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Elisheva Avital

3 years

It is not the law that you must develop a stance on every issue, or talk publicly about every issue for which you've developed a stance

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5 years

Today is the 80th anniversary of #Kristallnacht . A personal story: My grandfather fought in WWII. He never spoke about it, so we didnt know much about his time in the service, but based on the patches on his uniform, we think he did something in intel.

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When you're old enough, David Hogg, run for office.

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“This is a time for our country to take a look in the mirror and realize there’s a serious issue here.” High School Senior David Hogg to @GStephanopoulos in Parkland, Florida:

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Since weirdos made Columbine trend I’ll take this opportunity to remind you: while the media treated it as a result of bullying, the shooters were actually Nazis.

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You tell us "never again." I'm not so sure. #Kristallnacht #kristallnacht80

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These are behind-the-scenes pics of happy Nazis on a rampage, presumably on Kristallnacht. What they were doing was COMPLETELY LEGAL.

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The first few pages have pictures of Jewish homes being ransacked; people are in robes and pajamas. Several are bleeding.

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For those who have asked, I forgot to add: we have NO idea how he came to own these.

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The next part takes place two years ago. He died, and I'm cleaning out his house with my mom and sister. We find a photo album. When I open it, I feel like it might burn a hole in my hands.

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Here, some jolly Nazis stealing Jewish holy books, later to be burned.

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At this point, I take out some of the pictures and turn them over. This is what I find: November 10, 1938. Nuremburg. A shiver goes through me. When I google the names, I find they were Nazi photojournalists.

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This is what the synagogue in Fürth looked like after the fire. Thank you to @shakenbeck who pointed me to the right one.

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Then they pour accelerant, and set the whole thing ablaze. I had never before seen pictures of a shul on fire from the inside.

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Then they get to the holy ark, and pry it open to steal the silver and burn the Torah. At this point I feel tears welling up in my eyes.

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The next section is like a gut-punch. They enter a synagogue, overturn everything. You can see prayer shawls strewn everywhere.

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Now we move on to the stores:

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2 years

@AlexThomp this logic is insane. because overturning roe wasnt politically polarizing? and we trust the supreme court so much now?

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5 years

My father was an amateur photographer and I found this crazy shot among his things. Likely taken in NYC in the 1960’s.

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5 years

Update: I've been in touch with several Holocaust memorial institutions, so thanks to all who helped with that. At the moment, the decision about what to do with them will be left up to the family member who has possession of the album. I'll let you all know what happens to them.

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5 years

Your staff assaulted and traumatized Jazmin Headley AND her infant. She's been sitting in Rikers for days while you sit around and feel disturbed. This is the Jeff Flake of responses.

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This was a disturbing incident. Like anyone who’s watched this video, I have a lot of questions about how this was handled. NYPD & HRA will get to the bottom of what happened.

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4 years

Idk why so many people assume I haven’t read about this. I’ve read plenty. I don’t need your explanations. I’m not putting a book’s worth of nuance into a tweet.

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4 years

"How many lives must be endangered to justify the closing of all of our religious institutions? The answer: one." -from a letter from the Rabbinical Council of Bergen County

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4 years

Columbine survivor Richard Castaldo needs help. There’s an email at the end of this to reach out

Community Reaches Out To Columbine Survivor, Rich Castaldo, In Need Of Help

For Richard Castaldo, life has not been easy since that nightmare called Columbine.

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@vpt_ @ghostoflenin @cortney_dc @HolocaustMuseum Guys i was kidding, I’m happy to talk to any historians who contact me about them

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2 years

When a public figure is accused of rape or other forms of sexual abuse, be aware that the way you react is communicating to your loved ones- especially kids- whether or not you're a safe person to talk to.

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1 year

It is upon us: my Hebrew and English birthdays have aligned. Behold, the megabirthday

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@ASlavitt I'm 173 days from my first symptoms and 168 from my positive test. My lungs STILL hurt, I have unexplained nerve pain, brain fog, extreme fatigue. Doctors basically shrug bc they don't know what to do.

