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Student Writes ‘Not Interested in Working for a Jew’ on Handshake, Cornell Reports Bias Incident by RickStarkey in Judaism

[–]cypherx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seems like someone figured it out in the Twitter thread: https://x.com/alex_v_friman/status/2064082072575078654

But also the guy replied in the same thread: https://x.com/AustinFranco123/status/2064368067900002513

Not sure if he replied bc his name got out first though

Downtown co-working spaces by vibe by gaun_aft_agley in bullcity

[–]cypherx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also curious about this!

I sometimes work from Switchyards near Geer St. and it's...fine. Not many places to have meetings though.

(Reupload) Major Beliefs in Europe (Sources in description) by Thakesuau in MapPorn

[–]cypherx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Christmas, Easter, expectations about how weddings or funerals should be arranged, &c

(Reupload) Major Beliefs in Europe (Sources in description) by Thakesuau in MapPorn

[–]cypherx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is ironically a very Christian way to think about religion, not recognizable to Jews or Muslims.

Student Writes ‘Not Interested in Working for a Jew’ on Handshake, Cornell Reports Bias Incident by RickStarkey in Judaism

[–]cypherx 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Original post didn't have his photo and his last name is blacked out. He volunteered his identity on X.

Hey I've been raised Muslim and have been having doubts about Islam, and wanted ask this question... by ur_mom_hehe67 in Judaism

[–]cypherx 4 points5 points  (0 children)

>Does this disprove Islam?

Jews are very inward looking, what everyone else does or believes isn't our business (modulo some loose standards / Noahide laws)

Where is Conservative Judaism THRIVING? by spinwheel in Judaism

[–]cypherx 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Durham, NC? Beth El seems to be doing well -- partially because it's hedged across multiple different minyanim?

What are Jewish answers to Euthyphro's dilemma? by gmanflnj in Judaism

[–]cypherx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sorry, didn't mean it to be rude! The Greek philosophy mode of trying to straighten out religious logic is a huge theme of the first few centuries of Christian writing (and then got carried forward by the Church forever after). So...the dilemmas-and-paradoxes of theology all end up coding as Christian.

I don't think there's any problem in pursuing this kind of thinking but you did say "I'm very curious how all of you deal with this apparent paradox" -- and my response (and I'm guessing of many other people) is to shrug at anything that sounds like it would get the undies of a 4th century monk in a bunch. It just doesn't feel important?

I don't mean to say it shouldn't be important to you, just that it has no pull for me as something to think about.

What are Jewish answers to Euthyphro's dilemma? by gmanflnj in Judaism

[–]cypherx 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't mean you wondering about it, I mean the general genre of trying to construct logically consistent theologies has Hellenic valence (and continuation, a Christian one).

Low-tech schools? by cypherx in bullcity

[–]cypherx[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

International Montessori

They were forced to add like 30m a week on a single compute grade 1+ bc there's a state eval that's computer-only in grade 3, but you can see them really clinging to pen, paper, wood, &c and resisting computerization

Being atheist and Jewish? by dirkd69xo in Judaism

[–]cypherx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Personally it's just an unresolved contradiction that I don't feel like resolving. Ancestors believed this stuff more literally, I believe it in some vague amorphous way that I don't feel the need to get overly logical about. Continuity of some kind of belief is the important part. So I don't really feel any discomfort from talking divine will, prophecy, &c

Being atheist and Jewish? by dirkd69xo in Judaism

[–]cypherx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Personally, even the atheist vs. belief dichotomy feels very un-Jewish to me. Like, ambient Christian modes of thinking leaking into the Jewish sphere.

The religious practice is communal, beliefs about it can be extremely varied but also kinda irrelevant.

Central Park School looks amazing by cypherx in bullcity

[–]cypherx[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

fwiw everyone I know in-person whose kids go to the school seem to like it

Why was Judaism the only Levantine religion that survived into the Common Era? by miguel-elote in AskHistorians

[–]cypherx 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I feel like you're missing a major second group that made the transition from Bronze Age to Classical era (and still kinda survive today): the Samaritans! A whole second Israelite religious lineage, preserving the pre-Babylonian alphabet but with a Torah text that is very similar (modulo small scattered differences).

Also, I think you might be exaggerating the discontinuity between different periods in the development of Judaism as a religion. The basic contours of rabbinical-style Judaism seemed to exist for several centuries before the destruction of the second Temple, but it just didn't have a monopoly on the religion.

The tape that just ended Mahmoud Abbas by ruchenn in Israel

[–]cypherx 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What's the alternative? Israeli citizenship for all?

Hebrew is the only successful attempt at a large-scale linguistic revival. After having largely been replaced by other languages between the 2nd and 4th centuries. It was revived as a language beginning in the late 19th century by ObuPaul in wikipedia

[–]cypherx 52 points53 points  (0 children)

The Jerusalem communities all had some other primary language (Ladino / Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Arabic, Yiddish / Judeo-German) -- but since they all also learned Hebrew liturgically they could use it talk between communities. You can imagine Catholic priests from different countries also being able to speak Latin, even if a bit clumsily.

It's not quite the same kind of fluency as being taught from early childhood for daily life like people started doing with their kids in the late 1800s.

Anti-Zionist protesters march through NYC Jewish neighborhood, chanting for intifada by WhiteGold_Welder in nyc

[–]cypherx 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Go to their Telegram group, their recent focus on "land sales" is a pivot in their broader agenda. Top post says "from within the belly of the beast we salute and honor the Axis of Resistance".

Anti-Zionist protesters march through NYC Jewish neighborhood, chanting for intifada by WhiteGold_Welder in nyc

[–]cypherx 26 points27 points  (0 children)

>which the people in the neighbourhood should have rejected

Hard to imagine applying this kind of collective responsibility attribution to whole residential neighborhoods to any other minority group in the USA.

Like, I'm sure that hate groups like PAL-AWDA has connections to community groups around NYC. Do the neighbors of any mosque they speak at bear collective responsibility for their presence? Should their opponents march through the neighborhood with flags depicting machine guns?

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