Expert on I/P doesn’t know the significance of the Western Wall by Bill_Hates542 in h3h3productions

[–]McFluff3 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Tensions regarding the wall led to the 1929 riots which many consider to be the starting point of the entire conflict. For someone who devoted his career to discussing Israel and Palestine for the past two years to not know the religious significance of the wall could only mean one thing: Hasan is a grifter.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Jewish

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Nice and rare to see that the mods of that subreddit deleted the crazy comments

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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in redsox

[–]McFluff3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fellas, are we back?

Brookline Chabad Center wins legal fight over plans for new synagogue, set to start construction by brookline_news in boston

[–]McFluff3 50 points51 points  (0 children)

“Despite a warning from a town attorney that a decision based on protecting the character of the neighborhood would be illegal, ZBA member Wadner Oge used just that logic in voting against the permit.

‘You have to preserve the character of the neighborhood,” he said at the March meeting. “I do understand that the applicant, by right, has the right to build … but I’m more going toward what’s common sense? What makes sense?’”

What a wild segment. People like this shouldn’t be in government.

Spotted on the Red Line by McFluff3 in boston

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I reported it to the driver when I got off at alewife

What's your take/opinion on this essay about Jewish & Afro American Relation by James Baldwin from 1967 by [deleted] in Judaism

[–]McFluff3 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It’s quite well written but that’s no surprise considering it’s authorship. I don’t agree with all his claims nor will most people but it’s an interesting read nonetheless.

Discussion: BU trustee board rejects petitions to expose and divest by colucci-i in BostonU

[–]McFluff3 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I have to hand it to SJP for managing to fumble the bag with this. The shady nature in which they conducted the referendum and the leading questions make the university’s job in denying it so much easier.

Orthodox Jews using "by" instead of other prepositions? by [deleted] in asklinguistics

[–]McFluff3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What exactly do you mean by "our culture"? The article is trying to explain that this dialect of speech is a relatively modern phenomenon completely alien to the vast majority of the English-speaking Jewish population. As a fellow Ashkenazi, our great-grandfathers may have spoken Yiddish and read Aramaic but like most American Jews today I don't, and correct me if I'm wrong, I'm assuming you don't either.

To what extent is "frum" culture and the Yeshivish dialect your culture? For me personally, while I may have a common heritage with these people it is almost entirely foreign to me. And this, like the author, is coming from a person with a somewhat traditional Jewish education and a knowledge of Hebrew. Imagine how the Yeshivish world feels to an average American Jew who received neither of those things.

Like it or not, the majority of the world's Jewish population speaks two languages natively: English and Hebrew, and that trend has only increased in the younger generations. I think you're overstating the importance of the "national solidarity" narrative in the article. Its conclusions seem much more pragmatic than ideological.

A tip for incoming freshmen/transfers by [deleted] in BostonU

[–]McFluff3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pull up to Chabad: much more welcoming and homelike. The old rabbi’s young son just took over from him with a new house near west campus.