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Shulim Leifer

4 months

Hey Folks! I appeared on @FranciskaKosman ’s podcast to talk about some of the Abuse Survivor Advocacy work I’ve been doing, and a recent case I was involved in. I’d love if you gave it a listen ❤️

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3 years

Folks on here with kids: how often do you tell them “I love you”?

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3 years

Every school or camp I ever went to had non-negotiable vaccine mandates…. How is this even controversial in 2021

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🚨 HUGE 🚨: Satmar Rebbe, Rabbi Aron Teitelbaum in a speech today calls the decision to back @KathyHochul an “obvious one” and sharply excoriates the phenomenon of “Trumpism that took over our communities” as the reason others didn’t see it this way; says this must be eradicated.

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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but: Gentile Right-Wing Demagogues who claim that they are ‘Pro-Israel’ are NOT ‘friends’ of The Jews.

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@karenkho @chick_in_kiev I think she tried to make him fear for his life as punishment for daring to talk to her out of turn. She let the mask slip, if you will.

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3 years

Do you know what was exactly like the Holocaust? The Holocaust.

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People who bring up Ukraine’s history of antisemitism aren’t lying, but are folks aware that Tsarist Russia didn’t even *contain any Jews* at all due to them being banned and confined to the ‘pale of settlement’?

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My only daughter (she is 9) gave me this mug as a Chanukah gift tonight and I think my heart is going to burst 🥹💕

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2 years

I don’t know the psychological term for it but I feel like a sustained state of emotional emergency for 7 straight years is not healthy

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Hot Take: The Ancient Sages of Judaism were much more practical in their treatment of sexuality, and the puritanical obsession with purity we now have is a relatively modern construct.

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2 years

This is fantastically done and a great public service. You love to see it 👏🏼

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@KarlBode The guy who sold twitter to Elon and then tried to sell the sale to us, but then launched a competitor where he said he longer trusts Elon, can’t stop himself from continuing to indulge Elon.

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4 years

Chasidish kids should get a full, qualified & legally mandated secular education to go along with the Torah education.

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2 years

ATTENTION ALL JEWS: Today is Monday, not Sunday.

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2 years

If only I could tweet a smell… ♨️🥰

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Live your life in such a way that it’s a not a public service if you die.

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2 years

It’s time for some serious soul-searching when hiring a trans person causes a bigger community upheaval and crisis at a school than hiring a sex abuser ever did. #FoodForThought

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2 years

My wife Chayala and I are celebrating our 13th wedding anniversary today 🥰🥳

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1 year

Anyone who has a problem with a Child Sex Abuse survivor only speaking out when their abuser dies, on the grounds that “they can’t defend themselves”, should consider that neither could the victim.

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6 months

I am no military expert, but *this* doesn’t look at all like self-defense

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Israeli troops took over a Palestinian mosque in Jenin and have filmed themselves chanting Jewish prayers on the mosque loudspeaker.

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3 years

My 5th grade son’s entry in his school’s menorah competition 🥺🥲

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I read this on Shabbos.

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@AmbassadorTai @wto Wow @BillGates is having THE WORST week

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@Whitey_83 @rafi_dot_net Omg it’s literally a bug-zapper light

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@RSuzanneKelly @Slerner212 @RepJackKimble Here is the video of him saying it

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@jga41agher @42rebelheart Speaking of cons…

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2 years

This is how it feels looking into the fridge during the week leading up to Pesach:

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3 years

People who hit their kids because they were hit and they “turned out fine” should realize that believing it’s ok to be hit is itself the most insidious wound having been beaten leaves.

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don't fucking hit your kids. not ever. never. for no reason. don't do it!

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2 years

WANTED: A definitive psak by a leading posek clarifying that disclosing abuse is not in fact Loshon Hora. Asking for everyone.

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1 year

Wishing everyone a very Happy Chanukah, from our family to yours 💙🕎❤️

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2 years

Any religion which takes the position that recognizing others’ rights diminishes theirs is simply making excuses for bigotry.

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3 years

@TheRealHoarse @benshapiro No can do. He’s just The Little Engine That Couldn’t, Hoarse.

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10 months

I’m no longer tweeting. From now on I’m excommunicating.

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2 years

Happy Purim from our family to yours!💙 #Purim2022

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1 year

Become ungovernable

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3 years

I want to ask everyone to please consider not sending around the videos or pictures of bodies & other horrible sights. Some of us would rather not see them.

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1 year

The right-wing owner of a hate account, who is Chabad, accuses her *targets* of being in a “cult”. RIP irony.

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1 year

I’m gonna go ahead and assume that if you collect Hitler artifacts, it’s not because you hated him.

