Any time I do my taxes I think about this letter from Donald Rumsfeld.
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Charles Entenmann passed away today at 92. His delicious creations graced Shabbos kiddushes across the world.
If you had to eat one of these in his memory what are you choosing?
Yiddish friend: So, you started Duolingo Yiddish??
Me: Totally. Every single day.
Yiddish friend: *speaks Yiddish*
Me *in perfect Yiddish*: “The Zebra is next to the pyramid.”
There’s a famous picture of a Chanukah menorah being lit from a window with Nazi banners visible through the window.
The photo was taken by Akiva & Rachel Posner in 1931.
Tonight their grandson Yehudah lit from that very same menorah inside the home of the President of Germany.
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בחנוכה 1931, קצת יותר משנה לפני עליית היטלר לשלטון, צילמו הרב עקיבא פוזנר ורעייתו רחל חנוכיה שהעמידו על חלון ביתם בעיר קיל שבצפון גרמניה מול בניין שעליו נתלה דגל המפלגה הנאצית - תמונה שהפכה לסמל. הערב הדליק נכדם, יהודה מנסבך, את אותה חנוכיה בדיוק במשכנו של נשיא גרמניה
left to right: a before/after picture for a workout regimen.
right to left: a before/after picture for an outreach yeshiva.
Leave Twitter because it’s overrun with anonymous voices escalating arguments with one another? Babe, I study Talmud.
“And after you packed your bags, was the luggage with you the whole time?”
** Old school Rosh Yeshiva congratulates his Modern Orthodox son on completing rabbinic ordination**
Incredible video of a French YouTuber about to a super dangerous stunt until he’s stopped by a young Jewish boy concerned for his safety. ❤️
Gene Wilder in The Frisco Kid is my fav intro to Jewish Philosophy.
Judaism doesn’t have “Minor holidays” and “Major holidays.” We have holidays “that require excessive amounts of tin foil” and holidays “that don’t.”
People have been telling the Jewish people that we’ve spun our proverbial last dreidel for over 2000 years.
But here we are.
Still spinning. ❤️
“There are less than 8 million Jewish people in this country. Fewer than are watching this game.”
~TV commercial calling out antisemitism that ran during today’s Jets game.
That the Jewish people continue to light over two thousand years later is the continued miracle of Chanukah. ❤️
30 years ago today, after losing an election for his second term, President George Bush left this letter to incoming President Bill Clinton.
A moving testimony to what political discourse once was and could still be.
Grateful for God’s precious miracles
❤️ וְעַל נִסֶּיךָ שֶׁבְּכָל יוֹם עִמָּנוּ❤️
💕 Mazel tov, we had a baby boy💕
Don’t forget that insisted on his signature sneaker being affordable. He turned down a lucrative signature sneaker deal and instead made a shoe that costed a fraction of the price and sold at Walmart.
Class act and mentsch.
This should be required watching.
Good primer on how to have a normal and healthy interaction with a Hasidic Jew. Not so hard after all.
Mazel Tov & Shalom 🙌🙌🙌
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A YouTuber reviewing a pizza shop in Westcliff-on-Sea meets a local Jew...
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“It says here on your resume you served as a Shabbos Goy. Can you speak more to that experience?”
This prayer was composed by Jews in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during the Holocaust lamenting to God that they will be unable to avoid eating chametz and eat matzah on Passover.
In the depths of hell, Jews still reaching for the freedom to have faith. ❤️🩹
There’s *gotta* be a better way to advertise the value of Judaism. 🤦♂️
If you had $ for such a billboard what would yours say?
Judaism: Come for _________, stay for ___________.
Please. Not this.
jokes on them it’s how much time we need off for jewish holidays.
The Jewish People are in mourning. 💔
Rav Chaim Kanievsky zt”l.
It’s really special to see a yarmulka on an nba court. 🙌❤️🙌
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RYAN TURELL MAKES HIS G LEAGUE DEBUT WITH THE @MotorCityCruise! 
The @YUNews legend is looking to become the first Orthodox Jew in NBA history.
The @YUNews legend is looking to become the first Orthodox Jew in NBA history.
