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One of the loudest voices at my shul for stuff like getting us to start saying the prayer for medinat yisrael and other ways of making us into a more explicitly Zionist space posted to the shuls slack about the hostages at like 3pm on shabbos. Not breaking news, just continuing a conversation that started on Friday

Idk. I try not to judge people for their level of observance, but this just feels so indictive of this kind of approach, a centering of Zionism in lieu of centering halakha or tradition. Turning to ethnic pride while discarding the things that have traditionally held us together. To spend so much energy arguing for changing our space while not even being bashful about breaking shabbos in front of an Orthodox community indicates such a disregarding and disrespectfullness for what the rest of us are choosing to center. It grinds my gears! Really steams my hams!


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The ideas are pretty good, the writing,, not as much. I just wish he had a stronger editor who would tell him to put down the thesaurus lol

Also I'd be interested in your thoughts on it because he does talk about your sphere of Judaism, the like svara fringe queering and remaking circles, with not too favorable an assessment. Overall he seems very pessimistic on the future of American Judaism with arguments im still chewing on

I am also tickled that he couches every generalization with "in non Orthodox Jewish communities" lol, feels weird being so explicitly left out of the conversation. I'm half way through and I don't think he's once spoken about my community because he's only interested in "liberal Judaism" as if orthodoxy inherently equals reactionary. I've run into that mindset before but rarely so explicitly

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