history of ideological exclusion & deportation & the Act in "Threat of Dissent" 🗃️
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Can we stop pretending DOGE is about efficiency and start acknowledging it's simply a weapon to kill opposition?
And DOGE — like it or not — isn't coming close to offsetting the huge debt increase that Trump's legislative agenda calls for. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
Despite DOGE, Trump's agenda calls for adding trillions of dollars to U.S. debt
Budget experts say Trump’s tax and spending priorities would increase red ink, even as he boasts of balancing the budget. “I don’t think their rhetoric matches reality," one says.
www.nbcnews.com
March 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Can we stop pretending DOGE is about efficiency and start acknowledging it's simply a weapon to kill opposition?
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Donald Trump calls for his own impeachment 👇🏻
March 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Donald Trump calls for his own impeachment 👇🏻
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Time for a Tea Party
I know I keep saying this but the past month has really radicalized me against the Democrats in a way I never was before.
Mark Warner on Fox: "I may disagree with the president, but I respect the office of the president. I'm probably not gonna be jumping up applauding a lot, but I owe him his due as president. The president has made great, great progress on border crossings. That's something we ought to celebrate."
March 4, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Time for a Tea Party
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Donald Trump gèle brutalement l’aide militaire à l’Ukraine pour soumettre Volodymyr Zelensky à sa volonté
Donald Trump gèle brutalement l’aide militaire à l’Ukraine pour soumettre Volodymyr Zelensky à sa volonté
La Maison Blanche a pris la décision de suspendre toute livraison d’armes et de munitions à Kiev. Le but : forcer le président ukrainien à accepter un cessez-le-feu sans conditions et à présenter des excuses après la discussion houleuse dans le bureau Ovale.
www.lemonde.fr
March 4, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Donald Trump gèle brutalement l’aide militaire à l’Ukraine pour soumettre Volodymyr Zelensky à sa volonté
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This is the guy who said COVID was targeted to spare Ashkenazi Jews, and also that an unvaccinated person in the US today has it worse than Anne Frank had it under Nazism. Now he pretends to care so much about antisemitism, when it becomes a pretext to attack higher education. Don't listen to him.
March 4, 2025 at 5:07 AM
This is the guy who said COVID was targeted to spare Ashkenazi Jews, and also that an unvaccinated person in the US today has it worse than Anne Frank had it under Nazism. Now he pretends to care so much about antisemitism, when it becomes a pretext to attack higher education. Don't listen to him.
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Unveiling the hidden partnerships of rare orchids: A journey into symbiotic mysteries
Kenji Suetsugu discusses symbiotic relationships between #orchids & #mycorrhizal #fungi, & highlights the need to combine multiple techniques to unveil nature's secrets
🧪🌎
functionalecologists.com/2025/03/04/u...
Kenji Suetsugu discusses symbiotic relationships between #orchids & #mycorrhizal #fungi, & highlights the need to combine multiple techniques to unveil nature's secrets
🧪🌎
functionalecologists.com/2025/03/04/u...
Unveiling the Hidden Partnerships of Rare Orchids: A Journey into Symbiotic Mysteries
In our new post Kenji Suetsugu, professor at Kobe University (Japan), presents his work ‘Mycorrhizal specialization toward each distinct Oliveonia fungus in two closely related photosynthetic Dacty…
functionalecologists.com
March 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Unveiling the hidden partnerships of rare orchids: A journey into symbiotic mysteries
Kenji Suetsugu discusses symbiotic relationships between #orchids & #mycorrhizal #fungi, & highlights the need to combine multiple techniques to unveil nature's secrets
🧪🌎
functionalecologists.com/2025/03/04/u...
Kenji Suetsugu discusses symbiotic relationships between #orchids & #mycorrhizal #fungi, & highlights the need to combine multiple techniques to unveil nature's secrets
🧪🌎
functionalecologists.com/2025/03/04/u...
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"Increasing timber production would likely target the larger, older trees that are most critical to protect as climate change accelerates. 'These trees are most important trees to leave standing, both for climate resilience, but also for wildfire resilience.'” 🌏 insideclimatenews.org/news/0303202...
Trump’s Executive Order on Forests ‘A Devastating Blow,’ Activists Say - Inside Climate News
Environmentalists say increasing timber production will harm the climate and environment and could worsen wildfire risk.
insideclimatenews.org
March 3, 2025 at 11:54 PM
"Increasing timber production would likely target the larger, older trees that are most critical to protect as climate change accelerates. 'These trees are most important trees to leave standing, both for climate resilience, but also for wildfire resilience.'” 🌏 insideclimatenews.org/news/0303202...
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What we've all seen coming: America's national forests & old-growth trees have never been more at risk than they are today -- "'We Have the Trees' — Trump signs executive order to 'free up' millions of hectares of federal forests for increased timber production." 🌏 woodcentral.com.au/we-have-the-...
We Have the Trees—Trump 'Frees Up' Forests for Timber Production
Donald Trump has signed an executive order to "free up" millions of hectares of United States forests for lumber production - coming days after President Trump
woodcentral.com.au
February 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
What we've all seen coming: America's national forests & old-growth trees have never been more at risk than they are today -- "'We Have the Trees' — Trump signs executive order to 'free up' millions of hectares of federal forests for increased timber production." 🌏 woodcentral.com.au/we-have-the-...
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They believe US Jews should be naturally loyal to Israel, their homeland, and owe transactional loyalty to the USA (as a protected national minority) and MAGA (as our champions).
The dual loyalty trope vs Israel turns on a belief that Jews belong in USA by grace alone.
forward.com/opinion/6993...
The dual loyalty trope vs Israel turns on a belief that Jews belong in USA by grace alone.
forward.com/opinion/6993...
Steve Bannon has given an old antisemitic trope a fresh 'pro-Israel' spin
Steve Bannon said in an interview that American Jews are the top threat to Israel. It's an old antisemitic idea, repackaged.
forward.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:25 AM
They believe US Jews should be naturally loyal to Israel, their homeland, and owe transactional loyalty to the USA (as a protected national minority) and MAGA (as our champions).
The dual loyalty trope vs Israel turns on a belief that Jews belong in USA by grace alone.
forward.com/opinion/6993...
The dual loyalty trope vs Israel turns on a belief that Jews belong in USA by grace alone.
forward.com/opinion/6993...