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I'm getting contradictory messages from these NYC subway walls.
Which should I be?!?
Help!
Amount of time kindergarten teachers spend discussing the Biblical plagues in Egypt
**Shul President tries to negotiate mechitza size for new building**
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When they said NYC is Coming Back™️ I was hoping that wouldn’t include Jews getting beaten up and no one caring.
I successfully defended my dissertation today.
This process was arduous & filled with doubt: what’s the point, does it even matter, who cares, this is garbage.
This process also taught me about baby steps, incremental growth, and my enduring faith in a little bit at a time.
❤️
Gentiles of the world, I plead with you once again: STOP USING GEMATRIA.
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“Why did the chicken cross the road?”
The Talmud: Is there a river? Is there a bridge? Are the eggs fertilized? Like usually or only once?
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People who call it a Chanukia instead of a Menorah are the same kind people who make sure to call it “in-line skating” instead of rollerblading.
SHABBOS IS COMING AND WE’RE SO EXHAUSTED WE’RE GONNA WHIMPER AND CRAWL TO KIDDUSH SIX DAYS A WEEK WE WAIT FOR SHABBOS A GIFT FROM HASHEM AND WERE SO TIRED SO LETS SOB TOGETHER SHAAAAABBOS LETS SOB TOGETHER SHAAAAABBOS
I wouldn’t normally amplify this type of rhetoric but this person is running for district leader in Brooklyn.
Minimizing very real acts of anti-semitism in order to highlight other issues—even important ones—is the worst kind of politics. twitter.com/soulkhan/statu
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1.75₪ arrives in Israel. 🙌
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A thread:
I rarely post about this sort of stuff but I feel compelled.
My 4 year old son is in a Teaneck public school. He has an IEP for services.
Schools were supposed to reopen next week.
Last night--yes, last night--the board voted 5-4 to remain closed.
Why has no one in the American chareidi community managed to create the hilarious videos w/ the incredible marketing skills of these Israeli chareidi Bardak videos?
Mincha today will be 2PM at Home Depot aisle 3 next to the zip-ties.
**Broad-minded Yeshiva guy squinting at the Vanity Fair profile on Ben Shapiro**
“Artscroll edition Mishnah next to a Koren edition Talmud?!? This guy mamish is nonpartisan.”
The OU surprised me.
The OU-D left me speechless. 😳
Yeshiva students saving sea turtles. ❤️
From
אליעזר קוֹלין
“Never make fun of someone who pronounces words incorrectly—they learned them from books.”
Always loved this quote.
Here’s my list of words I mispronounced for way too long.
🙈 Awry
🙈 Apropos
🙈 Niche
Which words did you mispronounce because you learned them from books?
A woman asked for a bracha from a major rabbi whose son started wearing tefillin.
Rabbi turned around and asked her for a bracha for *his* son that stopped wearing tefillin.
Now that Rabbi’s son shared his own video.
The original video That Rabbi’s Son
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When my wife asks me when I’m taking down the Sukkah.
From
Akhil Vohra
As I tucked my son in tonight, I whispered, “daddy was verified on twitter this week.” We hugged. My son looked at me, beaming, and said, “I’m so proud of you—what is a twitter.” And I looked back at him, tears in my eyes, and showed him how many followers I had.
❤️Fatherhood❤️
**When the explicit reason for a halacha is no longer relevant but you keep it anyways**
Harley Jarvis strikes again.
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A toddler earned the title of one of the tiniest White House intruders after he squeezed through the metal fencing on the north side of the executive mansion. apne.ws/q0tkmXx
After my Bubbe passed, my Zaide got remarried at the age of 80 to Mildred Shapiro—they met online!
She is one of the most incredible people I’ve ever met.
She was with my Zaide for 14 years.
She turns 99 today and wishing her the happiest birthday in the whole wide world.
Miami Goys Choir
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Rabbi Twerski requested that he should not be eulogized.
Instead he asked for a song to be sung.
“Save and bless Your very own people; tend them and sustain them forever.”
