Those Whom G*d Wishes...

These Israeli kids are playing the vaccination game.

The teachers pretend to vaccinate them, and then the kids are told to take their masks off and celebrate.

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— Daniel Kotzin (@danielkotzin) July 2, 2021

Judeo-Christianity Is Real!

On Sunday, many devout Jews will be gathering to pray at the gravesite of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Schneerson, on his Yahrtzeit. The Rebbe was an inspiring and transformative figure and great influence on my beloved late friend Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. Bless them both.

— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) June 11, 2021

More Judeo-Christianity

Reminder: You can catch me in conversation with Liel Leibovitz of @tabletmag, talking about tradition, community and continuity in the Jewish and Christian contexts.

Tuesday, June 1, at 7:30 Eastern, sign-up below. https://t.co/HO0Ndv5aWo

— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) May 26, 2021

Dr. Leon Kass on His Most Recent Book

You will rarely spend an hour more profitably than you will by listening to this fascinating interview of Leon Kass by Hope Leman. The subject is Dr. Kass's magisterial sudy of the Book of Exodus: *Founding God's Nation*.https://t.co/kRbxjSCkkv

— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) May 18, 2021

The New Right

Forget Judeo-Christian. How about Judeo-Christian-Muslim values?

.⁦⁦@SohrabAhmari⁩ grew up as a secular Muslim and is now a religious Catholic who believes that an ancient Jewish idea can restore American culture. Here’s my ⁦@mosaicmag⁩ conversation with him about why Americans must recover the sabbath. https://t.co/IS3kdWX0sU

— Jonathan Silver (@JonathanLSilver) May 14, 2021

The Tikvah Podcast: Sohrab Ahmari on Why Americans Must Recover the Sabbath https://t.co/ozVorR1Qb4

— Ricochet (@Ricochet) May 14, 2021

If we bring back blue laws, which day do we privilege? Sunday? Saturday? Friday? This "interfaith" multicultural conservatism is going nowhere. Even if there is a recognition in the law of the rights of workers to follow their religious conviction/conscience of not being forced to work on their religious day of rest, how can this be applied "fairly" to non-believers as well?

This Is Rather Based

More than what I expected from the source. How long before they're put on the SPLC hit list?

Many things we think of as Jewish actually stem from significant Christian influence, chief among those being the denial of Christ. In spite of this, it is commonly believed that the religion of the Hebrews is what is practiced by modern Jews. This could not be any less true.

— The New Columbia Movement (@NCMvmt) May 12, 2021

One Day First Things Will Go Out of Business

And deservedly so.

Rabbi Mark Gottlieb on a new book that makes the case for tradition in social-scientific and evolutionary termshttps://t.co/jaqnXQyCFq

— Matthew Schmitz (@matthewschmitz) May 11, 2021

Talmudic Judaism as a representative of "legitimate" tradition... laughable.

Judeo-Christian Conservative Cluelessness

No mention of feminism or cultural misandry, or of the sort of formation boys need besides "conversations centering on matters of substance." Professional conservatives are clueless. Laughably bad essay. Talk about serious things is necessary but I bet Christian talk about serious things won't be the same as Jewish talk about serious things. ,br />

During the pandemic, research shows that on the whole, young men in particular have found it difficult to cope.https://t.co/CSytoggkkm

— First Things (@firstthingsmag) December 29, 2020

"Judaism"

Hey friends with uteruses-- having a rather high anxiety moment. Do me a favor and tell me about how it's totally normal to be able to become pregnant for the first time after age 35.

— Rabbi Emily Cohen (@ThatRabbiCohen) December 24, 2020

Cucking on Free Speech

The Network Contagion Research Institute has published an important report on the online dissemination of anti-Semitic disinformation. Here's the text to the Foreword I wrote to the report.https://t.co/UwaGzMfTtH

— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) December 15, 2020

A Debate on Talmudic Judaism

This video could not possibly misrepresent Chanukah more egregiously.

Chanukah is not about “tikkun olam” or universalist notions of “fighting for justice.” The Chanukah story is one of Jewish particularism, traditionalism, and nationality repelling the forces of secularism. https://t.co/kxS83kFRrU

— Josh Hammer (@josh_hammer) December 11, 2020

Robert George on Jonathan Sacks

My tribute to Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. I am delighted that *Mosaic* has published it together with a tribute by my superstar former student Rabbi Meir Soloveichik.
https://t.co/doVXb07Nwy

— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) December 11, 2020

More Acquiescence by Roman Catholics to the Judeo-Christianity Lie

Beyond Chrismukkah | Church Life Journal | University of Notre Dame This is a lovely article by a colleague in Theology https://t.co/oimfSly2k2

— John Cavadini (@JohnCavadini) December 10, 2020

Some Will Find This Offensive

The Truthfulness of the Pre-1955 Good Friday Prayer for the Jews https://t.co/lpWRMLHFWM pic.twitter.com/ANlfY6XYBY

— NLM (@NLMblog) December 7, 2020

NLM

"Free-Market Capitalism" is Judeo-Christian

No less important than the value placed on work is Judaism’s positive attitude to the creation of wealth. From the archives:https://t.co/kVopP6O1NK

— First Things (@firstthingsmag) November 10, 2020

A warm remembrance and very gentle critique of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks by Rabbi Mark Gottliebhttps://t.co/xECLBGCVST

— Matthew Schmitz (@matthewschmitz) November 12, 2020

What Judeo-Christianity?