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10 months

A lot of people don’t know this, but the real reason Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed was because they outlawed & punished feeding the hungry

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Houston Food Not Bombs (which has been around since 1994) has now been ticketed at least 30 times for sharing free food with unhoused neighbors. Each ticket is $2000! It specifically says “feed homeless” on the citation.

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2 years

Tell me your objection to LGBTQ humans that doesn’t rely on placing *your* religious views above others’ personal circumstances challenge

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1 year

Today is our oldest child & apple of my eye’s 12th birthday 🥹 To say I’m proud of him would be the understatement of the decade. He was born early (32 weeks) and weighed only 2lbs12oz after birth. Now he’s the most spectacular boy I could have ever imagined 💗 God is good 🙏🏼

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2 years

TSA Agent: “how are you” Me: Boruch Hashem! TSAA: “Boruch Hu?” Me: that’s right

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To be frozen by ADD means that the thought of doing *anything* that’s NOT a distraction is terrifying on a molecular level.

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2 years

Attention Moderneh Yidden: The singular for hamantashen is ‘hamentash’. No ‘en’. Thanks for coming to my TedTalk.

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*taps mic* SOMEONE WHO RAPES COMMITS MORE THAN ‘ADULTERY’

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THE CHALLAHS CAME OUT INCREDIBLE 🙌🏼🤩🤤

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2 years

mood

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3 years

Cutting this one’s hair for the first time ever today 😩🥺🥰

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1 year

I really wonder if Ch*ya R*ichik supports gender reassignment surgery at 8 days old, or is it *just* the LGBTQ+ community’s kids she needs to save from “mutilation”

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2 years

Praying for a non-violent ending to the horror in Colleyville, Texas. I will not be tweeting until the situation is resolved.

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8 months

I lack the words to convey the horror and grief I feel over the carnage in Israel, or my disgust at those celebrating it.

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2 years

If you haven’t seen this there is still time yet to repent and correct it

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11 months

Wait until you all hear what happens at men’s mikvas every week 😳

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11 months

A Sefer Torah’s crown? In honor of a convicted sex-abuser? They’ve gone full-blown Idol Worship:

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WATCH: Rabbi Katz from the Israel Heritage Foundation says prayer for President Donald Trump

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3 years

I feel sick right now. Praying for everyone at Meron. 😰

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1 year

My 4-year-old son is watching ‘Puss in Boots’ and look how I found him 😂

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@SpiroAgnewGhost Does the EU hate free speech in America??

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3 years

The most goyish part of the entire Thanksgiving might be sitting down to dinner before 6pm. Inconceivable for Yids.

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1 year

Happy Chanukah, Good Shabbos & Good Chodesh fam! 🕎🔥💙

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2 years

Tu B’shvat is ‘date’ night in the Leifer household

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2 years

PTSD is not exclusively a battlefield affliction!

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2 years

I’ve been struggling (of course, I’m a ❄️, after all) with what to say about the @nytimes piece by @brianmrosenthal & @elizashapiro . The emotions are too raw, the pressure to nail the pithy prose that might resonate too great. Instead I will RT what I’ve been saying for years. ❤️

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3 years

“The Yeshiva education issue” is that Yeshivas illegally withhold a secular education from their students, leaving them illiterate & ignorant. Those same Yeshivas ALSO take in many millions of $$ from City, State and Federal funds meant for educating the kids. #YeshivaGate

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Rabbi David Niederman told the Forward that the “consensus among the community leaders was to support the candidacy of Mr. Yang because of this refreshing approach to the Yeshiva education issue.”

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You have not experienced true schadenfreude until you watch Bethany Mandel get asked to explain in her own words what ‘Woke’ means 💀

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LOL: Briahna Joy Gray BREAKS the brain of Rising guest Bethany Mandel by asking her to define "wokeness"

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3 years

Talking about bedtime with my 2 year old is like telling a Republican that he lost an election.

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3 years

Some words in @NYDailyNews on an issue I care very deeply about. I hope you read & find it useful.

Stop rationalizing child neglect: Many yeshivas fail thousands of kids, end of story

It is New York’s open secret that many ultra-Orthodox yeshivas provide little to no secular education, leaving students without the skills and knowledge needed for an independent future. Agai…

www.nydailynews.com

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1 year

I just paid a shiva call to a friend mourning his daughter. I captured his own father singing הַנְשָמָה לָך וְהַגוּף פְּעֳלָך חוּסָה עַל עָמָלָך Translation: “The soul is Yours, and the body is Your handiwork , have mercy on the fruit of Your labors” Not a dry eye in the room.