~Psalms 28:9
no matter the relationship with zionism, the heart still flutters a little bit when you listen to hatikva. ❤️
Saw You People on Netflix
Very disappointing.
Here’s a quote:
“I don’t turn in the news everyday and see people in yarmulkes getting shot by police because they was out minding their business.”
This whole scene was cringe.
A list no one asked for or wanted.
Jewish terms that also sound like first names:
1. Tom Kikkar
2. Billy Reishis (and Billy Tachlis)
3. Pierre Vkavod
Please unfollow me. 🙈
(But add more before you do pls)
💡 give simple shaloch manos and extravagant matanos l’evyonim.
Yahrzeit.
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Non-native English Speakers, what’s a word from your language that you think is perfect that doesn’t have an English equivalent?
Take us to church.
This is a masterclass on how to respond when a random person approaches you and asks you to weigh in on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Which, to be perfectly clear, random people should *not* be doing.
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“Jews control finance” conspiracy theorists gonna have a field day when they find out the guy who oversaw Lehman and SVB bankruptcies was named “Joe Gentile.” 🙈
"They studied in our schools throughout their lives; even though they decided not to keep Torah and its commandments, we must take care of them throughout and embrace them, without any conditions.”
Heartening. ❤️🩹
israelnationalnews.com/news/372123
There are more Mormons than Jews in the world. I find that mind blowing.
Finally the mystery of how Larry David discovered the true story of the ski lift and the yichud question from Curb Your Enthusiasm (S5E8) has finally been revealed in this fascinating interview between David Samuels and RFK Jr.
I’ve had this q for years!
If you were looking for a reason to advocate for other ways to spend our local educational tax dollars --- school choice, vouchers, whatever--look no further than Teaneck, NJ.
When schools can't open, but restaurants, bars, and busiensses can---something is seriously broken.
Ben Gurion met the Klausenberger Rebbe, and asked him what’s the minimum he’d want to see religiously in Israel and what’s the most he’d want to see.
“The minimum,” the Rebbe said, “is that I should be able to wear a shtreimal openly—the most is that *you* should wear one too!”
If rabbis invented Mother’s Day there would be like 10 pages of Talmud analyzing whether a husband needs to celebrate his wife on Mother’s Day.
Yes, I am so impressed with my son's teacher.
But, no this is not acceptable.
Here's the bottom line: Our public schools are broken. They are not thinking about the children in the system. They do not have any clear standards on how to open or close. It's broken.
Good Shabbos to everyone having a dairy kiddush this Shabbos. ❤️
“A Lubavitcher, a Breslover, and a Litvak are all sitting in gehenim…” 😂
My mother calls the time in between camp and school, “The Real Nine Days.”
“One chose law school, one remained in Yeshiva but they remained close brothers.”
One candle, everyone knows the rules. ❤️
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Happy Hanukkah and Happy Holidays form the Portnoy family to yours #Hannukah
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Movie idea: A group of Orthodox Jews, frustrated with the way they’re depicted by Hollywood, decide to make a movie of their own about their community. Chaos ensues.
Real friendship is being able to say “it’s time to bentch” even when you’re not hosting the meal. 🥰
A rabbi who is buried in Ukraine reminded us all:
אין יאוש בעולם כלל
Never lose hope.
❤️❤️❤️
I would cover my face too if I said something so outrageous. Disgusting.
From
Blaze Music
Getting emotional writing this.
The Jewish People needed some good news. And after a long saga we are finally here:
DUNKAROOS ARE KOSHER!!!
Confirmed by and, more importantly, .
Mazel tov, mazel tov.
Tonight is my favorite Jewish holiday.
Hei Teves—Didan Netzach.
It celebrates the victory restoring the Chabad library in the hands of the chassidus.
And get this.
Wanna know what the ritual is to celebrate?
BUYING BOOKS!!!!
Can’t make this stuff up.
❤️ 📚❤️
I can’t vouch for the chocolate but always appreciate plugging kosher and making brachos. 🙌
I tried giving myself a haircut before Pesach.
Now I have to self-quarantine until Shavuos.
🤷♂️😭👨🏻🎤
