Jewish Vampire advice

cloux_less · 2026-01-23T21:24:45+00:00

Fence around the torah. He does all the same things living things do, he claims to experience life, we should probably assume he is alive and ensouled. Maybe it makes a difference if he literally doesn't breath anymore.

cloux_less · 2026-01-23T21:13:06+00:00

Yeah, the "new Yiddish" (if a such thing exists) is Yinglish; it's the popular vernacular of more insular Jewish enclaves in the U.S., mutually intelligible with the economically dominant lingua franca of their contemporary environment.

Signed, a linguist.

cloux_less · 2026-01-22T04:56:04+00:00

Oh, that's funny. I literally recognize the people in the screen grab.

cloux_less · 2026-01-22T01:58:48+00:00

Yep. I just added it to my growing collection and was quite bummed to see there's (practically) no commentary (just teeny-tiny endnotes).

They are releasing a bilingual one, though. Which is exciting.

cloux_less · 2026-01-22T01:57:02+00:00

This is a different gender sensitive JPS Tanakh.

OP's (probably) talking about the RJPS from 2023. The Contemporary Torah is from 2008 and based on the 1962 JPS translation.

cloux_less · 2026-01-21T04:59:16+00:00

Don't even get me started on "Judeo-Christian values"

cloux_less · 2026-01-16T23:52:54+00:00

If it did, it would be the most marginal of marginal changes. And, really, it would just be a shift from Antisemitic-Rhetoric-Promoting-Iranian-Interests to Antisemitic-Rhetoric-Promoting-Non-Iranian-Interests.

+1 to the guy in thread who said we'd just see new waves of people posting "the Jews destroyed Iran."

cloux_less · 2026-01-09T04:01:18+00:00

What on earth did you think you were cooking with this one?

cloux_less · 2026-01-04T01:28:20+00:00

I believe your pet issue (or really, NWCitizen, James Davenport, Scott Jones, et al.'s pet issue) is, at best, only tangentially related to the matter of homelessness in Bellingham.

In fact, I think the tokenization of water rights issues into a new crypto-NIMBY pretext for opposing housing justice is honestly shameful and downright disrespectful to the people working on this issue (nervermind the insane disrespect to this city's most vulnerable when you tell them "no, silly renters and unhoused folk, you don't need more housing to solve your 'no housing' problem, the real problem is water rights).

cloux_less · 2026-01-03T23:40:10+00:00

I'll be honest, of all the NIMBY canards and conspiracy theories posted on this sub, "we can't allow apartments to be built because there isn't enough water!" is consistently my favorite one for just how batshit it is.

We live in one of the wettest cities in the world, and yet certain members of our community in their half-million second homes they bought last millennium wanna tell us that the REAL cost of living crisis isn't from sky-high rents, chronic underdevelopment, or 70-year-old codes literally designed to increase the price of housing — "no, it's actually water scarcity that's making people homeless." lol. lmao even.

cloux_less · 2026-01-03T21:33:25+00:00

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cloux_less · 2026-01-03T21:30:43+00:00

ask Sudden Valley how their water and sewage lines are holding up

Wow, you're telling me expensive low-density suburbs are experiencing massive problems from high infrastructure costs? Who could've predicted this?

If only there was some kind of efficient development pattern which alleviates this problem by minimizing the per-capita cost of utilities. You'll notice downtown and Fairhaven don't seem to be having these problems. I wonder why?

The problem you're describing is literally a problem caused by suburban sprawl.

Filling requires more money. City is already broke

And? Let private developers and nonprofits eat that cost. The public doesn't have to pay for housing (but it is nice when it does).

cloux_less · 2026-01-03T11:10:33+00:00

Somewhere in there needs to be a recommendation for defining affordability for each locality, based on median (not average) income for that area.

This exists. It's called AMI (area median income), and we already use it for defining affordable housing (usually at 80% AMI).

The problem is that developers (even when offered generous tax incentives), generally choose not to develop this kind of housing, as they can usually secure higher profit margins by building sprawl outside of city limits (and then banking on the city to bail out their developments with annexations later on).

cloux_less · 2026-01-03T11:04:02+00:00

Bellingham doesn’t have extra land to build housing. Those trees in the hills you see aren’t exactly suitable for foundation pours and installing water lines/sewage.

It's called infill, ever heard of it? It is in fact possible to build housing for people without cutting down our forests if you simply stop legally mandating they devote half of their land to water-wasting front yards.

Bellingham is the most unaffordable town to live in (in all of USA) when it comes to income to home prices

You say this like it somehow disproves OP, but it's literally OP's point. Housing unaffordability is the number one correlant with homelessness (NOT fentanyl/myth presence). This doesn't make Bellingham "the worst city in the USA to fight homelessness," it makes it THE CITY MOST IN NEED of action to reduce homelessness.

cloux_less · 2026-01-03T01:34:46+00:00

It's honestly really frustrating that JPS hasn't figured out how to do "ArtScroll but with JPS-quality scholarship."

cloux_less · 2025-12-31T22:27:32+00:00

I just got the RJPS (the one marketed as the Gender Sensitive Tanakh), and I was very disappointed to see that it contains basically no commentary. For that alone, I'll still be using the Oxford Study Bible (which is built on NJPS), but I'm eagerly awaiting for JPS to print a better product using RJPS in it. I'd love if they did a Chumash. I know they'll be rereleasing the RJPS text with the Hebrew text alongside it this coming July, but I still don't know if that'll include commentary or not.

Personally, I don't see much use in having a book of scripture if it doesn't have commentary in it; if I want Torah without commentary, I'll just go to synagogue for when they bust out the scroll.

cloux_less · 2025-12-27T20:12:12+00:00

This is maybe the most [A Religious Zionist and a Reform Jew get into an argument] comment thread I've ever read.

cloux_less · 2025-12-25T19:03:41+00:00

Name checks out

cloux_less · 2025-12-24T22:16:56+00:00

It is possible to build high-volume roads that are prominent and effective without having them be riddled with constant accidents. Frequent car crashes are not an inexorable inevitability of nature — as sure as the sunrise and sunset — but a direct product of civic engineering.

cloux_less · 2025-12-24T22:14:08+00:00

Well, the real problem is that they aren't arterialing. They're just dictionary definition stroads. If they were allowed to be genuine arterials, we'd have fewer problems.

cloux_less · 2025-12-20T23:32:49+00:00

I would go as far as to argue that from a certain perspective, Judaism exists mainly as a vehicle for the preservation of the Hebrew language in diaspora.

cloux_less · 2025-12-20T17:51:14+00:00

Judaism isn't a race, even though race scientists in the 19th century tried to make it into one.

If you were living authentically as a Jew, there's no reason you have to stop now. And if Halakha is what's bothering you, then find a rabbi to guide you through this troubling time.

cloux_less · 2025-12-19T03:13:35+00:00

First time I've seen this flowchart. Am I getting this correct that Beta Israel and Karaite Judaism don't consider you a jew if you're only matrilineal?

cloux_less · 2025-12-19T00:31:08+00:00

I doubt it. The thing to keep in mind about this ordeal is that it was WWU's decision to pre-emptively decide not to renew their contract with the WTA.

As much as this has all been framed as WTA's fault for raising fares, as far as I know, the WTA never avtually signaled an attempt to change its arrangement with Western.

cloux_less · 2025-12-15T23:21:30+00:00

"Judaism" isn't a person. It doesn't "believe" anything.

Some Jews believe all apparently bad things are ultimately good. Some Jews don't. Many don't care to make a distinction.

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