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2 years

It would be good if people who have zero knowledge of the blood-soaked jewish history in ukraine would not glibly refer to zelensky as "a white guy"

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5 years

@vpt_ @cortney_dc @HolocaustMuseum This website is free

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5 years

Thanks again to @shakenbeck , this actually appears more similar to the interior photos. Adass Jisroel in Nürnberg. The scrollwork on the bimah is pretty unique.

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Mit einem neu konzipierten Rundgang erinnert die Stadt an die Untaten der Nationalsozialisten und der Neonazis

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2 years

Don’t have kids until you’re prepared for your worst flaws to become someone’s origin story

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6 years

@OwlsAsylum uhhh he didn't hide her, she's famous

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@cortney_dc @HolocaustMuseum I have- I wrote them a note through the contact form on their website and never heard back.

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4 years

@theferocity HE THOUGHT HE WAS GIVING HER A FREEBIE OMG

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2 years

I've seen a lot of Black people frustrated that it took antisemitism for Kanye to experience consequences, but many were silent when he said racist things against Black people. This is a totally valid thing and there's some nuance here I think people should explore.

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3 years

Please just get vaccinated because @edyong209 deserves to write weird animal stories and live his best life

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4 years

This brought tears to my eyes. If you understand the experience of Russian Jews, this was a very heavy line.

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Alexander Vindman tells his father not to worry: “I will be fine for telling the truth.”

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2 years

get in loser we're gonna worship idols

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5 years

The thing about weighted blankets is that they ruin you for normal blankets forever

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3 years

I have no time for people who are performatively religious and personally cruel

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@aharonson28 same. all four of my grandparents, including the one i talk about in this thread, fled poland and germany as children before the war.

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Hi, new followers! I mostly post current-events stuff, things I think are funny, and occasional parenting stuff. I won't engage with hate or trolling.

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it was made very clear last night that either the majority of people are unaware of the abuse allegations against brad pitt, or everyone has collectively decided to look the other way

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Quinta Brunson cutting off her own Golden Globes speech because she saw Brad Pitt in the audience…a MOOD “Comedy brings people together. Comedy gives us all the same laugh-- hey, Brad Pitt!”

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4 years

@SilverD90001857 @StorySlug I was in 9th grade, but even initial reporting noted it was Hitlers birthday

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4 years

@yashar how can a doctor participate in what seems like an obvious facilitation of abusive control

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3 years

You: can you explain rabbinic Judaism to me? Me:

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4 years

I’ve deleted every tweet I try to write about this but i will just say: it would be great if people would stop killing Jews

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I was just called a fucking jew at the town pool, stay cool @NJGov

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5 years

The outpouring from that thread is a little overwhelming. It's the first early shabbat of the season, so I may not be able to go through all your replies today, but I see them!

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5 years

@marinamaral2 I've gotten so many notifications that twitter can't even load them- please DM me!

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@HistorySleuth Thanks! Please DM me, I am overwhelmed with requests at the moment but will definitely get to everything eventually.

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For all the people who pointed out that I should call it “reichspogromnacht” maybe think twice before you instruct a Jew how to talk abt their own genocide

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2 years

There is no English word as versatile as “nu”

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5 years

Also, since this seems to be a common misunderstanding, my grandfather was NOT A NAZI. We’re Jewish.

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@Daniel_Sugarman No one has ever seen them before- and we have no idea how we came to own them. If any historians see this and know things, hit me up

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3 years

@ddale8 winning "michigan man of the year" and the "bay of pigs award," two awards that do not exist

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5 years

This entire #FyreFraud is

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In an odd twist, it seems that some people attempted to intentionally mislead me into thinking the photos were already well known and archived. Pro-tip: don't lie to well-meaning strangers for no conceivable benefit

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@das_penman Its also weird to choose this line of excuse bc she said several years ago during the COVID lockdown that its easy for her bc shes a homebody and its difficult to get him to stay home and spend time with her

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2 years

If you’re an Orthodox Jew: ask yourself if you support policies and politicians that promote רחמנות ביישנות and גמילת חסדים

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"Our tradition teaches that creation originated with one individual person to teach us that one person represents an entire world; saving one life is tantamount to saving an entire world."

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this is your reminder that it's perfectly acceptable to call it a menorah, stop it

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5 years

@psillin Yes, of course.

