Essays, notes, poems, and prayers
Writing
Most of this started as a Facebook post and got a second life here. Every piece carries its date in two calendars.
- 5 February 2025ז׳ בשבט תשפ״הNote
Ethnic Cleansing Is a Bad Idea
POTUS's plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza is a very, very bad idea. It's immoral, illegal, impractical, and ineffective in securing Israel. Israeli leaders should be distancing themselves from this dumpster...
- 4 February 2025ו׳ בשבט תשפ״הNote
It Can’t Happen Here
I was concerned about the welfare of American Jewish communities when the level of antisemitism was holding at semi-random vandalism, physical assaults, and widespread bloodlibels about Israel. The people at...
- 2 February 2025ד׳ בשבט תשפ״הNote
Jerusalem Gothic
An elderly man gets on the bus with a vase of flowers, meowing as he places the vase on the seat. Still meowing, he looks around, as if daring someone...
- 1 February 2025ג׳ בשבט תשפ״הNote
The Only Horizontal Society
In a world obsessed with hierarchies and the supremacy of some people over other people, one small nation stands alone as a horizontal society. Flawed, imperfect, very much a divine...
- 30 January 2025א׳ בשבט תשפ״הNote
Cultivate Yourself
Culture and values. People talk a lot about culture and values. Almost always from a collectivist viewpoint - almost never in regards to the personal culture, the subjective values, of...
- 30 January 2025א׳ בשבט תשפ״הNote
This. Deal.
Meanwhile here in the Land: "Israel is about to free 110 Palestinian prisoners, including major terror convicts, nobody knows where they are going" (h/t Times of Israel) But hey, we're...
- 27 January 2025כ״ז בטבת תשפ״הNote
Every Day Is Holocaust Remembrance Day
Every day is Holocaust remembrance day. We live in an indelibly post-Auschwitz world. There is no going back. Auschwitz proved the depths to which man may sink if he rejects...
- 26 January 2025כ״ו בטבת תשפ״הNote
DEI Was the Smokescreen
Restoring a meritocracy by re-allowing discrimination across federal departments, organizations, and contractors? Hwut 🧐 For some political groups (that have now united under POTUS and his party), complaints about the...
- 26 January 2025כ״ו בטבת תשפ״הNote
The Rock and the Tree
The Rock and the Tree: An Ethical Debate of Structures and Survival Tree: "I am a living, breathing organism, composed of countless cells that work together in harmony. My vascular...
- 26 January 2025כ״ו בטבת תשפ״הNote
Quantum States and Spectra
In case you too were wondering... "Quantum states can be mapped to a spectrum model, depending on the context and the way the quantum system is described. In quantum mechanics,...
- 25 January 2025כ״ה בטבת תשפ״הNote
Condemn the Terrorists, Help the Terrorists
Withdrawing security protection from subordinates-turned-critics now targeted by the Iranian regime for their public former roles in pursuing anti-Iranian policy during the first term. Halting refugee flights for refugees targeted...
- 25 January 2025כ״ה בטבת תשפ״הNote
The Healthy Tissue Is There
"I see the rot more clearly than I see the healthy tissue." The healthy tissue is there The image of the Creator yearning to breathe free, to come through in...
- 25 January 2025כ״ה בטבת תשפ״הNote
To My Friends Who Voted for Him
I know many people who voted for the current POTUS. Family, friends, colleagues. All for a variety of different reasons, all supporting this piece of POTUS agenda but not that...
- 25 January 2025כ״ה בטבת תשפ״הNote
Project 2025 Is the Dominant Force
The POTUS executive orders and other executive actions from the past week show two things: 1) Project 2025 is absolutely a dominant force in this second term. Many policies and...
- 24 January 2025כ״ד בטבת תשפ״הNote
How Fascist Rhetoric Works
Morning musing (extremely controversial, yes, but read the whole thing carefully): I don't follow the news cycle religiously or play the partisan political game/culture war currently strangling American political discourse....
- 24 January 2025כ״ד בטבת תשפ״הNote
Musk’s Holocaust Jokes
Surprise surprise Musk followed up his dogwhistle at the inauguration with more White Supremacist Twitter content. Holocaust jokes, this time. Greenblatt and ADL condemned his Nazi BS, btw. 🤷
- 21 January 2025כ״א בטבת תשפ״הNote
Pick Your Shots
Among many other things, Elon Musk is a white supremacist and a white collar fascist. There will be so many times to call him out, with incontrovertible receipts, over the...
- 21 January 2025כ״א בטבת תשפ״הNote
Keep Your Eye on the Ball
"Somehow the story of yesterday end up being "what was that gesture?" and not "all the J6 insurrectionists were pardoned." I know we like to fight about signification, but there's...
- 21 January 2025כ״א בטבת תשפ״הNote
Grace for Elon
Re: ADL's response - I mean, what are you gonna do, call Elon Musk a Nazi on Inauguration Day? Who knows what Musk meant to do - we saw what...
- 20 January 2025כ׳ בטבת תשפ״הNote
Schrodinger’s Influencer
The afternoon light poured through the window like the universe's shrug—a lukewarm reminder that existence was still ongoing. A ginger cat, who had once declared himself the ruler of a...