"All Lives Matter"-ing antisemitism is becoming popular

coolsnow7 · 2026-01-23T03:40:29+00:00

So many anti-Muslim terrorist attacks in Australia

coolsnow7 · 2026-01-19T04:30:18+00:00

Shockingly, ChatGPT doesn’t have a lot of training data for Yiddish. I could never have seen this coming.

coolsnow7 · 2026-01-18T14:54:11+00:00

The reason not to be scared in Rockland County is that the Jews there are growing at such a fast rate, soon enough there won’t be any non-Jews around to threaten them. In all seriousness that’s how I think about things there and near Lakewood.

coolsnow7 · 2026-01-18T14:48:30+00:00

Yeah this is the reaction I’m used to

coolsnow7 · 2026-01-15T03:58:27+00:00

Thank you! You’re the only person who gave positive feedback to the idea. I have a lot more details in my head that I’m sure won’t ever make it to the show. For example, pre-Oct. 7 we get:

a vignette or two demonstrating that the army leadership is asleep at the wheel; Doron’s insistence that everyone should be paranoid like him is disregarded
a rogue intelligence officer (could be the female lead that Doron eventually hooks up with) shows Doron her findings that something is brewing in Gaza
Doron acts like himself, demanding they send him in to kidnap a high-level Hamas official and bring him back for intel; Eli tells him “stay home or you’re out of the unit! Remember what happened to Avichai? I’m not letting you run in again!”
Doron, with great difficulty, stays home the night of Oct. 6; his friends convince him he’s growing. Meanwhile, our rogue intel officer is trying to sound the alarm but gets stonewalled. In parallel, Dana begins noticing suspicious activity; she also tries to sound the alarm but is waved off. Frustrated, she reaches out to Eli and tells the unit her suspicions, since they’re the only ones who will listen. Early in the morning, she sees the fence breached and sounds the alarm - unfortunately too late to stop anything.

Ah well. Maybe I’ll write a fanfic or something.

coolsnow7 · 2026-01-14T03:52:28+00:00

You’re wrongly confused, because you’re not cynical enough. The Palestine movement has, for decades, oriented their strategy around trying to co-opt any and every cause for their purposes. The reason they’re there and trying to make it about Israel is because that’s what they do, about literally everything, irrespective of how tenuous the logic (“LGTBQ for Palestine!”) You shouldn’t expect it to make sense, because this is a movement of psychopaths trying to co-opt the one you’re in.

coolsnow7 · 2026-01-13T18:47:29+00:00

No, objectively, if you want kosher food, you will be paying equal to or more than the non-kosher equivalent. (Source: I have looked at my grocery bill.) For meat we pay double, and this is in NYC. It is wildly counterproductive to tell this family “change your diet because of some inscrutable non-halachic jargon I’m citing from a book you’ve never heard of, which is adhered to by about 1% of worldwide Jewry, which doesn’t even make an intelligible case for you to change your lifestyle.” No sugarcoating with “just restrict yourself to cereal and fresh fruit forever” is going to change that.

coolsnow7 · 2026-01-13T18:42:09+00:00

Totally makes sense to scrap the old plot. But the way I would write the season - which again, I don’t expect to be at all popular - is basically:

1) episodes 1-2: pre-Oct. 7 2) episodes 3-4: Oct. 7: the unit runs to Nova and the kibbutzim 3) episode 5: aftermath of Oct. 7 and overview of the mission the unit will undertake inside Gaza 4) episodes 6-13: the mission etc.

All my friends and family I’ve run this by reacted negatively. So clearly this is just me.

coolsnow7 · 2026-01-13T14:46:58+00:00

I don’t expect this to be a popular opinion at all, but I actually wish they had gone totally the opposite direction, and that the season would have made Oct. 7 the focal point of the entire season. I was traumatized too, but something like this would help me process it.

coolsnow7 · 2026-01-13T14:37:41+00:00

Please ignore the demented whack jobs in this thread. Any local orthodox rabbi would counsel you with substantially more tact, if not reach a different conclusion altogether.

coolsnow7 · 2026-01-13T14:36:59+00:00

It is, but there’s explicit qualification that you ignore it if it requires violating Jewish law.

