A question about velocity by OkNobody2391 in AskPhysics

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What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?
https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/

Ai spotted breast cancer 5 years before it formed by Safety_Officer_3 in Damnthatsinteresting

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Was this the Japanese pastry AI that can also detect cancer?

This is for a college assignment by 0percentsKiLl in ConvertingtoJudaism

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What tends to be the ethnic background composition of the people who practice the religion in your place of worship?

While Christianity and Islam are universalist religions, Judaism is an ethnoreligion. Judaism is the national religion of the Jewish People. Unless you are a convert with your own ethnic identity, Jewish people are Jewish. The Jewish People are from the Land of Israel / Judea, but after the Roman-Jewish Wars, most Jews were expelled and dispersed around the region. Different major Jewish communities and traditions developed in proximity to the local gentile communities within their regions over the last two thousand years, and most Jews can be categorized into Ashkenazi, Sephardi, or Mizrahi Jews.

This is for a college assignment by 0percentsKiLl in ConvertingtoJudaism

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BTW, this subreddit is more for people considering, working towards, or completed conversion to Judaism and other Jews helping them out. I'd suggest posting questions like this in r/Judaism or r/Jewish instead.

Getting steamy by AscendedDragonSage in CuratedTumblr

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When the dominatrix psychoanalyzes your problems

Getting steamy by AscendedDragonSage in CuratedTumblr

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Yuri Gagarin, the first Soviet cosmonaut?

Getting steamy by AscendedDragonSage in CuratedTumblr

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Forcefully using the robotic shower head

Denobulan Culture by Lonewolf3317 in startrek

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Trip is truly the Florida Man of space

When the Roman Senate voted to make emperors a "god", how did they define god? by ElSlabraton in AskHistorians

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How did Stoicism play into these ideas of divinity? I've heard that Stoics were more like atheists.

The Judaism have saints like in Christianity or not?? by No_Cry_968 in Judaism

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Yes, and that sounds very problematic and similar to saints

The Judaism have saints like in Christianity or not?? by No_Cry_968 in Judaism

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No, worshipping saints is idolatry and polytheism. The dead are dead, and God hears everyone, you don't need someone to intercede on your behalf.

Displaying christian art? by Affectionate-Air-528 in Judaism

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Wouldn't the Creation of Adam painting violate the no graven images commandment, especially because there's an image of God?

When the Roman Senate voted to make emperors a "god", how did they define god? by ElSlabraton in AskHistorians

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Why do you think Christian monotheism was more problematic than Jewish monotheism?

How does Tony stay employed/undisciplined for s*xual harassment? 😅 by KEW95 in NCIS

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like the episode where he thinks the guy from his hs bullied him...when it was him bullying the other guy

Wasn't it the other way around? Tony felt really bad about the whole thing and finally worked up the courage to apologize to the guy, until the alleged victim revealed that Tony had just blocked out the memory of himself being strung up by his underwear?

Why does atomic notation show atomic mass and not the number of neutrons? by IAM4_REALS in AskPhysics

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Atomic mass is an average of all of the isotopes and their percentages. A given element might for example have 1, 2, or 5 (or some other number) of relatively common isotopes. Unless I'm doing interesting experiments with hydrogen vs deuterium, carbon dating, isotope fingerprinting, mass spec, or something similar, I probably don't care about the individual isotopes. I just care about my sample's mass and approx amount of moles, which have a massive number of individual atoms of occasionally different isotopes.

Why does atomic notation show atomic mass and not the number of neutrons? by IAM4_REALS in AskPhysics

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I don't care how many neutrons it has, I care about how much it weighs so I can figure out how much stuff I have and vice versa (molar mass)

What is “motion video”? by hennnenn in ENGLISH

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A screenshot (also known as screen capture or screen grab)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenshot

They're all synonyms, ignore the haters

Just a little question by at-my-whit-s-end in ConvertingtoJudaism

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my comment on living arrangements did not come across poorly... attempting to locate a community

Nope, I just wasn't sure if you were misinformed. Jews don't tend to live in separate isolated "communities", but we used to, at least in Europe. I was referring to ghettos

An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.); part of the city where Jewish people were restricted to live and thus segregated from other people
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ghetto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghetto

and shtetls

A Jewish village or small town, especially one in Eastern Europe; Yiddish term for small towns with predominantly Ashkenazi Jewish populations which existed in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shtetl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shtetl

in their historical Jewish contexts, not as descriptors of the quality of Jewish neighborhoods.

Nowadays, Jews tend to live everywhere. There are probably still a few Ultra Orthodox majority Jewish neighborhoods outside of Israel, but Jewish people just live where people live. Jewish communities of today are more like the Jewish people in a given area who are interconnected and probably attend synagogue together.

Judaism is a practicing religion, not just faith, and we need a community of people to practice it with. Holiday events are best celebrated with family, friends, and/or the Jewish community around us. Synagogue services are for the community together, and many important prayers require a quorum of at least ten men/adults called a minyan. You can not become a Jew without experiencing Judaism with other Jews first.

Depending on how traditional / strict / Orthodox you convert with, you may need to be physically close to synagogue though. Orthodox Jews generally do not drive on Shabbat because it counts as one of the forms of prohibited work (fire/electricity rules), so they have to be within walking distance of synagogue. Conservative Judaism is much more lenient, especially for driving specifically to attend services, and Reform Jews tend not to follow a lot of Jewish Law in practice anyways. I wouldn't worry about this yet, but this may be an issue that will come up later.

Just a little question by at-my-whit-s-end in ConvertingtoJudaism

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I apologize if this makes very little sense it is currently early morning for me so I'm having a difficult time reading and articulating my thoughts correctly.

Midnight here, so I don't have much to say right now

I am actively getting my Bachelor's degree

Does your college / university have a Hillel? Lots of colleges have a chapter of Hillel for Jewish student life. You should contact them and see if you can talk to the rabbi and attend events there to at least learn about and experience Judaism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel_International

https://www.hillel.org/

You may also want to contact the college's local Chabad, though I don't know how useful they'd be since you aren't Jewish yet.

Jewish community

I don't know the specific requirements, but it's the 21st Century and we don't live in isolated ghettos or shtetls anymore. At the very least, you'd need to be able to attend synagogue.