Given the recent attempts to deny any Polish complicity in the destruction of Polish Jewry there's plenty of internal pressure as well.

I'm going to disagree with you here on Strange and Thunderbolts - especially Thunderbolts.

Marvels is fantastic when it's the three women superheroes or Kamala's family, the rest feels half baked.

D&W should have been SO much better.

I like BW but it's lesser.

Captain America BNW is the WORST.

Mamdani's superpower with reporters is (a) recognized a baited question and then (b) refusing to take the bait.

I've talked about the "Torah Jews Good, Talmud Jews Bad" delusion before, but this thread adds some context to it that I hadn't really clicked together.

When it comes to associating the Talmud with Zionism, there's another, related factor: The need to see Israel through purely religious terms.

After thinking about this some more, I think there are really two things going on here that interact in weird ways. One is the background radiation of Protestantism that influences everything in this country, and the other is the misinterpretation of Jewish terminology when non-Jews see it.

As always, @joshnathankazis.bsky.social is the first in on a story:

FWIW my wife and I watch Yankee games together most days and we are both really enjoying the system as it has been implemented.

I own a vintage Bosch for my home baking - excellent choice!

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Two perfect days in a row.

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I love how Pitchbot is like "where do people hang out who are just the worst?" and the answer is usually Toms River.

Reform Jews officially don't recognize an obligation to follow the ritual laws, though plenty choose to do so in various ways.

The ethical laws, though, are still seen as binding.

Also, the Talmud remains an important text within Reform Judaism.

Chipwich brand still does.

The Chris Pine DnD movie is another example of embracing the tone of the original material.

This looks fun and the choreography in the apartment ("stop trying to hit me and hit me" vibe) is excellent.

Never played the game but I know the basics.

Np, and I have no objections to the rest of what you wrote.

Came here to mention the Friedman unit - was not disappointed.

But if you make it all the way to the end you get giant whale!

One thing to note:
There's no such thing as "semitic people" or "semites " in anthropology.

There's a semitic language family in linguistics, spoken throughout the Levant and parts of Africa as well.

The term antisemitism was created by Germans who wanted to make Jew hatred sound more science-y.

Bet you need more though

Sadly I haven't seen much in the last decade but I was lucky enough to see the national tour of Hadestown in Philly at the tail end of the pandemic.

That one might blow your friends' minds a bit.

I can't compute someone thinking that's how musicals work in 2026.

(Maybe it's because I (a) became a theater geek in HS, (b) stayed in NJ for college and therefore went into NYC for a LOT of student rush tickets in the 90s, and (c) married a theater geek!)

Me: That's definitely Sholom!

Wife (from the next room): No it's not! It just sounds like Sholom because it's Peter Falk.

AKA, every role the vaguely ethnic looking Alfred Molina has played at one point or another in his career.

Okay, I definitely remember him saying "Sholom".

I guess it's time to rewatch Princess Bride!

I understand why you are including East Jerusalem in your estimate, but I think that EJ and the rest of the WB should be treated separately, at least from a political perspective.

My friends in EJ are very different ideologically from the ones in the rest of the WB, even post 10/7.

Seriously, how do you find these people.

PLENTY of book musicals from the ensuing decades.

Also, hi there from just down the Turnpike!

I really want to know which restaurant (from Teaneck, parents still live there)

Should have been the "S" word, but it's funny either way

If you click through to the article that's the source of the IGN post you will see that Russo didn't say what they say he said.