When Jews ask about ultimate reward and punishment, what are we really interested in? From the print edition:https://t.co/D5V11OYm9o

— First Things (@firstthingsmag) November 8, 2020

Does he make a correct generalization with respect to apostolic Christian views on Divine Judgment? And why should apostolic Christians care about what Pharisees believe about the afterlife, when they have gotten salvation wrong? The interfaith dialogue that characterized First Things from the beginning is over, as is any justification for Christians to participate in the liberal project to the undoing of their own culture.

Something Positive for Francis

Netanyahu: Yeah we know Jesus, he spoke Hebrew

Pope Francis: Aramaic pic.twitter.com/gXjxdOY6hJ

— Catholic Arena (@CatholicArena) October 27, 2020

But I bet Francis missed this:

Notes
1-Jesus didn't "speak" either; Hebrew & Aramaic were languages for the learned. Pple spoke (as today) dialects; Jesus prob. spoke a Galilean one.

2-Netanyahu did not call Jesus by his Heb. name יהושע (Yehoshua) or ישוע, but by ישו "Yeshu" used to stress foreignness. https://t.co/Hc8E1Ugasz

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) October 28, 2020

Voilahttps://t.co/hOgjvcjuTy

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) October 28, 2020

(Talmudic) Judaism?

"What Does Rabbinic Judaism Say About What Makes Jews and Gentiles Different?" - Michael Hoffman https://t.co/0CXCT1OTf2

— The Unz Review (@UnzReview) September 23, 2020

UR

Abrahamic Brethren

The Pharisees don't consider Christians such; why should Christians use the term as if it were a common bond? And who is the true child of Abraham?

In advance of the Jewish New Year, #RoshHashanah, we are wishing all our Abrahamic brethren every blessing for the New Year, and that the call of the Shofar may rouse all humanity to awaken to our better angels, to love for God and for our every neighbor.

— Elpidophoros (@Elpidophoros) September 18, 2020

Στο ξεκίνημα της Εβραϊκής Πρωτοχρονιάς #RoshHashanah, ευχόμαστε σε όλους τους εξ Αβραάμ αδελφούς μας κάθε ευλογία για το Νέο Έτος και το κάλεσμα του Shofar να αφυπνίσει όλη την ανθρωπότητα και να ξυπνήσει μέσα μας την αγάπη για το Θεό και για το διπλανό μας.

— Elpidophoros (@Elpidophoros) September 18, 2020

And they curse you 3 times a day in return. Openly https://t.co/rsSn3J7L8r

— J🍂(Autumn Theme) (@J_H_5) September 18, 2020

Related:

"But nowhere does Jesus or the Bible or 2,000 years of Sacred Tradition teach that Muslims are included in God's plan of salvation." https://t.co/vx7tZfkSEC
Can CMTV tell us what Jesus taught us about Muslims? I can't find that in my Bible.

— E. Michael Jones (@EMichaelJones1) September 16, 2020

Civnat Libs

Sacks talks about cultural revolution, but he blames the wrong causes (social media, which is more a symptom). The loss of a common culture is due in part to multiculturalism, which in turn has been exacerbated by immigration. The scale of mass population centers tends to degrade personality and culture, even if a veneer of social etiquette and naive trust can be sustained in a homogeneous population that already had that cultural capital (e.g. Japan, some European cities). George is wrong about the role of universities with respect to character formation. Paideia needs to start much earlier. And most of American higher ed (including Princeton) cannot be trusted with any share of this task, in so far as it won't repudiate liberalism or feminism. Aristotle recognizes there are differences between male and female excellence as men and women are different, and the education appropriate to each sex is different. Academics are some of the worst male feminists, possibly because they are naive or have low SSH status. One final point: George identifies as the ultimate foundation for character formation the (Judeo-Christian) view of man being made in the image and likeness of God. He also recognizes the Roman Catholic Church has "shot itself in the foot." But he doesn't recognize the extent of the ecclesial problem (e.g. institutional acceptance of feminism). Nor can there be a "Judeo-Christian" evangelization of peoples. And, again, Christianity by itself is not a solution to a multiethnic state in danger of disintegrating.