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I’m trying to brace myself for hearing the names and and seeing the faces of the victims that will inevitably be made public. I don’t know how to cope. We are gripped by unspeakable horror.

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2 years

We have a row of beautiful sunflowers planted alongside the Russian mission in Riverdale:

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2 years

Thank you Hashem

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Praying for a non-violent ending to the horror in Colleyville, Texas. I will not be tweeting until the situation is resolved.

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Confession: when we don’t have guests for Thanksgiving, we roast a whole chicken instead of turkey because it tastes better and we’re a small family. I just zoom in when taking the bird photo and no one can tell the difference.

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3 years

Why don’t they stop?

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Lara compares Dr. Fauci to Josef Mengele

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Once R’ Chaim of Brisk was asked what the function, the job description if you will, of a rabbi is. R’ Chaim replied: "To redress the grievances of those who are abandoned & alone, to protect the dignity of the poor, and to save the oppressed from the hands of his oppressor."

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@rafaelshimunov That’s like the pope trying to claim hitchens as the ‘good old times’

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Happy Purim from our family to yours! 🎭💙

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Happy Purim from Leifer Productions🎭🥳💙

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@nycsouthpaw It’s because he’s a big oaf sitting at a teeny tiny table and looks like he’s on the set of Alice In Wonderland.

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@SEichenstein @nytimes You’re a liar. You saw all kinds of hitting in school. I remember you. I beg you don’t make me spill tea.

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Asking people whose human rights are being violated “why don’t they just leave” everything they know and believe in when, they cry out about the ways their society fails them, strikes me as cruel indifference - not to mention intellectual laziness

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overall im delighted with how my story landed, but frustrated by the "why don't orthodox women just leave" comments. why don't YOU leave your family, your friends, your town, the culture you've known all your life, maybe even your first language, under threat of losing your kids?

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The transition from sneering “they will be divorced in 6 months” to begging “please I have kids” is PEAK bully 🤌🏼

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Now she’s worried about her children?? Now? After spending three days tormenting these two women right after their wedding? GTFOH

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2 years

The difference between a Baptism and a Bris is that *we* have skin in the game 👼🏼

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3 years

If you didn’t have a rebbe who literally and physically broke your or your classmates’ bones during your elementary Yeshiva years, you really have no say in whether we need reforms when those who did go through this say we do. This is what #YeshivaGate is

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“You exaggerate to make us look bad, hater!” I’m sneered at, as they unashamedly arrange ‘challah bakes’ in support of accused Child Rapists:

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Healthcare as a commodity is inherently unethical.

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Do gentiles also have a holiday during which bowel movements are a perfectly common topic of conversation? #Pesach2023

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Shmuley Boteach always did care more about his lucrative friendships with powerful goyim that he does about Jews. This man is unserious:

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Calling Robert Kennedy Jr Antisemitic After his COVID Musings is Deeply Unfair

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Anyone shocked that a frum person could be an unhinged right wing maniac has clearly not been checking WhatsApp statuses for the last 6 years.

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@jga41agher @42rebelheart Speaking of cons…

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Through my sex abuse victim advocacy work, I have learned that it is quite common for women trying to obtain an Orthodox divorce to be sexually propositioned by one or more of the rabbis involved in exchange for “help” with the process (the implication of declining being clear)

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What is the connection between the erasure of women and agunot? WATCH

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Yesterday was a banner day in the Leifer household. My oldest, who is 12, sat for an exam on a full chapter of Talmud (perek Hakones) at which he recited the entire thing verbatim from memory, AND his team won the championship for their age group at flag football league.

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I AM PRO *LIFE* THAT’S WHY I OPPOSE GOVERNMENT EXECUTION OF HUMANS ALREADY *BORN*

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One abuse survivor I interviewed this year keeps a list of chasidish men who sexually abused him before adulthood. It has over 60 names on it.

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Normalize saying “my health” without feeling the need to qualify with “mental” 😌

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@WhitlockJason Heroes don’t “stand down” cuz their feeling are hurt. Delete your account.

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✨BEHOLD: THE PLATONIC IDEAL OF LATKE ✨

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Fact Check: NYS has a lower violent crime & murder rate than Fla.

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“If Lee Zeldin gets into office he will be a law and order governor,” @RonDeSantisFL says also calling himself a “law and order governor.”

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#SlavaUkraini @benjaminwittes

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#NewProfilePic

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If *I* ran a nonprofit for survivors of sexual abuse in the Jewish community, I simply would NOT pose for photos shoulder to shoulder with an alleged Jewish sexual predator 🤌🏼🤷🏻‍♂️