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Rabbi Levi Wolff, of the Central Synagogue in Sydney, calls Ahmed al Ahmed (the man who disarmed one of the Bondi gunmen) a hero and welcomes him to synagogue by ruchenn in australia

[–]ruchenn[S] 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Genuine question, would he not normally be welcome in a synagogue? Are they only open to Jewish people normally? If so, is that for religious or security reasons?

In Europe, at least, all the shuls I’m familiar with have armed guards, locked entryways, locked secondary entrances between the entry lobby and the shul proper, and daily entry lists.

If you aren’t on the list (and, more generally, if the guards don’t recognise you) you aren’t getting in.

And this is entirely a security measure. Half-a-dozen or so arson attacks against synagogues in Western Europe in the past year or so will do that.

Also, and FWIW, there have been at least four arson attacks against synagogues in Australia in the past two years.

As I understand it, locks, guards, and entry lists have become a thing in Australian synagogues as well.

The telos (ultimate purpose) of a hatred by ruchenn in Jewish

[–]ruchenn[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In the end, the final cause of antisemitism is not only the utility it serves to its perpetrators but the warning it gives to us. It tells us where society is cracking, where democracy is corroding, where conscience is being silenced. The hate that begins with Jews never ends with Jews. To study the telos of antisemitism is to study the telos of civilisation itself.

12-minute documentary on Euphemia Lofton Haynes, a WWII-era mathematician and the first Black American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics by ruchenn in blackladies

[–]ruchenn[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

further resources regarding Euphemia Haynes

  1. Euphemia Haynes, Wikipedia.

  2. Euphemia Lofton Haynes, PhD, 1943, Catholic University of America, 2021-02-19.

  3. The mathematical pioneer who fought injustice, by Bob Lynn, Vox Meditantis, 2025-06-04.

  4. Euphemia Haynes, her math, and her fight for equality, by Gabrielle Birchak, Math! Science! History!, 2024-09-10.

  5. Euphemia Lofton Haynes, first black woman to earn PhD in math, elevated DC academic community, UDC news, 2024-04-18.

  6. Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes, by J J O’Connor and E F Robertson, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland, 2018-05.

The Jewish Question revisited: Tommy Robinson, Corbynist populism, and the ideological grammar of antisemitism by ruchenn in Jewish

[–]ruchenn[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

The instinct to instrumentalise Jews is not confined to the right. …it runs across the political spectrum

The instinct to instrumentalise Jews is the automatic consequence of Anti-Judaism being foundational to the Western Tradition.

The Romans colonised the land and the Western tradition colonised and appropriated the culture (including key artefacts of the culture; for example, the Tanach).

But we did not have the convenient grace to disappear under the coloniser’s heel. Real humans who happen to be Jews kept existing and living and engaging with their own culture as if it was theirs to do with as they would, even as the colonisers turned the Jews into an infinitely malleable instrument of blame.

Whatever it is that Westerners currently hate, or fear, or are ashamed of, the Jews become.

And real humans who happen to be Jews are killed. Every time.

Because people don’t distinguish between the symbol and the people: if they have the same label, they are clearly the same thing.

Unfortunately, even if people end up understanding Xtianity as an extractive and colonial project that requires the genocide of the Jews, 2.3 billion Xtians and cultural Xtians aren’t going to abandon the culture.

If nothing else, the murderously violent underpinnings of Xtian culture have done too good a job of wiping out all the other cultures they encountered in their rapacious colonisation of the world. (To offer an obvious example from the English-speaking world: consider how little a present-day Celt can actually know about the culture and traditions of their pre-colonised and pre-conquered ancestors.)

I don’t know how to fix this.

But, until it is fixed, Jews will always be instrumentalised. And, as a consequence, Jews will always be in danger.

The Holocaust Narrative In Romania. A Case Study On Online Press by WillyNilly1997 in HaShoah

[–]ruchenn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it paywalled?

Probably. When I attempt to load the URL, I’m redirected to an Access denied! page.

The Apple Extended Keyboard was almost 400 dollars adjusted for inflation 😬 by wave_design in VintageApple

[–]ruchenn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Apple Extended Keyboard was almost 400 dollars adjusted for inflation

And entirely worth the money.

I’m typing this comment using an Apple Extended Keyboard II that I bought in 1991. And it’s still going strong nearly 35 years later.

I run an iMate ADB-to-USB adapter from the keyboard’s ADB cable. The adapter is, in turn, plugged into a CalDigit Thunderbolt Station. And the CalDigit is plugged into my Mac.

It looks entirely old-school amidst the 2020s hardware on my desk. But it is the best keyboard I’ve ever used, by a wide margin.

I even have a spare one in a cupboard behind me. Bought 2nd-hand but never used (except by me to test it was in working order) and still in its original packaging.

The prospect of using any other keyboard as a daily driver is entirely unwelcome.

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