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@amandamull this is why it's great that maintenance phase has no ads

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5 years

Pseudo-update: I am still investigating the provenance of the photos with the help of several historians. It seems they may already be archived elsewhere, and I can't give them to any one newspaper to publish. Will update further when it's all ironed out.

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People are all over TikTok correcting anyone who says “menorah” instead of chanukiyah and I’m there yelling at every single one I come across

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The family (not me, higher-ups) have decided to donate the collection to Yad Vashem. I also learned some more about how we came to have them.

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@Nicole_Cliffe My nephew is in med school and it has become my mission in life to use my medical horror stories to teach him to take women patients seriously (it's working)

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3 years

In the annals of depressing text exchanges with my child

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@TheAtlantic @JeffreyGoldberg @tanehisicoates IT'S HERE

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4 years

The Marine Corps only banned Confederate flags *last week* and it was first branch to do it. Well past time. The Confederacy is gone, man (Clip from @KenBurns Vietnam)

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@Yair_Rosenberg @jsr3354 @WajahatAli

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@rgay This is the kind of garbage that lets ignored tumors grow for years.

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2 years

Can I just point out the irony of someone anonymously campaigning to fire public school teachers when they’ve definitely never set foot in a public school

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My grandfather was a counter-intelligence interrogator, and he interrogated Julius Streicher, the publisher of Der Stürmer. Apparently, they were given permission to "liberate" basically whatever they wanted from these homes.

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OK, I've untangled a few things. The municipal archives in Nürnberg have two of the same photos I have, and it seems the rest have never been seen before. Now I'll take all this info back to my family for them to mull what to do with them. (It's not up to me.)

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This is a public announcement for all gentiles: assume everything a jewish org tweets in this 24 hour period is intended as a joke

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I’ve known Rabbi Eisenman well since I was a kid, and he has never once disappointed me.

Powerful Letter from Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman of Passaic about the Chaim Walder Case - VINnews

Today is Tuesday the 24th of Teves 5782 and December 28th, 2021 Join our WhatsApp group Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email I could have ignored it, as most are. I could have sensationalized it as...

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@peterbakernyt are you not tired of doing this? our country is not a game

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tbh i would love if more Orthodox Jews would be half as mad at Trump's deranged antisemitism as they are at Kanye

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@kenlowery @mattdpearce @chrislhayes it's heartening to see people react to insane ideas with ridicule rather than credulous debate of pros and cons. the president was able to sneak a debate over arming teachers into our discourse because of everyone else's politeness.

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"...Please understand that it is possible that we will see a divergence in our process from that of other parts of society...We intend to continue to be 'machmir' and cautious, as is unquestionably mandated by Jewish law."

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In addition to these photos and some other memorabilia (an airman's compass doohickey, a few other things) he took a bound copy of every issue from the first year of Der Stürmer. He donated that to Yad Vashem while he was alive.

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@kylegriffin1 Yes, his position that racial sensitivity training is racist against white people

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this has gotten progressively less funny with the passage of time.

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As of now, that's all I know, folks!

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@JewishWonk @mjs_DC this is a font crime, alex

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@JonathanBenCavy It’s striking how deliberately it was ignored

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The funny thing about the lie that Jews control the world is that our dearest wish is to be left alone Lesson of Chanukah? Please leave us alone Lesson of Purim? Please leave us alone Lesson of Pesach? please leave us alone

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3. When a Black person makes racist statements about Black people, it's treated as an inside issue that non Black people should stay out of. People are rightly cautious about speaking for or over Black voices. This is very tricky to navigate.

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@Maddie80808 @jayckb @fund_human @joshobrien77 @kathrynfiona @SethKlamann Saved by the bell

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@nhannahjones @Rave__Dubin It's especially dishonest in light of the fact that people use the Irish slaves myth specifically to minimize black suffering.

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I’d vote for you, David Hogg

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@kristenlanum @Meadbymead The reason doesn’t matter. It’s no one’s business

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@JewishWonk did you notice how she laughs and then the laugh... goes away

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This isn’t a government account. I’m nobody. I don’t owe anyone my attention. If I want to depollute my feed, I will.

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Thank you to everyone who reached out. For those who didn’t realize, I am a Sabbath observer so I was disconnected for the last 25 hrs. I appreciate all the interest and will get through all the messages- I’m not ignoring anyone!

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