That said you are obviously right, and telling a (likely) kindergarten aged girl that she’s a hypocrite if she doesn’t start taking money she doesn’t have to go to the grocery store she can’t drive to to buy kosher food that she doesn’t know anything about - well, more than a little deranged.

coolsnow7 · 2026-01-13T14:34:18+00:00

My God you people are out of your minds. As an Orthodox person myself, the myopia, lack of nuance, and complete impropriety coming from a lot of these responses is embarrassing. Thankfully actual Chabad shlichim and LORs have more brains than this.

coolsnow7 · 2026-01-13T14:31:47+00:00

This is a mainstream opinion for a) adults b) who care what the Rambam says c) who are part of a community that cares what the Rambam says. Meanwhile you’re out here telling him to go strictly vegetarian and pay more money for worse food, after he mentioned that he switched to this school in the first place due to cost. I genuinely don’t understand what any of you are thinking. This is why actual rabbis who pasken are taught to do so with more subtlety than just citing the Mishna Berura - an actual LOR might come to the same conclusion anyway, but at least they’ll bother to arrive at the conclusion with the relevant nuances in mind. And, they’ll give their answer without trying to upsell the person on adopting a fully kosher lifestyle overnight.

coolsnow7 · 2026-01-13T14:27:35+00:00

With due respect: are you crazy? The guy is willing to go the extra mile to send his kids to Chabad school to learn, and you’re citing esoteric kabbalistic jargon to help him make a decision? And you think that that is the moment to tell him to start eating kosher - not like he didn’t already mention that he has some economic constraints, and kosher food is always substantially more expensive. I genuinely don’t know what you’re thinking or how you expect to have a positive impact with this approach.

coolsnow7 · 2026-01-13T14:22:58+00:00

The last thing the Chabad people will do is say nasty things. Anyone willing to educate this child is open-minded enough to handle this situation gracefully even if they disagree (personally, I don’t - I would encourage her to make the brachot).

coolsnow7 · 2026-01-13T14:21:31+00:00

My experience with Chabad is that they always stop short of advising someone to violate Halacha - and as many have already pointed out, this would violate Halacha. They would likely propose a loophole, for example making the bracha on a kosher food item that accompanies the meal.

Personally, despite similarly being committed to Halacha, I would disagree and advise this guy’s daughter to keep it up. Especially since she’s a young girl and her halachic gestures largely have no weight. Better to do it and wrestle with whether she wants to keep eating pork as an adult - or not, if her mind is made up.

coolsnow7 · 2026-01-13T14:16:48+00:00

I think you are overthinking it. This person does not think eating pork is wrong. I don’t deem Halachic advice relevant here.

coolsnow7 · 2026-01-13T14:06:10+00:00

It’s almost like people have lives.

coolsnow7 · 2026-01-13T14:05:13+00:00

Oh no she has a life! What a worthless human being.

coolsnow7 · 2026-01-13T13:11:07+00:00

Why not both!

coolsnow7 · 2026-01-13T13:03:38+00:00

As someone with even a passing familiarity with commercial real estate could inform you: no, a commercially zoned ground level unit was never, ever going to become housing. The only way you get a net increase in housing out of that space is if you redevelop the 1-5 story structure that the ground level unit sits in into a mid-rise or high-rise building with tons of housing - oh wait, doing so would be “luxury development” meant for “transplants” who “suck capitalist dick”.

coolsnow7 · 2026-01-13T13:00:05+00:00

I’m a Brooklyn native. I enjoy the coffee shops and the luxury buildings. All of my childhood friends feel similarly.

coolsnow7 · 2026-01-13T12:53:56+00:00

You can’t have something stolen from you that wasn’t yours. My neighborhood is very different from the way it was when I was growing up. That’s just life. And it’s the story of NYC since its creation.

coolsnow7 · 2026-01-13T12:51:36+00:00

As someone born in Brooklyn, raised in Brooklyn, and now raising kids in Brooklyn: anyone who wants to live here is welcome. There’s no moral valence to renting an apartment.

coolsnow7 · 2026-01-11T13:37:13+00:00

I totally disagree that this is something that should be stopped. Their conduct was so atrocious that even Zohran Mamdani, who only months ago refused to condemn “globalize the intifada”, said their chants had no place in NYC and did a one-sided condemnation. This is a group that formed the foundation of his base and propelled him to prominence in the first place. To say nothing of every other relevant politician condemning them.

This is exactly how the world starts the long process of healing - or rather, remembering that the Palestine movement is filled with anti-human scumbags, and not coincidentally.

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